Career
He is the brother of Nomar Garciaparra. Garciaparra was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the supplemental 1st round (36th overall) of the 2001 June draft with the pick awarded to the Mariners after the free agent departure of Alex Rodriguez. He spent six years in Seattle"s minor league system, topping out with their Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers in 2006.
In 2007, after being claimed off of waivers by the Philadelphia Phillies, Garciaparra was assigned to the their Double-A Reading Phillies.
By the end of the year, he had been promoted to Triple-A Ottawa. He was later released and signed by the Milwaukee Brewers and was assigned to their Double-A Huntsville Stars.
In 2009, he began the season with the Triple-A Nashville Sounds, but was sent back to Huntsville on June 27. In 2010 he split his time between Round Rock Express of the Pacific Coast League and Corpus Christi Hooks of the Texas League before he retired from baseball.
Post Garciapara is now a area scout in Southern California for the Saint Louis Cardinals and former instructor for United States of America Baseball.
Garciaparra resides in Redondo Beach, California, and graduated from Don Bosco Technical Institute in June 2001. While there, he was named First Team All-Camino Real League in baseball for three years, handled kicking duties for the school"s football team, and played varsity soccer. He missed most of the 2001 high school baseball season while recovering from surgery to repair a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament sustained in a football game.