Eric Murice Brown Jr. (born December 19, 2000) is an American

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in the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

Amateur career

Brown attended Parkway High School in Bossier City, Louisiana where he played on their baseball team. In 2018, his junior season, he hit .340 with three home runs and 29 RBIs. As a senior in 2019, he batted .523 with six home runs, 36 RBIs, and six triples. Unselected in the

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, he enrolled at

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to play

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. During Brown's freshman year at Coastal Carolina in 2020, he started 16 games and hit .259 before the season was cancelled due to the

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. As a sophomore in 2021, he started fifty games in which he batted .294 with nine home runs, 38 RBIs, and 11 stolen bases. That summer, he played in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the

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and was named to the All-Star team. He opened the 2022 season as the Sun Belt Conference Preseason Player of the Year. For the season, he played in 57 games and slashed .330/.460/.544 with seven home runs and forty RBIs. Following the season's end, he traveled to

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where he participated in the Draft Combine.

Professional career

Brown was selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the first round with the 27th overall selection of the 2022 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the team for $2.05 million. Brown made his professional debut with the Arizona Complex League Brewers and was promoted to the

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after four games. Over 27 games between the two teams, Brown batted .268 with three home runs, eight RBIs, and 19 stolen bases.

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Coastal Carolina baseball bio
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