Brandon Crawford

Honestly, Brandon Crawford is the kind of player I have a deep appreciation for — the guy who quietly does everything right while flashier names grab the headlines. A California kid through and through, born in Mountain View and schooled at UCLA, he spent basically his entire 14-year career anchoring shortstop for the San Francisco Giants, and those three World Series rings (2012, 2014, 2016) didn't come from luck. Crawford won multiple Gold Gloves for good reason — his range and arm at short were genuinely elite — but he could surprise you with the bat too, like that memorable grand slam in the 2015 NLDS against the Mets. He's the textbook definition of a franchise cornerstone who never needed the spotlight to keep showing up and delivering.

Name (English)

Brandon Crawford

Name (Japanese)

ブランドン・クロフォード

Reading

ぶらんどん・くろふぉーど

Born

January 21, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

Origin

Mountain View, California, United States

Height

188 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Foothill High School

University

University of California, Los Angeles

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://brandon.mlblogs.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/bcraw35
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89

Tags

• California
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.