page_title: Xavier Nady
section_title: New York Mets
hierarchical_section_title: Xavier Nady / Professional career / New York Mets
caption_attribution_description: Xavier Nady
context_page_description: Xavier Clifford Nady VI is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. Nady played in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Arizona Diamondbacks, Washington Nationals, San Francisco Giants, and the San Diego Padres.
  The St. Louis Cardinals originally drafted Nady in the 4th round of the 1997 Major League Baseball draft after he was named Northern California Player of the Year in his senior year of high school. Nady attended University of California, Berkeley, where he set the all-time Pac-10 Conference record for career slugging percentage for the California Golden Bears baseball team.
context_section_description: The Padres traded him to the New York Mets for Mike Cameron on November 18, 2005.  Nady underwent an emergency appendectomy early in the morning on May 30, 2006. As a result, he was placed on the 15-day disabled list, and returned to the lineup on June 18.
caption: Nady with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2007
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