BIOGRAPHY
Anthony Michael Rendon was born on June 6, 1990, in Houston, Texas. He is a third baseman in the MLB.
Rendon played college baseball for the Rice University Owls, where he won the 2010 Dick Howser Trophy. Rendon was selected sixth overall in the 2011 MLB draft by the Nationals. Rendon made his MLB debut in 2013. He is an All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger Award winner. He was a member of the Nationals' 2019 World Series champion team over his hometown Houston Astros.
In 2019, he batted .319/.412/.598 with 34 home runs, led the NL with 44 doubles for the second year in a row, and led the majors in RBIs (126). He had the best walks/strikeouts ratio in the NL (0.93), and made contact with the highest percentage of pitches he swung at (88.3%) of all NL batters. He also hit for a 1.003 OPS in the postseason to help lead the Nationals to their first World Series championship. He hit key home runs in Games 6 and 7 of the World Series and his 8 RBI for the 2019 World Series were the most by a Nationals player.
On December 11, 2019, Rendon agreed to a 7-year $245 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels. He was formally introduced as an Angel on December 14, 2019. Rendon's 6.7 Wins Above Replacement (WAR) in 2019 ranks only behind Mike Trout's 8.4 WAR and above all Angels' players except Trout from 2012 to 2019.
On May 10, 2022, during Reid Detmers' no-hitter, Rendon hit his first left-handed home run, against position player pitcher Brett Phillips. This was also the first time Rendon batted left-handed in a major league game. For the next game, Angels manager Joe Maddon listed Rendon as a switch hitter. On June 17, the Angels stated that Rendon would undergo surgery on his right wrist, for which he was expected to miss the remainder of the season. On June 26, Rendon was part of a bench-clearing brawl between the Angels and Seattle Mariners. After Mariners outfielder Jesse Winker was hit by a pitch thrown by Andrew Wantz, Winker charged the Angels' dugout. During the ensuing brawl, Rendon struck Winker in the face with his non-injured left hand while wearing a cast on his right hand. He received a five-game suspension for his involvement in the brawl. Despite the original expectation that Rendon would be out for the remainder of the 2022 season, the Angels activated him from the injured list on September 28 and he began serving his suspension. He returned to the Angels lineup on October 3 to play the final three games of the season against the Oakland Athletics. He finished the season batting .229 with five home runs and 24 RBIs in 47 games.
