David Fletcher (baseball)


David Owen Fletcher is an American professional baseball infielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball. He was drafted by the Angels in the sixth round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. He made his MLB debut in 2018.

Career

Fletcher attended Cypress High School in Cypress, California. In 2013, his senior year, he batted.437. After high school, he enrolled at Loyola Marymount University and played college baseball for the Loyola Marymount Lions. In 2014, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League, and was named a league all-star. In 2015, as a sophomore, he slashed.308/.385/.416 with two home runs and 27 RBIs in 55 games. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels in the sixth round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft.
Fletcher spent his first professional season with the Orem Owlz and Burlington Bees, slashing.311/.377/.414 with one home run and 40 RBIs in 69 games. In 2016, he played for the Inland Empire 66ers and Arkansas Travelers, batting.280/.322/.351 with three home runs, 37 RBIs, and 16 stolen bases in 98 games. After the season, he played in the Arizona Fall League. Fletcher played 2017 with the Mobile BayBears and Salt Lake Bees, batting.266/.316/.339 with three home runs, 39 RBIs, and 20 stolen bases in 111 games.
Fletcher started the 2018 season with Salt Lake, with whom in 254 at bats he hit.350/.394/.559. The Angels promoted him to the Major Leagues on June 12. Fletcher played the remainder of the season in multiple positions, hitting.275/.316/.363 with one home run and 25 RBIs in 284 at bats in 80 games.
In 2019 he batted.290/.350/.384. He swung at the lowest percentage of pitches inside the strike zone, and made contact with the highest percentage of pitches he swung at, the highest percentage of pitches he swung at in the strike zone, as well as the highest percentage of pitches he swung at outside the strike zone, of all major leaguers.