He attended Copiah Academy in Mississippi. Nominated by the Padres for the 2017 Roberto Clemente Award, the most prominent award given to the player who best represents Major League Baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions on and off the field.Spent the majority of the season with Triple-A El Paso and was named Most Valuable Player of the Pacific Coast League before making his Major League debut with the Padres...Got his first taste of the Majors, receiving his first career call-up on 9/21 and hit .371 (13-for-35) with three doubles, four homers and 14 RBI in 11 games before the end of the regular season...Earned National League Player of the Week honors during the final week of the season, hitting .409 (9-for-22) with an NL-best 13 RBI during that week...In just his sixth Major League game on 9/27 vs. the Dodgers at Petco Park, he hit two home runs and drove in seven runs total…per ELIAS, since 1920, only two other players have driven in as many as seven runs in a single game within their first 20 games in the Major Leagues, including J.R. Towles for Houston in 2007 (eight RBI in his sixth game) and Jarrett Parker for San Francisco (seven RBI in his 14th game)...The next day on 9/28 vs. Los Angeles he hit a home run and drove in four, becoming the first rookie to hit at least three home runs and 11 RBI over a two-game span since Fred Lynn did so in 1975, per ELIAS, the year Lynn became the first ever to win an MVP and Rookie of the Year award in the same season...His seven RBI game was just one shy of the Padres team record for most RBI in a single game, with eight by Ken Caminiti on 9/19/95 and eight by Nate Colbert on 8/1/72...His seven RBI were the most ever in a single game by a Padres rookie, breaking the previous record of six by Ryan Schimpf set earlier in the season on 8/12 at New York-NL...Made his Major League debut with a pinch-hit appearance on 9/21 vs. Arizona, drawing an international walk in his first career plate appearance...Received his first career start the next day on 9/22 vs. San Francisco, playing right field and going 2-for-4...Hit his first career home run on 9/24 vs. San Francisco off of Madison Bumgarner...Selected to the U.S. Roster in the 2016 Futures Game played at Petco Park, starting the game for the U.S. in right field, batting cleanup and going 0-for-2 with a walk... After spending the majority of the season with Triple-A El Paso where he helped the Chihuahuas win their first ever Pacific Coast League title, he was also named the 2016 PCL Most Valuable Player, hitting .306 (163-for-533) with 34 doubles, five triples, 30 home runs, 105 RBI and 95 runs scored in 133 games, ranking tied for the PCL lead in homers...Renfroe was also honored with PCL mid-season and post-season All-Star selections...In the first half of the season with El Paso he hit .335 (119-for-355) with 27 doubles, four triples, 21 home runs, 76 RBI and 68 runs scored in 84 games before hitting .247 (44-for-178) with seven doubles, one triple, nine homers, 29 RBI and 27 runs over his final 49 games in the second half for the Chihuahuas.
Reinstated from the DL on 5/28 and slashed .258/.328/.460 in his 40 games played leading up to the All-Star break from 5/28-7/15...Hit a pinch-hit grand slam on 6/3 vs. CIN, the 12th pinch-hit slam in SD history…became the seventh player in club history to hit a go-ahead PH slam and first since Archi Cianfrocco in 1995… it was the first go-ahead PH slam in the majors since MIL Jason Rogers off STL Trevor Rosenthal in 2015...Finished August as the NL RBI leader with 27...with Wil Myers tying for the NL RBI lead in July with 23, the duo became the first Padre teammates to lead or tie for the most RBI in the NL in consecutive calendar months since Chase Headley did so in 2012 in Aug (31 RBI) and Sept (30 RBI)...In his 27 August games, he slashed .302/.322/.613 with six doubles, nine HR, 27 RBI and 13 runs scored…his 115 at-bats were the most he's had in any month and his .302 average was the highest of any month of his career (min. Mississippi State University. Oh, and the Soviet Union fell and boy bands ruled the music charts. Birthday January Jan 28, 1992 . The Boston Red Sox originally drafted him in 2010, but he chose to attend Mississippi State University.Hunter Renfroe was born in 1990s. ... Hunter Renfroe Is A Member Of . The Padres selected Renfroe in the first round of the 2013 MLB draft. Millennials is a generation who grew up with computers, internet and social networks. Recorded his fifth career multi HR game on 9/1 vs. COL in SD's 4-2 defeat...Hit .280 (35-for-125) with 12 HR and 32 RBI in 36 day games compared to a .234 clip (65-for-278) with 14 HR and 36 RBI in 81 night games...Hit .303 (43-for-142) from the seventh inning on compared to a .218 clip (57-for-261) in innings 1-6.