University of Arizona Baseball Players Who Made it to the Major Leagues

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart of every University of Arizona alumnus who played baseball at the University of Arizona AND made it to the Major League level.

"(Playing) basketball at (the University of) Arizona taught you that there are a lot of things you can't control in the game of sports." - Kenny Lofton
University of Arizona
"Wildcats"

Major League Baseball Player Alumnus

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

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Lum Davenport

1919 - 1920

05-02-1921

Hank Leiber

1929 - 1931

04-16-1933

Jack Redmond

1929 - 1934

04-22-1935

Hal Warnock

1933 - 1935

09-02-1935

Walt Kellner

1949 - 1949

09-06-1952

Don Lee

1954 - 1956

04-23-1957

Gene Leek

1958 - 1958

04-22-1959

Don Gile

1954 - 1955

09-25-1959

Carl Thomas

1954 - 1956

04-19-1960

Charlie Shoemaker

1959 - 1961

09-09-1961

Dan Schneider

1962 - 1962

05-12-1963

Dave Baldwin

1957 - 1959

09-06-1966

Mike Paul

1966 - 1966

05-27-1968

Eddie Leon

1965 - 1967

09-09-1968

Steve Barber

1967 - 1967

04-09-1970

Bart Zeller

1959 - 1960

05-21-1970

Bob O'Brien

1968 - 1968

04-11-1971

Ron Theobald

1963 - 1963

04-12-1971

Rich Hinton

1967 - 1969

07-17-1971

Tim Plodinec

1967 - 1968

06-02-1972

Leon Hooten

1969 - 1970

04-13-1974

Dan Meyer

1971 - 1971

09-14-1974

Ron Hassey

1974 - 1976

04-23-1978

Dave Rajsich

1972 - 1973

07-02-1978

Dave Stegman

1973 - 1976

09-04-1978

Craig Chamberlain

1978 - 1978

08-12-1979

Brad Mills

1978 - 1979

06-08-1980

Terry Francona

1978 - 1980

08-19-1981

John Moses

1979 - 1980

08-23-1982

Craig Lefferts

1978 - 1980

04-07-1983

Greg Bargar

1980 - 1980

07-17-1983

Jim Scranton

1979 - 1979

09-05-1984

Jack Howell

1983 - 1983

05-20-1985

Dwight Taylor

1979 - 1981

04-14-1986

Casey Candaele

1980 - 1982

06-05-1986

Ed Vosberg

1980 - 1982

09-17-1986

Joe Magrane

1983 - 1985

04-25-1987

Tommy Hinzo

1985 - 1986

07-16-1987

Jack Daugherty

1981 - 1982

09-01-1987

Tom Barrett

1981 - 1982

07-02-1988

Kevin Blankenship

1982 - 1984

09-20-1988

Chip Hale

1984 - 1987

08-27-1989

Dave Rohde

1983 - 1986

04-09-1990

Scott Erickson

1989 - 1989

06-25-1990

Lance Dickson

1988 - 1989

08-09-1990

Kevin Ward

1980 - 1983

05-10-1991

Gil Heredia

1986 - 1987

09-01-1991

Kenny Lofton

1988 - 1988

09-14-1991

J.T. Snow

1987 - 1989

09-20-1992

Trevor Hoffman

1987 - 1989

04-06-1993

Jason Bates

1990 - 1992

04-26-1995

Tony Clark (San Diego State)

DNP

09-03-1995

George Arias

1991 - 1993

04-02-1996

Damon Mashore

1988 - 1991

06-05-1996

Jason Thompson

1990 - 1990 & 1992 - 1993

06-09-1996

Josh Pearce

1997 - 1999

04-20-2002

Alan Zinter

1987 - 1989

06-18-2002

Ben Diggins

1997 - 2000

09-02-2002

Colin Porter

1996 - 1998

05-30-2003

Brian Anderson

2002 - 2003

08-16-2005

Shelley Duncan

1999 - 2001

07-20-2007

Jonathan Meloan

2003 - 2005

09-01-2007

Mark Worrell (F.I.U.)

2003 - 2003

06-03-2008

Nick Hundley

2003 - 2005

07-04-2008

Ryan Perry

2006 - 2008

04-08-2009

Trevor Crowe

2003 - 2005

04-09-2009

Mark Melancon

2004 - 2006

04-26-2009

Daniel Schlereth

2006 - 2008

05-29-2009

Brad Mills

2004 - 2007

06-18-2009

Name [Click for M.L. Stats]

Dates Played

Debut / Box

University of Arizona M.L.B. Player Alumnus



The University of Arizona baseball program started in 1891 and Lum Davenport was their first player to make it to the Major League level. Names that appear on the chart above in bold print are in the University of Arizona Hall of Fame.

Did you know that there are sixty-eight former Arizona players who made it to the show? Send corrections or updates to Baseball Almanac.

There are fifteen Arizona Wildcats who made it to the big leagues AND are enshrined in the University of Arizona Baseball Hall of Fame (bold entries above).

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