"Clement was drafted by Cleveland in the fourth-round of the 2017 MLB Draft out of the University of Virginia. Clement was part of Virginia's national championship team in 2015 as a freshman. It took four seasons for Clement to reach the majors, making his MLB until 2021. Clement played for Cleveland and the Oakland Athletics before he was picked up by the Blue Jays in 2023. Now in 2025, Clement continues to be the unsung hero of the Blue Jays' postseason run."
"Clement played high school baseball at Brighton High School in Rochester, New York. Jason Wasserman was Clement's high school coach and prior to the World Series, Wasserman spoke highly about Clement during his high school years. "He always puts in the extra time, the extra fungos, the extra time in the batting cage" Wasserman said. "First one there, last one to leave, one of those types of guys.""
"Clement got major playing time for the Blue Jays during the 2025 regular season. Clement batted .277 with nine home runs and 50 RBIs in 157 games played. It's the 2025 postseason in which Clement has taken the roll of being the unsung hero for the Blue Jays. Through the first game of the 2025 World Series, Clement became the first player to record 20 hits and have two or fewer strikeouts in the first 12 games of an MLB Postseason, according to Just Baseball on X. Clement's bat helped start a huge sixth inning in the Blue Jays' 11-4 win in Game 1 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Clement hit an RBI single with the bases loaded to put the Blue Jays up 3-2."
Ernie Clement rose from a fourth-round 2017 draft pick out of the University of Virginia to a key contributor for the Toronto Blue Jays. Clement reached the majors in 2021 after four minor-league seasons and spent time with Cleveland and Oakland before joining Toronto in 2023. Clement batted .277 with nine home runs and 50 RBIs across 157 regular-season games in 2025. Clement became a postseason catalyst, recording 20 hits with two or fewer strikeouts in the first 12 postseason games and delivering a bases-loaded RBI single in Game 1 of the World Series.
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