Who is Michael Conforto?Heres everything you need to know about him

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Michael Conforto aka Scooter made his MLB debut for the Mets in 2015 about a year after being selected with the 10th overall pick in the 2014 MLB Draft. At the time of writing, the highlight of his career was the highlight of his career in 2017, when he was named All-Star. Here’s everything you need to know about the talented player.

Who is Michael Conforto? – Biography

Scooter was born as Michael Thomas Conforto on March 1, 1993 in Seattle, Washington. He is the son of Michael Anthony Conforto and Tracie Conforto (née Ruiz). Conforto was born with athletic genes as both of his parents were active athletes. His mother, Tracie, was a three-time Olympic medalist in synchronized swimming, while his father, Mike, played American football with the Penn State Nittany Lions at Pennsylvania State University.

Michael Conforto isn’t the only one who inherited his parents’ athletic genes, just like his sister Jacqueline, too. She played college football with the Azusa Pacific University women’s soccer team. Michael Conforto has Italian and Hawaiian roots from his father’s side and his mother’s side respectively. He is also of Spanish descent.

Conforto was already an active athlete before filthy teenagers. As a boy, Conforto represented the Northwest region in the 2004 Little League World Series, the biggest youth baseball competition in the world. He attended Redmond High School in Redmond, Washington where, in addition to baseball, he also started playing football for safety. Conforto excelled in football so much that he was recruited by several Ivy League schools to play football for their respective teams.

As a baseball player, Conforto also received offers from a number of schools, including the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, the University of Washington, Washington State, as well as the prestigious Stanford University.

He, however, chose Oregon State University where he then shone brightly in his freshman year, when he was named by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) as freshman hitter of the year. Highlights of his college career include leading his team to the College World Series and the United States National Team at Collegiate Baseball in 2013.

After being selected by the New York Mets in the 2014 Draft, Conforto received a signing bonus of approximately $3 million. He spent the next year with minor league affiliates Brooklyn Cyclones and St. Lucie Mets before being promoted to the major leagues in July 2015.

A few times injuries have marred his performance which has seen him demoted to the lower leagues, however he manages to keep his career alive. As of June 2018, Michael Conforto’s stats stood at a .253 batting average, 55 home runs and 152 innings. According to Spotrac, Michael Conforto’s salary in 2018 was $605,094.

He is 6-foot-1 and weighs 215 lbs per player profile on FOX Sports.

About his mom

Michael Conforto’s mother, Tracie LehuananiRuiz-Conforto is a famous Olympian who won two gold medals and a silver medal. In total, she has won 41 medals nationally and internationally. She was born on February 4, 1963 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Tracie got her big break in synchronized swimming in 1982, when she competed at the world championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She won two medals in solo competitions. She also impressed at the 1983 Pan American Games, where she won gold in solo and duet. Conforto’s mother became the first women’s individual champion at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Tracie married Michael Anthony Conforto in 1985 who helped her train for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where she won a silver medal in the individual solo event. 1988 would be his last appearance at the Olympics. In 1993, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Romantic life – The friends of Michael Conforto

Michael Conforto is one of those athletes who keep information about their private life very private. He’s not even a fan of social media and last time we checked he had deactivated his Twitter account and only had three photos on his Instagram account. He revealed to the New York Post that he made the latter focus more on reality.

However, in an IBTimes article about girlfriends among New York Mets stars before the 2015 World Series, Conforto was linked to a certain girl named Heather. The NY Daily News, in an article about Conforto’s All-Star Match in 2017, said Conforto was in the company of his unnamed girlfriend.

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