Sean Burroughs

About Sean Burroughs

Sean Patrick Burroughs (born September 12, 1980, in Atlanta, Georgia) was a third baseman for the San Diego Padres in Major League Baseball prior to being traded to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 2005 offseason. He currently is a free agent.

Burroughs, who stands 6'2" tall and weighs 200 pounds (91 kg), bats left-handed, but throws right-handed. He first joined the Padres major league team in 2002, after being drafted out of high school; Burroughs declined a scholarship offer to the University of Southern California to accept the Padres' contract offer.

Burroughs, the son of 1974's American League MVP Jeff Burroughs, owns a .280 career batting average. Sean Burroughs also starred in the Little League World Series as a pitcher when he was growing up in Long Beach, California, winning the championship in 1992 and 1993, on a team his father coached (the former had been won by forfeit). Sean made waves in the media for his precociousness following the titles, telling David Letterman on his show that he wanted to be a gynecologist when he grew up.