Ernesto Mejía

Saitama Seibu Lions – No. 99

First baseman

Born: December 2, 1985
Guanare, Venezuela

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

NPB debut

May 15, 2014, for the Saitama Seibu Lions

Teams

Saitama Seibu Lions (2014–present) (NPB)

Ernesto Antonio Mejía [meh-HEE-ah] (born December 2, 1985) is a Venezuelan first baseman for the Saitama Seibu Lions of the Pacific League. Listed at 6' 5", 245 lb., he bats and throws right handed.^[1]

Career

Mejía was signed by the Braves as a non-drafted free agent on July 8, 2002, and started his minor league career with the GCL Braves rookie team in 2005. But he spent six full seasons in the minors, playing also for the Kansas City Royals system (2010), before reaching Triple-A level with the Gwinnett Braves in 2012.

Mejía led the circuit in RBI (92), hits (150) and total bases (256), was second both in SLG (.517) and at-bats (489), and tied for second in home runs (24), ending third in extra-bases (57), fourth in OPS (.858), fifth in runs (72) and eight in batting average (.298), while tying for sixth in both doubles (32) and games played (126). Mejía earned the International League Rookie of the Year distinction as well as the Postseason All-Star team. The All-Star nod is his sixth All-Star selection. He also became the third consecutive Gwinnett Braves player to claim the award for the league's top rookie, joining Freddie Freeman (2010) and Julio Teherán (2011).^[2]

Mejía was released by the Braves on April 26, 2014 so that he could sign with the Saitama Seibu Lions.^[3] Mejía led NPB's Pacific League with 34 home runs in 2014, finishing in a tie for the top spot with Takeya Nakamura.

References

↑ "– Ernesto Mejia profile". Milb.com. January 1, 2012. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
↑ Lezotte, Dave. "– Mejia Captures IL Rookie of the Year Award". Milb.com. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
↑ First Baseman Ernesto Mejia Released from Braves Roster

External links

Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors), or Pura Pelota (VPBL stats)

Saitama Seibu Lions current roster

First squad	00 Daichi Mizuguchi 0 Shogo Kimura 1 Takumi Kuriyama 2 Yuji Kaneko 5 Yuji Onizaki 6 Naotaka Takehara 8 Naoto Watanabe 10 Tomoya Mori 11 Takayuki Kishi 12 Kuo Chun-lin 14 Tatsushi Masuda 16 Yusei Kikuchi 17 Kona Takahashi 20 Ryoma Nogami 25 Takanori Hoshi 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 28 Ryohei Fujiwara 29 Hirotaka Koishi 30 Yosuke Okamoto 32 Hideto Asamura 33 Hotaka Yamakawa 34 Yasuo Sano 35 Kazuhisa Makita 37 Masatoshi Okada 41 Makoto Aiuchi 42 Esmerling Vásquez 43 Tomomi Takahashi 44 Shuta Tonosaki 47 Andy Van Hekken 48 Shota Takekuma 51 Fumikazu Kimura 54 C. C. Lee 55 Shogo Akiyama 59 Kyohei Nagae 60 Takeya Nakamura 61 Shotaro Tashiro 62 Hitoto Komazuki 63 Isamu Sato 65 Shogo Saitoh 88 Ryo Sakata 99 Ernesto Mejía

Second squad	9 Yutaro Ohsaki 15 Tatsuya Oishi 18 Shinsaburō Tawata 19 Takuya Toyoda 21 Ken Togame 23 Shogo Noda 26 Seiji Kawagoe 31 Toshihiro Iwao 36 Tadasuke Minamikawa 38 Yusuke Tamamura 39 Nien Ting Wu 40 Takayuki Yamaguchi 45 Keisuke Honda 46 Yuta Nakazaki 49 Tatsuyuki Uemoto 50 Kentaro Fukukura 52 Haruka Yamada 53 Aito Otaki 56 Kazuki Kaneko 57 Tsubasa Kokuba 58 Masato Kumashiro 64 Shota Nakata 66 Naoaki Matsumoto 67 Koki Fujita 68 Kazuki Miyata 71 Daisuke Togawa 78 Komei Fujisawa

First squad coaching	Manager: 90 Norio Tanabe Head and pitching coach: 86 Tetsuya Shiozaki Pitching coaches: 72 Yoshihiro Doi, 89 Shinji Mori Batting coaches: 73 Hideki Hashigami, 76 Masahiro Abe, 80 Shigenobu Shima Fielding/Baserunning coaches: 70 Tomoaki Satoh, 74 Hiroshi Narahara Battery coach: 82 Masanori Taguchi Training coaches: 92 Shinobu Sakamoto, 96 Tatsuya Nakano

Second squad coaching	Manager: 83 Hisanori Yokota Pitching coaches: 81 Chikara Onodera, 91 Eiji Kiyokawa Batting coaches: 75 Hiroyuki Takagi, 85 Katsuhiko Miyaji Fielding/Baserunning coaches: 87 Satoshi Kuroda, 77 Shogo Akada Battery coach: 84 Kosaku Akimoto Training coaches: 98 Takafumi Sato, 95 Haruki Kurokawa

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