Hubert Brooks, Jr. is a former Major League Baseball player. During his career, he played as a third baseman, shortstop and right fielder for the New York Mets , Montreal Expos , Los Angeles Dodgers , California Angels and Kansas City Royals . Brooks played varsity baseball at Arizona State University — winning an NCAA championship there in 1977 while playing shortstop, with Bob Horner at third — and was the third player chosen by the Mets in the June 1978 amateur draft. Shortly after arriving in New York in 1980, he became something of a minor sensation, being the first player... in Mets history to provide stability at third base — the team having spent its first 18 seasons trying in futility to find a regular at the hot corner. He became entrenched at the spot in 1981, finished third in that year's National League Rookie of the Year voting , and stayed until 1984. On December 10, 1984, he was sent to Montreal with Floyd Youmans, C Mike Fitzgerald and OF Herm Winningham that brought catcher Gary Carter to the Mets.
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