When did Michael Jordan play baseball? Find out the details on Jordan’s baseball stats, team, position and career with the Birmingham Barons.
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Michael Jordan played baseball for the Birmingham Barons in 1994.
After retiring from the NBA, Michael Jordan spent 1994 playing baseball for the Chicago White Sox’s minor league affiliate team, the Birmingham Barons. During his brief stint with the Barons, Jordan played outfield with a.202 batting average,88 hits, three home runs,51 RBI and 30 stolen bases in 127 games.
Jordan’s stats were better in the following Arizona Fall League upping his batting average to .252. Former White Sox hitting coach Walk Hriniak told MLB.com that Jordan worked incredibly hard at improving his batting but admitted that he expected the NBA legend to do a bit better on the baseball diamond.
“I didn’t expect him to tear it up, but I expected him to do better,” Hriniak explained.
Jordan retired from the NBA in 1993 and began playing for the Barons in 1994. He would return to the Bulls in 1995 during the NBA regular season just in time for their playoff run.
Michael Jordan plays right field for the White SoxMLB.com throws back to 1994 when Michael Jordan became a 31-year-old rookie for the White Sox, playing an exhibition game against the Cubs Check out http://MLB.com/video for more! About MLB.com: Former Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced on January 19, 2000, that the 30 Major League Club owners voted unanimously to centralize all of Baseball’s Internet operations into an independent technology company. Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) was formed and charged with developing, building and managing the most comprehensive baseball experience available on the Internet. In August 2002, MLB.com streamed the first-ever live full length MLB game over the Internet when the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees faced off at Yankee Stadium. Since that time, millions of baseball fans around the world have subscribed to MLB. TV, the live video streaming product that airs every game in HD to nearly 400 different devices.
