John Chad Allen (born February 6, 1975) is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the

Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division. The team is named after the Twin Cities area w ...

, Cleveland Indians, Florida Marlins and Texas Rangers.

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Born in Dallas, Texas, his father was Jackie Allen, a cornerback in the National Football League. He attended Duncanville High School and played college baseball for Texas A&M University from 1994 to 1996. He was drafted by the

in the fourth round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft. Allen also served as a member of the United States national baseball team in the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

. After seven games in 1996, Allen began his first full professional season with the Fort Myers Miracle, where he had a .305 batting average over 105 games. He was then promoted to the New Britain Rock Cats, where he spent the rest of 1997 and the entire 1998 season. In 1998, he had a .262 batting average, 82 runs batted in (RBI), and 21

stolen base In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a runner advances to a base to which they are not entitled and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner. The umpires determine whether the runner is safe or ...

s. After spring training, he made the opening day roster for the 1999 Minnesota Twins season, and spent the year as the team's starting left fielder. In 137 games, Allen had a .277 batting average, 10 home runs, and 14

s. He spent most of 2000 with the Salt Lake Buzz, and played 15 games in the majors. After 57 games with the Twins in 2001, he tore his ACL in August which ended his season; the Twins released him during the offseason. For the rest of his career, Allen remained mostly in the minor leagues. In 2002, he played five games for the Cleveland Indians. In 2003, he played 12 games for the Florida Marlins, and he played a combined 41 games over two seasons for the Texas Rangers; his last major league game was June 2, 2005. At the start of the 2006 season, the

Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expans ...

assigned him to the Omaha Royals of the

Pacific Coast League The Pacific Coast League (PCL) is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the Western United States. Along with the International League, it is one of two leagues playing at the Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A level, which is one grade bel ...

(PCL), where he had a .314 batting average in 105 games. In 2007, Allen played for the

Orix Buffaloes The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of the Orix BlueWave of Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of Osaka, Osaka Prefectur ...

of Nippon Professional Baseball. On December 13, 2007, he was named in the Mitchell Report, naming players who had used steroids. His playing career ended after that. From 2013-2014, Allen served as the hitting coach for the New Britain Rock Cats, the Twins's AA minor league affiliate. In 2015, he was a coach for the Chattanooga Lookouts.

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