Austin Barnes graduated from Riverside Polytechnic High School in Riverside California in 2008.
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While at Polytech, he earned four varsity letters in baseball and was a team captain in his senior season.
A three-time all-county and two-time all-league honoree, Barnes was named first-team All-CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) and all-state in 2007 as a junior. He was also named team and league MVP as a junior.
In his high school career, Barnes had a batting average of .450 as a junior and .478 as a senior.
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He also helped his summer league team, Trombly Baseball, to the 2007 AABC Don Mattingly Championship, hitting .524 with 3 home runs in five games to win the Mattingly World Series batting title.
Following high school, Austin Barnes played collegiate baseball for the Arizona State Sun Devils. He was subsequently selected by the Florida Marlins in the eighth round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft.
Barnes was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers on December 10, 2014.
Austin Barnes has since played 8 seasons for the Dodgers. He has a .225 batting average, 260 hits, 32 home runs, 138 RBIs and 175 runs scored. He has won 1 World Series.


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