Sunday, January 5, 2014

Happy Birthday - 1/5

Happy birthday to ~

OF Dan Gulbransen (23)
Originally from Appleton, Wisconsin, Gulbransen was selected in the 16th round in 2012 out of Jacksonville University (FL). Gulbransen started his season at Tri-City, but didn't last there long as he was quickly promoted to Quad Cities and later to Advanced A Lancaster to end the season. In a total of 56 games, he hit .321/.385/.502 with 15 doubles, a triple and seven home runs.

One former Astro celebrates a birthday today ~

OF Milt Thompson (55)
Drafted in the second round in 1979 by Atlanta, Thompson came to Houston in a July 1994 trade with the Phillies. Thompson played for Houston in 101 games over two seasons in 1994 and 1995.  He was unable to duplicate his earlier success for Atlanta (.302 BA over 98 games), Philadelphia (.279 BA over five seasons), and St. Louis (.274 over four seasons) as he batted only .229 for Houston.

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