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Carlos Obed Baerga Ortiz (born November 4, 1968 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico), better known plainly as Carlos Baerga, is a Major League Baseball player. Many consider Baerga to be among the best Puerto Rican baseball players of all time. After spending most of his career as a second baseman, he has been used at various positions in recent years. November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ...
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As a child, Baerga dreamed of becoming a member of the Santurce Crabbers. This dream would not come true, however, until well after he had begun his career in the major leagues.
In 1985, at the age of sixteen, Baerga was signed by the San Diego Padres, who later traded him to the Cleveland Indians. Baerga debuted as a major league baseball player with the Indians, on April 14, 1990. That year, he would hit for 17 doubles and seven home runs, while averaging .260 at the plate. 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Over the next four years, his home run and batting averages numbers rose steadily, hitting 11 home runs, and batting for an average of .288 in 1991, getting 20 home runs and averaging .312 in 1992, and with 21 home runs and an average of .321 in 1993. In 1992, he reached two hundred hits in one season for the first time, hitting 205 hits that year. In 1993, he again reached the mark of 200 hits, with exactly 200. The switch-hitting Baerga was the first of two players to have ever hit one home run from both sides of the plate in the same inning. He did so on April 8, 1993 against the New York Yankees pitchers Steve Howe and Steve Farr in the games 7th Inning. On August 29, 2002 he was joined by Chicago Cubs utility player Mark Bellhorn, who completed the feat against the Milwaukee Brewers. 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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During the 1994 season, his average numbers fell, due to the strike-shortened season. He hit 19 home runs and maintain an average of .314 at the plate. 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
1995 was another year plauged by the on-going strike. When baseball resumed, Baerga quickly got back into the swing of things, getting 175 hits and 15 home runs in 139 games. He hit for .314. The Indians made it to the World Series, where they fell to the Atlanta Braves in six games. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Baerga played 100 games with the Indians in 1996, before being traded to the New York Mets. He collected 129 hits with twelve home runs that year, hittin only for .193 after being traded to the Mets. He ended that year hitting for an average of .254. 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
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Over the next two season with the Mets, Baerga had below average seasons, hitting nine home runs and batting .281 in 1997, and seven home runs and .266 in 1998.
1999 was a year marred by injuries for Baerga, who saw little action playing for the San Diego Padres. Part way into the season, he returned to the Indians for a short period of time. However after playing only 55 games Baerga felt that with his injuries he could no longer perform as a MLB player. 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
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He retired, and bought the Crabbers, becoming player-manager and realizing his childhood dream. However, after only one season, the Crabbers were forced to move to Bayamon, where they became the Cowboys. Bayam n (not to be confused with Bayamo, Cuba) is a city in northern Puerto Rico. ...
In 2002, Baerga returned to Major League Baseball. That year, he got 52 hits as a Boston Red Sox. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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In 2003, he was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he collected 71 hits for the team. The Diamondbacks re-signed him for 2004, but the aging Baerga, now prone to injury, got hurt again and was only able to play 20 games for the Diamondbacks that season. He was signed by the Washington Nationals to a minor-league contract before the 2005 season. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Carlos Baerga has collected 1,543 hits in his MLB career, with 132 home runs, and a batting average of .292.
Baerga became a Christian during the early 2000s, and he took former world boxing champion and personal friend Alex Sanchez with him to church one day. The former world champion also became a Christian on the day of the visit. In turn, Sanchez brought over Felix Trinidad to the church that Baerga attends, and Trinidad became a new-born Christian as well. Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament writings of his early followers. ...
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Alex El Nene Sánchez (born June 5, 1973) is a Puerto Rican boxer who is a native of Ponce. ...
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