Greg Wells (baseball)
Gregory De Wayne "Boomer" Wells is a former professional baseball player. Wells played Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays in and for the Minnesota Twins in. Wells also played Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hankyu/Orix Braves/BlueWave and Fukuoka Daiei Hawks between –.
He played 47 career Major League games in two seasons, batting.228, with 28 hits in 127 at-bats.
In contrast, over ten NPB seasons he compiled a.317 batting average and a.555 slugging percentage, with 277 home runs and 901 RBI. In 1984, while playing for the Hankyu Braves, Wells won the NPB Triple Crown, with a batting average of.355, 37 home runs, and 130 runs batted in, also winning the Most Valuable Player award in the process. He was the first non-Japanese winner of the Triple Crown.
