Famly - Desmond has a younger brother, Chris Charron.
Desmond and fellow major league player Josh Roenicke are brothers-in-law.
Roenicke, a pitcher who played for the Minnesota Twins through 2013 and signed a minor league deal with the Nationals for 2014, married Desmond's sister Nikki in 2010.
Desmond is related to Viola Desmond, a Canadian civil rights activist.
Career - Ian Desmond is an American professional baseball infielder and outfielder for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB).
He previously played for the Washington Nationals and Texas Rangers.
While primarily a shortstop early in his career, Desmond began playing primarily left field, center field, and first base starting in 2016.
Awards - Desmond is a three-time Silver Slugger Award winner and a two-time MLB All-Star.
Activism -While with the Nationals, Desmond served on the board of the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, which opened in 2014.
Desmond is a national spokesperson for the Children's Tumor Foundation.
Personal life - In January 2010, Ian married his wife Chelsey, whom he met in the fifth grade.
The couple has four children together.
When his first child was born, Desmond became one of the first players to claim paternity leave, which had just been introduced to MLB.
The family lives in Sarasota, Florida.
In the news - Major League Baseball player Ian Desmond is opting out of the truncated 2020 season.
Coronavirus concerns factored into his decision, but so did the national reckoning with racism - something Desmond says needs to happen within the league, too.
The Colorado Rockies outfielder, in a lengthy and emotional Instagram post, detailed how he made his decision and how racism impacted his life within the sport and outside of it as a biracial Black man.
Desmond, an 11-year MLB veteran, has played the past three seasons with the Rockies after signing a five-year, $70 million contract.
Social media stats as of July 2020:
31K followers on Instagram
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ken beck: He is a whacked out milato, ungrateful for over-rating that leads to $91 mill wind-fall...poor boy (March 09, 2021)Reply »