Darin Erstad

Darin Charles Erstad is an American former professional baseball player and the current head coach of the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball team. Prior to 2007, he had played with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim franchise before signing with the Chicago White Sox in 2007. He batted and threw lefthanded. He was a twotime MLB AllStar and a threetime Gold Glove Award winner.

Having signed a 750,000 contract in the offseason, Erstad hit a home run in his first atbat as a member of the Chicago White Sox on opening day 2007 off CC Sabathia. He finished the season having batted .248 with a .650 OPS over 87 games. He played the following two seasons with the Houston Astros. Erstad found success in the first season, batting .276, but struggled near the end of the second season as a role player, ending the season with a .194 batting average. When catcher Chris Coste joined Erstad on the Astros roster in July 2009, they became the first two players born in North Dakota to play together on the same team in major league history.

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