Justin Foscue
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| Justin Foscue | |
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Foscue with the Round Rock Express in 2023 | |
| Texas Rangers – No. 56 | |
| Second baseman / First baseman | |
| Born: March 2, 1999 Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. | |
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| April 5, 2024, for the Texas Rangers | |
| MLB statistics (through 2025 season) | |
| Batting average | .059 |
| Home runs | 0 |
| Runs batted in | 3 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Teams | |
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Justin Connor Foscue (born March 2, 1999) is an American professional baseball second baseman and first baseman for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was selected 14th overall by the Rangers in the 2020 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2024.
Foscue attended Virgil I. Grissom High School in Huntsville, Alabama, where he played baseball.[1] In 2017, his senior year, he hit .318 with six home runs,[2] earning All-State honors.[3] Undrafted in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, he fulfilled his commitment to play college baseball at Mississippi State University.[4]
In 2018, Foscue's freshman season for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, Foscue appeared in 58 games, batting .241 with three home runs and 20 runs batted in (RBIs).[5] As a sophomore in 2019, he moved from third base to second base[6] and slashed .331/.395/.564 with 14 home runs, sixty RBIs, and 22 doubles over 67 starts.[7][8][9] He earned All-SEC First-Team honors.[10] That summer, he played for the United States collegiate national team.[11][12][13] In 2020, Foscue's junior year, he hit .302 with two home runs and 16 RBIs over 16 games before the college baseball season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[14]
