Andrew Benintendi is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on July 6, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. In the 2016 ALDS, he swatted his first postseason home run against the Indians’ Trevor Bauer.
Benintendi attended Madeira High School in Madeira, Ohio. As a senior, he batted .564 with 12 home runs, 57 runs batted in (RBIs), and 38 stolen bases for the Mustangs baseball team, and was the ABCA/Rawlings National High School Player of the Year and Ohio Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year. He finished his high school career with an Ohio-record 199 career runs scored. He also played high school basketball, earning 2011-12 Cincinnati Enquirer Division III Co-Player of the Year honors and setting school records in career points (1,753) and season points (638), career 3-pointers (180), and points per game in a season (25.5). Benintendi was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 31st round of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft, but he did not sign.
Benintendi was drafted by the Boston Red Sox with the seventh overall selection in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Red Sox, receiving a $3.6 million signing bonus. Benintendi made his professional debut with the Lowell Spinners of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League. Andrew finished the 2015 season playing 19 games for the Class A Greenville Drive going 26/74 (.351) and posting an OPS of 1.011. He began the 2016 season with the Salem Red Sox of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League, and received a promotion to the Portland Sea Dogs of the Class AA Eastern League on May 15.
He was born to parents Chris and Jill Benintendi. He has sisters named Olivia and Lily.
He played college baseball for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, where he was named SEC Player of the Year and Baseball American College Player of the Year after leading the SEC in batting average, home runs and on-base percentage. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in 2013, but did not sign with the organization.
Andrew Sebastian Benintendi (born July 6, 1994), nicknamed “Benny”, is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Arkansas Razorbacks of the University of Arkansas. The Red Sox selected Benintendi in the first round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2016. Listed at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and 170 pounds (77 kg), he bats and throws left-handed.
