Mike Piazza's Minor League Career
1988-Mike was selected as the 62 round Draft Pick for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Mike then spent the winter in the Dominican Republic, where the Dodgers had a newly opened baseball academy, there Mike learned how to catch.
1989-With the Salem Dodgers Mike hit .268, had 8 homeruns and 25 RBI.
Became a member of the short season Northwest All-Star Team.
1990-In Class A Verno Beach Dodgers where he hits .250, with 20 doubles, 6 Homeruns, and 45 RBI.
He helped the team win the Florida State League Championship.
1991- In Class A Bakersfield, Mike led the entire Dodgers minor league system with 29 homeruns.
Led the team in RBI, extra-base hits, slugging percentage, total bases and doubles.
Mike then spent the winter playing for Mexicali, of the Mexican league. While there, Mike hit .330 with 16 homeruns.
1992- In Double A San Antonio he batted .337 in 31 games. Later in the year he got "promoted" to Triple A Albuquerque, where Piazza had a 25 game hitting streak, hit .341, smashed 16 homeruns and drove in 69 RBI's. Mike was then named the Dodgers Minor League Player of the Year and Pacific League All-Star.
In September of 1992 the Dodgers called Piazza up.
He spent that winter playing in the Arizona Fall League, where he hit .291.
San Antonio
Mike Piazza's Minor League Statistics
| Team |
G |
AB |
R |
H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
SLG |
AVG |
| Salem |
57 |
198 |
22 |
53 |
11 |
0 |
8 |
.444 |
.268 |
| Verno Beach |
88 |
272 |
27 |
68 |
20 |
0 |
6 |
.390 |
.250 |
| Bakersfield |
117 |
448 |
71 |
124 |
27 |
2 |
29 |
.540 |
.277 |
| San Antonio |
31 |
114 |
18 |
43 |
11 |
0 |
7 |
.658 |
.377 |
| Albuquerque |
94 |
358 |
54 |
122 |
22 |
5 |
16 |
.564 |
.341 |
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