Dan Uggla was born in the year 1980 and he is a professional baseball second baseman and he is a free agent. He has played in MLB (Major League Baseball) under Florida Marlins, San Francisco, Atlanta Braves and in Washington Nationals. In the year 2010, he got the Silver Slugger Award for a second base.
Uggla had finished third in the year 2006 National League Rookie of The year voting, behind the teammate and the winner called Hanley and after the future teammate Ryan Zimmerman who was in Washington Nationals but he won Players Choice with Sporting News NL Roy Awards. He also holds Franchise records of Marlins. Besides, he is an only second baseman of MLB history who was able to hit 30 homes runs four times in the consecutive seasons.
From his biography, Uggla is a native of Kentucky in the city of Louisville. He is a son to Elizabeth Armistead who was born as Cooley and to John Carl Uggla. He finished his schooling at Columbia Central High School of Columbia in Tennessee. He went to the University of Memphis Tigers and he played for Memphis Tigers.
He was drafted in Arizona Diamondbacks for the 11th round as 338th overall in the 2001 draft. He spent five seasons playing in Diamondbacks organization and it included one year in the short season advanced team and for Yakima Bears of Yakima Washington.
In 2006, he started to play in the Marlins and he had the first major league hit in only 3 days afterwards. He singled off Andy Pettitte who plays as Houston Astros Pitcher. He first had the first home run on 13 against San Diego Padres who plays as Starter of Dewon Brazelton. The first stolen base was the steal he had on the home plate against the Philadelphia Phillies. He was named 2006 All-Star Game and he was the player in reserve and who was selected for the All-Star Game in one season and he had been picked as Rule 5 Pick.
In 2006, he hit the 25th home run and he was able to break the records of Gordon to have the most home runs by the rookie as a second baseman. He has a net worth of 34 millions. He is married and his wife is Janette Repsch. They have given birth to a daughter. He has already two children in his first marriage. He signed the contract of five years worthy 62 million dollars.
The contract was with Braves in 2011 and it was released in the year 2014 after 3 tough seasons and he signed the contract with the minor league instead together with Nationals. However, Atlanta was at the hook with the last year of the contract of Uggla. He was being paid 78,000 dollars for each game. After leaving Braves, he says that he keeps good memory with it. His height is 5 feet with 11 inches.
| Net Worth 2021: | 34 million |
