J.J. Hardy’s full name is James Jerry Hardy and he was born 1982 and he is professional baseball shortstop of American nationality and he plays under Major League Baseball in Baltimore Orioles. He played before in Milwaukee Brewers and in Minnesota Twins. From his biography, J.J. Hardy was playing the baseball when he was still in Sabino High School in the city of Arizona and he was the captain for Sabercats baseball team. He was All- State selection from 1999 until 2001 and he became All-American in the year 2001. In 2001, he became also the member for U.S junior national team and he won a silver medal in the city of Canada in Edmonton.
J.J. Hardy was drafted to join Milwaukee Brewers in the second round in 2001 draft. In the year 2003, he played in US Olympic qualifying team. He participated in the MLB All-star future games of 2003. He suffered the dislocated shoulder and he torn labrum in the year 2004 and during this time, he has to be out of the minor league for a year.
He went to live in the spring training of 2005 and he was a frontrunner who won the starting shortstop job. Even he started at a slow start, he finished strong and he ended the year with 247 batting average, 9 home runs with 50 RBIs. He committed with 10 errors in his field but he also had the lowest range factor for the major league shortstops.
In the year 2006, J.J. Hardy slid in the Philadelphia Phillies catcher called Sal Fasano in the home plate when he was trying to score and he ended up injuring his ankle too bad since Fasano tried to block him. The X-rays showed that he has a severe sprain for this ankle and he was placed on the disabled list for 15 days. He recovered from that sprain but he continued to suffer the problem with the ankle tendons that was popping in or out of the place. The Brewers said that he was expected to go under the surgery on his ankle and it would be performed by the team physician called Dr Williams Raasch. He finished that year with the average of 242 with the home 5 home runs with 14RBI.
J.J. Hardy has a father who was a professional tennis player while the mother was a professional golfer. His brother is in the US army and he was in the unit that went to Baghdad for Operation Iraqi Freedom. J.J. Hardy is married to Adrienne and his wife was a softball player of University of Arizona. J.J. Hardy’s highlights, video and stats can be found online. J.J. Hardy signed a contract for 3 years worth 40,000,000 dollars with Baltimore Orioles. The money was guarantee and his salary was around 13 million dollars per year. He had the base salary of 12,500,000 dollars.
| Birth Date: | 19 Aug, 1982 |
| Age: | 37 yrs |
| Occupations: | Baseball player |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Tucson |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American baseball player |
| Net Worth 2021: | 40 million |
