Christian D. Moore...X: @Moore10Chris...Visited patients at Memorial Care Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach on Aug. 19, 2025...Took photos, signed autographs and brought gifts for children at the hospital...Attended University of Tennessee from 2022-24...Batted .338 (212/628) with 179 runs scored, 35 doubles, four triples, 61 home runs, 160 RBI and a 1.144 OPS in 186 games played in collegiate career...Moore’s 61 career home runs is a Tennessee record, and his 34 home runs hit in 2024 set a new single-season record...With Moore, Tennessee won their first National Championship in school history in 2024...Majored in retail and consumer services...Graduated from Suffield Academy (Suffield, Conn.) and was named a four-time Perfect Game Preseason All-American...Son of Lazette and Charles Moore; Has three older siblings: two sisters, Tysheena and Cynnamon, and one brother, C.J., who was drafted in the 13th round by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2014 and played one season of college baseball at Lamar University in 2015...Enjoys playing video games and is a big country music fan...Signed by Angels scout Joel Murrie.
2025
Began season with Double-A Rocket City and was promoted to Triple-A Salt Lake on May 20...Was batting .279 (57-for-204) with a .796 OPS across 54 combined games with the Trash Pandas and Bees when contract was selected by Angels on June 13...Made MLB debut on June 13 at Baltimore and played two stints with the Major League club...Recorded 32 hits in debut season; 13 of those 32 hits (40.6%) were XBH (5 2B, 1 3B, 7 HR)...Notched first career hit (triple) and run scored June 16...Sixth player in franchise history to record a triple as their first career hit (last; Matthew Lugo on May 10)...Hit first career home run June 20 vs. HOU off Bryan King in the 8th inning...First Angel to hit first career home run in home debut since Francisco Arcia (July 26, 2018)...Reached base safely in 14 consecutive games from June 22-Aug. 8...Became first player in MLB history with a game-tying HR, walk-off HR with his team trailing, and to drive in all of this team's runs in the same game on June 24 vs. BOS...On June 24 vs. Boston, recorded his first career multi-HR game and first career walk-off in the Angels 3-2 win in 10 innings...At 22 years, 246 days old, he became the youngest player in Angels history to have a multi-HR game and a walk-off hit in the same game (previous was Matt Thaiss . age 24)...Also became the youngest Angels player with a walk-off HR since Mike Miley (22 years, 142 days) on Aug. 19, 1975 vs. MIL...Homered in back-to-back games on Sept. 14-16 for the first time in his career...Missed 26 games with a left thumb sprain from July 3 to Aug. 3.
2024
Began season at University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tenn.) where he hit .375 (111/296) with 34 home runs, 74 RBI, 83 runs scored and a 1.248 OPS, and led all NCAA Division I with 111 hits and 236 total bases...Moore’s 34 home runs for the Volunteers set a new single-season school record...In the opening game of the College World Series, Moore became the second player to hit for the cycle in a CWS game, joining Minnesota’s Jerry Kindall (1956)…Tennessee went on to win the College World Series Championship...Named to the Baseball America All-American first team and ABCA All-American second team...Named SEC Player of the Week twice (April 9 and April 22, 2024)…Selected by Angels in first round (eighth overall) of First-Year Player Draft and was assigned to Low-A Inland Empire...Went 6-for-11 with five runs scored, two doubles, one home run and six RBI in two games with Inland Empire before being promoted to Double-A Rocket City...Batted .322 (29/90) with a .911 OPS in 23 games with the Trash Pandas; Had two games with multiple home runs on Aug. 7 and Aug. 9...Missed 13 games due to injury.
