Luis García (first baseman)
Luis García | |||||||||||||||
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First baseman/Designated hitter | |||||||||||||||
Born: Guadalajara, Mexico | November 5, 1978|||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
June 9, 2011, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | |||||||||||||||
Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||
October 2, 2012, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | |||||||||||||||
NPB statistics (through 2012) | |||||||||||||||
Batting average | .245 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 15 | ||||||||||||||
RBI | 64 | ||||||||||||||
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Luis Alfonso García Etxebarria (born November 5, 1978) is a former professional baseball designated hitter / first baseman.
García played in the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Dodgers, and New York Mets minor league systems from 1997 to 2005. He signed with the Sultanes de Monterrey of the Mexican League in 2005, playing with them until 2014. He spent the 2015 and 2016 seasons with the Leones de Yucatán, and the 2017 season with the Diablos Rojos del México. He played part of the 2018 season with the Guerreros de Oaxaca before he was released in early May. In June, he signed with the Generales de Durango, and was released in mid-August. He retired as an active player following the conclusion of the 2018 season, and later became the general manager of the Águilas de Mexicali in the Mexican Pacific League.
References
[edit]- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Luis Garcia at NPB (archive)
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Akron Aeros players
- Arizona League Mexico Stars players
- Augusta GreenJackets players
- Baseball players from Guadalajara, Jalisco
- Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
- Diablos Rojos del México players
- Generales de Durango players
- Guerreros de Oaxaca players
- Gulf Coast Red Sox players
- Las Vegas 51s players
- Leones de Yucatán players
- Mexican expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Mexican expatriate baseball players in the United States
- Mexican League baseball first basemen
- Mexican League baseball right fielders
- Naranjeros de Hermosillo players
- New Haven Ravens players
- Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen
- Norfolk Tides players
- Pan American Games medalists in baseball
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico
- Sarasota Red Sox players
- Sultanes de Monterrey players
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players
- Trenton Thunder players
- 2006 World Baseball Classic players
- 2013 World Baseball Classic players
- Baseball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- World Baseball Classic players of Mexico
- Mexican baseball biography stubs
- Baseball first baseman stubs