About me: Ryan Joseph Braun (born November 17, 1983, in Mission Hills, California) is an American right-handed third baseman who broke into baseball's Major Leagues with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2007.[1]Offered scholarships to Stanford University and UC-Berkeley, he instead attended the University of Miami. There, he was named "National Freshman of the Year," as well as a 1st-team "Freshman All-American," by Baseball America in 2003. He was also named 1st-team All-American by Collegiate Baseball.[2] He clinched the awards by batting .364 with 74 RBIs and 17 home runs. As a sophomore SS/DH, Braun hit .335 and slugged .606, stealing 21 bases.During his junior year, his final and most successful at Miami, Braun batted .396 with 18 home runs, a .726 slugging percentage, 76 RBIs, and 23 stolen bases. He was 9th in slugging, and 10th in RBIs, in NCAA Division I, and was named to Baseball America's 2005 College All-American Team as the DH. He moved from shortstop to third base during the year. His performance earned Braun a spot as one of the finalists for the Golden Spikes Award, the most prestigious individual award in college baseball.
First half
On May 24, Braun was called up to the Brewers.[10] Braun recorded his first major league hit, a double, on May 25, 2007. He scored his first major league run when J.J. Hardy homered in the next at bat. The next night, he hit his first major league home run off Padres starter Justin Germano.
Braun was voted the National League Rookie of the Month for June, after leading all N.L. rookies with 21 RBIs.[5] He hit 6 home runs, tying him for 1st among N.L. rookies, while recording a .716 slugging percentage and a .435 on base percentage.
On July 7th he became the fastest Brewer ever to hit his 10th major league home run, hitting it in his 38th game, shattering the previous record of 61.[6] At the All Star Break he was considered the first-half NL Rookie of the Year by Ken Davidoff of New York Newsday.[7]
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Braun hit his 15th home run in the 50th game of his career, and his 20th in his 64th game, making him the fastest to 15 and 20 since Albert Pujols got there in the 49th and 63rd games of his career in 2001.[8][9] He is also the fastest to 20 in Brewers history.
Braun was voted the National League Rookie of the Month for July (for the second straight month), as well as the NL Player of the Month (marking the first time a player has won both awards in the same month).[10] He hit a league-leading 11 home runs, with 25 RBIs, while batting .345.
As of August 10th, Braun led the Major Leagues in slugging percentage (.655; the all-time slugging percentage leaders for a full season at age 23 are Willie Mays and Albert Pujols at .667),[11]) and led the National League in batting average (.345), among hitters with at least 300 plate appearances.[12]
In addition, he had the best batting average (.486), obp (.552), and slugging percentage (1.068) against lefties of all major league hitters with at least 75 plate appearances against them.[13] "I like those guys," Braun joked.[14]
He was also leading the Brewers in batting average, slugging percentage, and obp (.390), was 2nd in home runs (21) and tied for 2nd in triples (3), and was 3rd on the team in RBIs (55) and steals (10) -- despite not having played in 48 games in the first half of the season.[15]
He also led all NL rookies in batting average, slugging percentage, obp, home runs, RBIs, and total bases, was 2nd in triples (behind Hunter Pence), and was 3rd in runs (53; behind Troy Tulowitzki and Chris Young) and stolen bases (behind Michael Bourn and Young).[16]
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