Jose Oquendo
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Oquendo with the St. Louis Cardinals
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| Outfielder / Infielder / Coach | |||
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Born: July 4, 1963 Río Piedras, Puerto Rico |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 2, 1983, for the New York Mets | |||
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| September 29, 1995, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .256 | ||
| Hits | 821 | ||
| Runs batted in | 254 | ||
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José Manuel Roberto Guillermo Oquendo Contreras (born July 4, 1963) is a former Major League Baseball infielder and a third base coach & is currently in the front office as a Special Assistant to the General Manager, as an instructor out of the Cardinals facility in Jupiter, Florida for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is the longest tenured third base coach in Major League Baseball. He also served as manager of the team representing Puerto Rico in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classic.
Oquendo was born in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, and signed with the New York Mets as an amateur free agent in 1979 at only fifteen years old. When he made his major league debut with the Mets in 1983, he became the first player in franchise history to be younger than the franchise (the Mets began play in 1962; Oquendo was born in 1963). After two seasons bouncing back and forth between the Mets and their triple A affiliate the Tidewater Tides, Oquendo was traded with Mark J. Davis to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ángel Salazar and John Young.
Oquendo spent all of 1985 with the Cardinals' triple A affiliate the Louisville Redbirds. With the Mets, Oquendo had only ever played shortstop; with perennial All-star Ozzie Smith firmly entrenched there, the Cards experimented with Oquendo at other positions when they brought him up for the 1986 season. Along with short, Oquendo played second base, third and in the outfield.
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