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Stuart Fairchild is an outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds with the 38th overall selection in the 2017 Draft. He was their 2nd round pick and their 3rd pick overall. He played his college ball at Wake Forest. After beating up on pitching in the ACC, the Reds sent him to Billings after the draft. While there he hit .303 with 12 stolen bases.
Fairchild completed his Wake Forest collegiate career as a three-time All-ACC pick, All-American, and second-round MLB Draft selection. He had his best season in his junior year when he was a consensus first team All-American, finishing the season with a .360 average, 19 doubles, 17 home runs, 67 RBIs and 21 stolen bases. He started all 63 games and recorded 94 hits, a mark which ranks tied for sixth all-time, led the ACC and ranked fourth in the country. Fairchild also led the ACC with 166 total bases and finished in the top five in the league in runs (65), average (.360), RBIs (67) and slugging (.645)
In 3 seasons at Wake Forest, Fairchild batted .334, making 176 starts and totaling 53 doubles, four triples, 27 home runs, 155 RBIs, 230 hits, and went 47-of-57 in stolen-base attempts. His 53 doubles rank tied for seventh in program history. Fairchild also had two error-free seasons in the outfield and finished with a .992 career fielding percentage.
In 2019, Fairchild split the season between Class A Daytona and Class AA Chattanooga. The talented outfielder ranked among the organization’s minor league leaders in doubles (29, 4th), extra-base hits (44, T4th), total bases (177, 6th), HR (12, T7th), RBI (54, T7th), walks (44, 9th) and runs (57, T10th). Following the season, Fairchild played for Glendale in the prestigious Arizona Fall League where he tore it up. (9g, .353, 4 2b, 6rbi, 1sb). Following the 2019 season, Fairchild was rated one of the organization’s top prospects by Baseball America (8th) and MiLB.com (16th). He also entered the 2020 season rated by Baseball America the player in the Reds’ minor league system with the best strike zone discipline. For his stellar effort, he was invited to Reds Major League Training Camp on January 10th, 2020.
The featured Dove Tail Baseball Bat was game used by Stuart Fairchild in 2020 at the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Instructional League. After the completion of the regular season and alternate training sites, most player development staffs turned their attention to instructional league play. In the past, instructional leagues were populated by new draftees, recent international signings and players at the bottom rungs of their organizational ladder. In 2020 however, in an attempt to make up for lost time due to the pandemic, it was expanded to include many more players. D-backs farm director Josh Barfield said about Fairchild “Just a very mature player, he has great at-bats, hits the ball well. He’s pretty polished already and not that far off.” Fairchild has signed the Bat and added “Game Used” in black. The Bat measures 33.5 and is shattered with a huge piece missing!
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