Luis Alicea

Second baseman

Born: July 29, 1965 (age 51)
Santurce, Puerto Rico

Batted: Switch

Threw: Right

MLB debut

April 23, 1988, for the St. Louis Cardinals

Last MLB appearance

September 25, 2002, for the Kansas City Royals

MLB statistics

Batting average

.260

Home runs

Runs batted in

422

Teams

Luis René Alicea de Jesús (born July 29, 1965) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman.

Alicea played for the Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers, Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox. He played college baseball for the Florida State University Seminoles with his brother Edwin under head coach Mike Martin.

Alicea played 13 seasons, during which he played in 1,341 games. He was a career .260 hitter, with 47 home runs and 422 runs batted in. He had a lifetime .346 on-base percentage, and a .369 slugging percentage. He ranked in the top 5 in triples three times in his career (1992, 1997, 2000).

In 12 career postseason games, Alicea batted .267, with a .371 on-base percentage.

He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round (23rd pick) of the 1986 amateur draft. He made his major league debut in a 12–9 Cardinals loss to the New York Mets on April 23, 1988. Starting at second base and batting eighth, Alicea went 1-for-4 with a triple, a walk and a run scored in his debut. He hit .212 with one home run and 24 RBI in 93 games with the Cardinals that season.

Alicea spent the next few seasons in the minor leagues before returning to the big leagues with St. Louis in 1991, hitting .191 without a single RBI in 56 games. Despite his struggles, the Cardinals brought him back to the big leagues in 1992 and he hit .245 with a pair of homers and 32 RBI in 85 games. He continued to improve as, in 1993, Alicea hit .279 with three home runs and 46 RBI, stealing 11 bases in 12 attempts, over 115 games. Despite a drop in playing time in 1994, Alicea set a then-career high in home runs with five while hitting .278 with 29 RBI in 88 games.

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