About Reggie Sanders
Reginald Laverne Sanders (born December 1, 1967) is an American former right fielder in Major League Baseball and current executive for the Kansas City Royals. He batted and threw right-handed. He played professionally with the Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Kansas City Royals. He had his best batting year in the 1995 season when he batted.306 with 28 home runs; in over 800 games with the team, he batted.271 before he was traded in early 1999 to San Diego. He was traded after one season with the team to Atlanta and spent the next couple of years playing for teams on one-year deals. With the Diamondbacks in 2001, he had a career-high 33 home runs and had 14 hits in 16 postseason games as the team won the World Series for the first time in franchise history; Sanders reached the World Series twice more with San Francisco in 2002 and St. Louis in 2004. In the 2006 season with the Royals, Sanders recorded his 300th stolen base and 300th home run to become only the fifth player to record each statistic in MLB history. Injuries forced Sanders to play his final game in July 2007; in 1,777 games, Sanders had 1,666 hits with 305 home runs and 304 stolen bases. Possessing both power and speed, Sanders is one of eight MLB players to record over 300 home runs and over 300 stolen bases. He was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 2025. In 2017, Sanders was hired as a special assistant to baseball operations for player and staff engagement for the Kansas City Royals, where he currently serves. Sanders possessed both power and speed and is one of eight MLB players to record over 300 home runs and over 300 steals.
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