Brandon Shane Drury was born on August 21, 1992, He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and an American professional baseball third baseman for the Cincinnati Reds.
The Atlanta Braves selected him in the 13th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft. He debuted in Major League Baseball with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2015, and he has also played for the New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, and New York Mets.
Drury was traded to the New York Yankees in a three-team trade on February 20, 2018, in which the Diamondbacks acquired Steven Souza from the Tampa Bay Rays and Taylor Widener from the Yankees, while the Rays acquired Nick Solak from the Yankees and Anthony Banda and two PTBNL (Colin Poche and Sam McWilliams) from the Diamondbacks.
Drury departed the game on April 6, 2018, owing to impaired vision and migraines. Drury was placed on the 10-day disabled list the next day, on April 7, due to persistent migraines. He was activated off the disabled list on May 14 and optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre.
Drury signed a minor league contract with the New York Mets on January 5, 2021. He began the 2021 season with the Triple-A East Syracuse Mets. Drury was added to the Mets’ active roster on May 21.
On May 24, he blasted his first home run as a Met, a ninth-inning pinch hit home run off of Colorado Rockies pitcher Austin Gomber.