Millar had signed a two-year, $6.2 million contract with the Dragons in January 2003, but in an unprecedented deal brokered by MLB, the Marlins later repaid the money that the Dragons had paid for Millar, and the Red Sox paid a similar sum to the Marlins in return for Millar. In order for the transaction to be completed, he first had to clear the waivers requested by the Marlins, but the Red Sox broke an unwritten rule and blocked the deal with a waiver claim. Millar played with the Marlins until the end of the 2002 season.Īfter the 2002 season, the Marlins sold Millar to the Chunichi Dragons of the Japanese Central League. He would appear in only one more game before spending the rest of the season in the minor leagues with the Triple-A Charlotte Knights, where he batted. The Marlins went on to lose the game, 7–6. Millar's contract was purchased by the Marlins at the start of the 1998 season and he made his major league debut for Florida on April 11, 1998, against the Pittsburgh Pirates, finishing the game 1-for-2 with a walk after appearing as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning.
This record was tied in 2003 by future Red Sox teammate Kevin Youkilis. Florida Marlins (1998–2002) įrom 1997 to 1999, during games encompassing several minor league stints, Millar set the record for most consecutive games reaching base with 71 straight (although this statistic only began to be formally tracked in the minors in 1996). Millar was a replacement player during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, when he played with the replacements in early 1995 and therefore, he is barred from membership in the Major League Baseball Players Association. On September 20, 1993, Millar's contract was purchased by the Florida Marlins. 260 with five home runs and 30 RBI in 63 games.
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In 1993, Millar began his professional career with the Saint Paul Saints of the Northern League. Lamar would be quickly eliminated in two games, with a 6–1 loss against UCLA, followed by a 10-5 finish against Texas A&M. The next season, Millar helped lead the Cardinals to a 44–18 record, to the SBC regular-season and tournament championships, and also to a berth in the NCAA's Central I Regional on the campus of Texas A&M in College Station. After the 1992 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Millar led the Cardinals that season in runs (41), hits (56), home runs (13) and runs batted in (50), and he earned All-Sun Belt Conference honors. In 1992, Lamar went 32–21, posting the NCAA's biggest turnaround with a 14-victory improvement over the 1991 season. For two seasons, Millar was a key part of Lamar's return to prominence in collegiate baseball. Under the tutelage of Coach Jim Gilligan, Millar and the Cardinals prospered. He attended and played college baseball for Los Angeles City College and later Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
He graduated from Hart High School in Santa Clarita, California. He attended and played baseball for University High School in West Los Angeles, which won the 3-A City title in 1988 under coach Frank Cruz, during his junior year. He is currently a host along with Siera Santos and Ryan Dempster on the MLB Network show Intentional Talk, and (as of March 2018) the show's companion audio podcast Intentional Talk: Caught Listening. He played in MLB for the Florida Marlins, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Toronto Blue Jays from 1998 through 2009. Kevin Charles Millar ( / m ɪ ˈ l ɑːr/ born September 24, 1971) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) and is a current analyst for MLB Network. October 3, 2009, for the Toronto Blue Jays
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