Remarkable story of Chris Coste

[hawkeyecub]

Has anyone here paid much attention to his story or picked up his book? He played D3 baseball at a small school in Minnesota. He then played independent baseball in the Northern League for four years until age 27. He put up good numbers every year in short seasons and was signed by the Cleveland Indians organization.

His first two years with them he played 71 total games in AA and 106 total games in AAA hitting fairly well. In '02 he hit .318/.377/.439 in 124 games in AAA mostly as a corner infielder.

He then apparently has an injury and gets picked up by the Red Sox. '03 was a total lost season, playing only 40 games and putting up a sub .500 OPS in AAA.

The Brewers then sign him in '04 where he plays 47 games as a corner IF, 5 as a 2B and 27 as a catcher with a .758 OPS overall.

 

At age 32 he catches on with the Phillies organization, playing almost exclusively as a corner infielder (93 games at 3rd, 29 at 1st, 9 at C) he put up an .817 OPS in AAA again.

In '06 he actually was hitting terribly in AAA playing mostly as a 1B but got called up at age 33 to catch due to injury I'm guessing. As a 33 year old rookie he hit .328/.376/.505 in 200 major league at bats.

Last year he has some injuries and has a .730 OPS in 129 AB's. This year he's been in the majors all year and has a .907 OPS in 119 AB's.

For his major league career he now has a .309/.356/.489 line in 446 AB's spread over three years. He's probably set to start tanking here sometime soon, but I find the whole thing pretty amazing.

 

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/C/Chris-Coste.shtml

[CubbieBum]

Yeah that's pretty crazy.

[apete6]

Yeah that's pretty crazy.

 

HGH does wonders.

[NCCubFan]

They should make a movie about his story. Call it The Rookie 2. :D

[Ski]

Chris Coste is from Fargo, North Dakota. I'm from ND too :D

[17 Seconds]

Yeah that's pretty crazy.

 

HGH does wonders.

 

OMGZZ a player is doing well, he must be cheating!

[Post Count Padder]

They should make a movie about his story. Call it The Rookie 2. :D

I was fairly certain that during his rookie season movie companies wanted to buy the rights to his life story for a movie.

[BigbadB]

You think that story is amazing, just you wait. I'm currently mastering computer on-line baseball in hopes of becoming the next Chris Moneymaker, but in MLB.

 

And when I make the HOF, I won't sell the rights to my story. I'll just write it myself since I write so eloquently. :wave: