The Seattle native was selected 213th overall in the 2012 draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks and spent parts of three seasons in the minor leagues before making his big league debut in 2014. Lamb played just 37 games and hit four home runs in 133 at-bats. The following season, Lamb played 107 games and hit six home runs in 390 at bats.
It wasn’t until 2016 that he had an above-average season, hitting 29 home runs in 594 at-bats in 151 games with the Diamondbacks. In 2017, Lamb hit a career-high 30 home runs in 635 at-bats, earning an All-Star Game nod. Unfortunately, Lamb never reached these heights again, hitting just 12 home runs in 464 at-bats in 2018 and 2019.
During the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, Lamb played 18 games with the Diamondbacks before being designated for assignment in September 2020. He then signed with the Oakland Athletics to end the year, playing 13 games.
This began the journeyman part of Lamb’s career. The 2021 season included stops with the Chicago White Sox and Blue Jays, as well as Spring Training with the Atlanta Braves. In 2022, Lamb played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and his hometown Seattle Mariners. In 2023, he spent part of the season with the Triple-A team of the New York Yankees, as well as the Los Angeles Angels, his last Major League Baseball action.
Although Lamb’s MLB career was over at this point, he played the 2024 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates Triple-A team and the 2025 season with the San Francisco Giants before being released on June 2 of this year.
Lamb’s pit stop in Toronto was short-lived. The Jays claimed the third baseman off waivers in early September, and he slashed .129/.256/.290 with a home run in 39 at-bats. That home run came on September 12, 2021 in a 22-7 blowout against the Baltimore Orioles.
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