Ernie James Clement is a Major League Baseball utility player for the Cleveland Guardians. In 2021, he made his MLB debut.
Clement was a baseball and ice hockey player at Brighton High School in Rochester, New York. He hit.472 during his high school career.
He went to the University of Virginia to play college baseball after going undrafted out of high school in the 2014 MLB draft.
Clement participated in 62 games (61 starts) as a freshman at Virginia in 2015, hitting .245 with one home run and 22 RBIs.
In the 2015 College World Series, he hit.292 and was chosen to the All-CWS Team, helping Virginia win its first national championship. He spent the summer with the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters of the Northwoods League.
He batted .351/383/.443 with one home run and thirty RBIs in sixty games (all starts) as a sophomore at Virginia in 2017, earning a position on the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Third Team.
He was selected the league’s Most Valuable Player after hitting.353 with 59 hits in forty games for the Harwich Mariners in the Cape Cod Baseball League in the summer of 2016.
He hit .315 with two home runs and 34 RBIs in 58 games as a junior for Virginia, earning All-ACC Third Team accolades for the second year in a row. Clement only struck out 31 times in 745 collegiate at-bats.
How Old Is Ernie Clement?
Ernie Clement is 26 years old. He was born on March 22, 1996.