Robert Tanios Taggert "Tagg" Bozied (born July 24, 1979) is an American former professional baseball first baseman.
Son of Bob Bozied, a college football coach for over 40 years, Tagg says he grew up understanding the importance of team.
In 1999, he won a Triple Crown in the West Coast Conference, earning him Player of the Year honors.
After his junior season at USF, Bozied was taken by the Minnesota Twins in the second round of the 2000 amateur draft, the 42nd-overall pick, but did not sign.
Negotiations fell through and Bozied joined the independent Sioux Falls Canaries of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2001 season.
[4] Bozied signed with the Padres for the 2002 and played with the Class-A Lake Elsinore Storm, hitting .298/.377/.546 with 15 homers as their main first baseman.
On July 19, he hit a game-winning game-ending grand slam to give Portland a victory over the Tacoma Rainiers.
He was then signed by the St. Louis Cardinals; in 2007, he hit .264/.349/.490 for the Memphis Redbirds, with 24 home runs, 82 RBI and a .336 average against left-handers (.234 versus righties).
On April 28, 2009, Bozied joined the Brother Elephants of Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan.
[citation needed] On July 8, 2009, he was signed to a minor-league contract by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and assigned to their Triple-A club.