Andrew Benintendi is an outfielder for the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball. He has played for the Boston Red Sox from 2016 to 2020 and the Kansas City Royals from 2021 to 2022.
On July 27, 2022, the Royals sent the New York Yankees minor league players T.J. Sikkema, Chandler Champlain, and Beck Way in exchange for Benintendi. On September 2, 2022, a pitch hit Benintendi in the right wrist, and he had to leave the game.
Because of swelling in his right wrist, he was put on the 10-day injured list. More information showed that Benintendi’s right wrist had a broken hook in the hamate, which meant he needed surgery.
Benintendi used to play baseball for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks when he was in college. Benintendi was picked by the Red Sox in the first round of the 2015 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut with the team in 2016.
In 2018, the athlete played for the team that won the World Series. The Red Sox sent Benintendi to the Royals in a trade after the 2020 season. He won a Gold Glove Award in 2021, and he was an All-Star in 2022.
Who Is Andrew Benintendi Girlfriend Becca Schamel?
Rebecca Ann Schamel, who goes by the name Becca Schamel, is in the news right now because she has been dating the famous baseball outfielder Andrew Benintendi for a long time.
Becca was born in the Missouri city of St. Louis. No one knows much about what she does for a living. 2013 was the year that Becca graduated from Nerinx Hall High School. In the same way, she got her degree in 2017 from the University of Arkansas.
This means that she stopped going to college when Andrew made it to the big leagues just a few years later. Because of this, people have thought that the two have been together since they were in college.
Schamel was born on March 22, 1995, to Gail and Kurt Schamel. Schamel is going to school for medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Becca also played soccer and worked at Mercy as a person who helped take care of patients.
Andrew Benintendi Dating Life Updates
Andrew and Becca have been together for a long time and are happy. The baseball player also posted a picture of herself on her birthday. The caption was very sweet and said a lot about how much they loved each other.
Andrew posts every once in a while on his Instagram account, which is officially verified and has the handle @andrewbenintendi16 as its username. He has more than 259,000 people who follow him on social media.
Andrew and Becca have been together for a while, but they have never talked about what they want to do. They seem to be putting a lot of effort into getting their careers going before they get married.
Andrew is more focused on his professional career than on his family life right now, which is a good idea for any young player at the start of their career. He went to work for the first time in 2016, and he hasn’t looked back since.
Andrew Benintendi’s Parents And Siblings
Andrew Benintendi was born on July 6, 1994, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to parents Chris Benintendi and Jill Benintendi. He has a sister named Olivia Benintendi who is his only sibling.
Benintendi’s father’s grandparents came to the United States from Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy, and settled on Lama Court in Gravesend, Brooklyn. He had always liked the Cincinnati Reds.
Benintendi, who lives in St. Louis, Missouri, during the offseason, rooted for the St. Louis Blues to win the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals over the Boston Bruins. The athlete doesn’t seem to be very open about talking about his family on a public platform.
When he was in high school, the athlete won the Ohio Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year award and the ABCA/Rawlings National High School Player of the Year award.
His parents and sister have always loved and cared for him. Without them and the way they pushed him, Andrew would not have grown as a professional as he has.
Amateur career
In 2015, Benintendi was given the Dick Howser Trophy.
Benintendi went to high school in Madeira, Ohio, at Madeira High School. In his senior year, he played baseball for the school’s Mustangs team. He hit.564 with 12 home runs, 57 runs batted in (RBIs), and 38 stolen bases. Benintendi was the Ohio Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year and the ABCA/Rawlings National High School Player of the Year. He scored 199 runs for his high school team, which is an Ohio record. He also played basketball in high school and was named Co-Player of the Year by the Cincinnati Enquirer Division III in 2011–12. He set school records for career points (1,753), season points (638), career three-pointers (180), and points per game in a season (25.5).
In the 2013 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft, the Cincinnati Reds picked Benintendi in the 31st round. However, he did not sign with the Reds. He went to college and joined the Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team at the University of Arkansas. As a true freshman, he played in 61 games and started 60 of them. He hit.276/.368/.333 and had 27 RBIs and one home run.
In 2015, Benintendi’s junior year, he had the best batting average (.380), home runs (19), on-base percentage (.489), slugging percentage (.715), and walks in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) (47). He was named Player of the Year in the SEC. He also won the Golden Spikes Award, the Dick Howser Trophy, and the Baseball America College Player of the Year Award.
Work as a professional
With the seventh pick in the 2015 MLB draft, the Boston Red Sox chose Benintendi.
He signed with the Red Sox and got a bonus of $3.6 million.
Benintendi got his first job with the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League’s Lowell Spinners. Andrew played 19 games for the Class A Greenville Drive at the end of the 2015 season. He hit 26/74 (.351) and had an OPS of 1.011. He began the 2016 season with the Class A-Advanced Carolina League’s Salem Red Sox. On May 15, he was moved up to the Class AA Eastern League’s Portland Sea Dogs.
2016
On August 2, 2016, only 421 days after being picked in the draft, the Red Sox moved Benintendi from Double-A to the major leagues.
He first played in the major leagues on August 2 as a pinch-hitter against the Seattle Mariners. On August 3, he got his first major league hit off of Hisashi Iwakuma. Benintendi hit his first triple and home run in the major leagues on August 21. He did this against the Detroit Tigers in a 10–5 loss.
In his first at-bat of the 2016 postseason, Benintendi hit a home run in Game 1 of the ALDS against the Cleveland Indians on October 6. Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer gave up the home run. Benintendi became the youngest player in Red Sox history to hit a home run in a postseason game when he did this. But the Indians won the game 5–4, and they won the series in three games. Benintendi finished the 2016 season with a batting average of.295, 31 hits, 14 RBIs, two home runs, and one stolen base in 34 games.
2017
Benintendi started the 2017 season with the Red Sox. He batted second on Opening Day, when the Red Sox beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5–3. Benintendi beat the Texas Rangers 11–4 on July 4, going 5-for-5 with 6 RBIs, two home runs, and a double. Even though he didn’t get any first-place votes because Aaron Judge got them all, he came in second in the American League Rookie of the Year voting. Benintendi played in 151 games for the Red Sox during the 2017 regular season. He hit.271 with 20 home runs, 90 RBIs, and 20 stolen bases. In the ALDS, he played four games against the Houston Astros, who went on to win the World Series. He hit.250 (4-for-16) and had a home run and two RBIs.
2018
He was the team’s regular left fielder for the first half of the season and usually hit second, after Mookie Betts. Benintendi was put on the ballot for the 2018 MLB All-Star Game by the American League’s All-Star Final Vote on July 8. At that point in the season, Benintendi was hitting.293/.379/.515 with 14 home runs and 55 RBIs. The fans chose Jean Segura of the Seattle Mariners in the Final Vote. Benintendi played in 148 games and hit.290 for the season. He had 41 doubles, 103 runs scored, 16 home runs, 87 RBIs, and 21 stolen bases. In Games 4 and 5 of the 2018 American League Championship Series, Benintendi got the last out to help the Red Sox win. In the first of those two games, he dove to stop a hit with the bases loaded in a two-run game. When the Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, Benintendi won his first championship. Benintendi had four hits in Game 1 of the World Series and hit.333 in the Fall Classic.
2019
Benintendi has been Boston’s regular left fielder since the start of the 2019 season. Manager Alex Cora made him the team’s leadoff hitter at first, but at the beginning of June, he moved Benintendi to second in the order and put Mookie Betts first, which was the usual order for the team in 2018. On June 11, he was thrown out of an MLB game for the first time because of something he said about the home plate umpire (ngel Hernández) that the first base umpire heard (Vic Carapazza). Benintendi played in 138 games during the season. He hit.266 with 40 doubles, 13 home runs, and 68 RBIs.
2020
The Red Sox signed Benintendi to a two-year, $10 million deal on February 8, 2020. On July 29, he got his 500th hit in the major leagues. It was a double against Jeurys Familia of the New York Mets. Benintendi’s right rib cage strain put him on the 10-day injured list on August 12. After being put on the 45-day injury list on September 8, Benintendi’s 2020 season was over. Benintendi hit.103 (4-for-39) with one RBI for the 2020 Red Sox.
Kansas City Royals
On February 10, 2021, the Red Sox sent Benintendi and some cash to the Kansas City Royals as part of a three-team trade. The Mets got Khalil Lee, while the Red Sox got Franchy Cordero, Josh Winckowski, and three players to be named later. In June, the Mets’ Freddy Valdez and the Royals’ Grant Gambrell and Luis De La Rosa were named as minor league prospects.
In 134 games during his first season with the Royals, Benintendi hit.276/.324/.442 with 17 home runs and 73 RBIs. He played 1,116 innings in left field and had a fielding percentage of.987. He won his first Gold Glove Award.
Benintendi was given a salary of $8.5 million for the 2022 season through salary arbitration. He started the season by hitting.317, which helped him get picked as the only Royals player to go to the 2022 MLB All-Star Game.
