Grae Kessinger

Graeber Crawley Kessinger, known as Grae Kessinger, was born on August 25, 1997 and is an American professional baseball infielder. He attended Oxford High School in Oxford, Mississippi, and played college baseball for the Ole Miss Rebels, where he was named First Team All-SEC at shortstop and won the Brooks Wallace Award as the nation's top shortstop. The Houston Astros selected him in the second round of the 2019 draft and he made his Major League Baseball debut on June 7, 2023, hitting his first home run that July. He later spent time in the Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates organizations on minor league terms. He belongs to the third generation of his family to hit a home run in the major leagues, after his grandfather Don Kessinger, a six-time All-Star shortstop, and his uncle Keith Kessinger.