Eduardo Pérez | |||
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First baseman, Third baseman | |||
Born: Cincinnati, Ohio |
September 11, 1969 |||
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MLB debut | |||
July 27, 1993, for the California Angels | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
October 1, 2006, for the Seattle Mariners | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Batting average | .247 | ||
Home runs | 79 | ||
Runs batted in | 294 | ||
Teams | |||
Eduardo Atanasio Pérez, (born September 11, 1969) is a former Major League Baseball player and coach and currently an analyst with ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Latin America.
Pérez graduated from Robinson School (a private, college-prep high school) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He went to Florida State University and majored in political science. He played college baseball under head coach Mike Martin for the Florida State University Seminoles. As a Seminoles' junior in 1991, Pérez was named 2nd Team All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association and 3rd Team All-American by Baseball America, batting .370 with 11 home runs, 58 RBIs, and 30 stolen bases. That year, the Seminoles were also in the College World Series, and Pérez was a first-round draft pick (17th overall) of the California Angels.
He played professionally in 1991 for the Angels' Class A short-season Boise Hawks of the Northwest League. The following year, he played for the Class A Palm Springs Angels of the California League before being promoted to the Class AA Midland Angels of the Texas League. In 1993 he played most of the year with the Class AAA Vancouver Canadians of the Pacific Coast League, and in July he was called up to the parent club.