6. Scott Brosius, 3B
Scott Brosius was the Yankees’ maestro at third base for only four seasons. But he made all of them count as his team won three World Series, including the one in which he was voted Most Valuable Player in 1998.
His heroics reached a high in Game 3 of the ’98 series when… well, you’ll see here…
The career of Scott Brosius spanned 11 otherwise unremarkable years. But he made up for that career .257 batting average with his consistency and reliability at third base and his character off the field.
He was the 510th player selected by the Oakland A’s in the 20th round of the 1987 draft. The A’s traded him to the Yankees for pitcher Kenny Rogers. With the Yankees, he could be hidden in the lineup where no one could see him coming.
He’d hit .300 for the Yankees in the 1998 regular season and he could always be counted on for home run numbers in the high teens. But usually, whatever he contributed on this high-powered team went unnoticed except by his teammates on the field.
Today, he remains connected to baseball as the assistant hitting coach for the Seattle Mariners. Prior to that, he was the hitting coach for Seattle’s Triple-A team in Tacoma after serving as head coach of Linfield College’s baseball team in Oregon for seven years.
Yankees fans will most likely remember Scott Brosius this way. In 58 career postseason games with the Yankees, Brosius hit eight home runs with 30 RBI, playing a key role on the three consecutive title teams from 1998 to 2000.