Jacoby Ellsbury McCabe was born on the 11th September 1983, in Madras, Oregon USA, to a mother who is a full-blooded Navajo, and father of British and German descent and is a baseball player, currently he is a centre fielder of the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was in the winning team of the World Series 2007 and the World Series 2013. Ellsbury has also won a Golden Glove and a Silver Stick in 2011. Jacoby has been playing baseball professionally since 2005.
How much is the net worth of Jacoby Ellsbury? It has been reported by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $20 million, as of the data given in the middle of 2017. Sport is the main source of Ellsbury’s net worth.
Jacoby Ellsbury Net Worth $20 Million
To begin with, after matriculation from high school in his native city of Madras, he attended Oregon State University in Corvallis – in both he was a member of baseball teams.
Concerning his professional career, he was selected 23rd in the first round of the 2005 MLB Draft by the Boston Red Sox, and began playing in major league in June 2007; he made his first hit in the majors on the same day. Post-season he played in the World Series, where the Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies in four games. In 2008, he won the American League in terms of stolen bases (50), and received the MLB Rookie of the Year Month Award in September, and was listed 3rd behind Evan Longoria from Tampa Bay Rays and Alexei Ramirez from the Chicago White Sox for Rookie of the Year. A year later, he again won the league’s most stolen bases title (70) and was the best in terms of triples (10). In 2010, he played just 18 matches due to his injury suffered in spring following a collision with Kansas City Royals player Adrián Beltré.
In 2011 his statistics were an average of 0.321 (5th in the league), slugging percentage 0.552 (6th in the league), 212 hits (3rd in the league), earning 32 home runs and 39 stolen bases. During the season he also became the first Red Sox player to join the 30-30 Club. In the voting for the MVP American League he finished the second losing to Justin Verlander from the Detroit Tigers.
In April 2012, he suffered a shoulder injury in a clash with Tampa Bay Rays player Reid Brignac, which ruled him out of the game for three months. In the spring of 2013, in a match against Philadelphia Phillies Jacoby broke the club record, stealing bases five times. The same year, he played in all the World Series matches, in which the Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2.
At the end 2013, Ellsbury accepted a $153 million contract for seven seasons with the New York Yankees. In 2014, he recorded batting average of .271 with 16 home runs as well as 39 stolen bases. The season of 2015 was again marked with an injury, this time of right knee. Even though in the 2016 season Ellsbury did not suffer injuries and played in 148 games, the season was not overwhelming. In 2017, he suffered a concussion.
Overall, the player’s current statistics are as follows: the batting average .285 with 1,322 hits, 101 home runs and 329 stolen bases.
Finally, in the personal life of Jacoby Ellsbury, he married Kelsey Hawkins at the end of 2012, and they have two children.
