Giancarlo Alvarado
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Born: January 24, 1978 Santurce, Puerto Rico |
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Giancarlo Carlos (Martinez) Alvarado (born January 24, 1978 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a professional baseball pitcher. He was raised in Camuy, Puerto Rico. He has played in the Chinese Professional Baseball League and Nippon Professional Baseball as well as in international competitions with the Puerto Rico national baseball team.
Alvarado was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1995 and made his professional baseball debut with the rookie class Gulf Coast Pirates that same year. After two seasons in the Gulf Coast League, he was promoted to the Class-A Augusta GreenJackets in 1997. He remained in the Pirates system through 2001, playing with the Lynchburg Hillcats and AA Altoona Curve. He also played in the Puerto Rico League in the winter of 2001.
Alvarado left the Pirates organization as a free agent in 2002 and played for the High Desert Mavericks in the Milwaukee Brewers organization in 2002 and the Lakeland Tigers and Erie SeaWolves in the Detroit Tigers organization in 2003.
Unable to land a job in the affiliated minors after the 2003 season, Alvarado pitched for the independent Lancaster Barnstormers and Newark Bears, the Macoto Cobras in Taiwan and a couple of Mexican League teams during 2004–2005.
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