Luis Castillo (baseball)
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Castillo with the New York Mets
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| Second baseman | |||
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Born: September 12, 1975 San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic |
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 8, 1996, for the Florida Marlins | |||
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| October 3, 2010, for the New York Mets | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .290 | ||
| Home runs | 28 | ||
| Runs batted in | 443 | ||
| Stolen bases | 370 | ||
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Luis Antonio Castillo (born September 12, 1975) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman. Castillo is a three-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner, and won the World Series with the Florida Marlins in 2003. He is also the only player who played for the Marlins in both of their World Series winning seasons who did not get traded in between the two seasons.
On August 19, 1992 Castillo was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Florida Marlins. In 1994 he played his first year of baseball in the Gulf Coast League, playing for the Gulf Coast Marlins. He also set a Marlins short-season record in stolen bases, with 31.
In 1995, he was called up to the Kane County Cougars in the Class-A Midwest League, and was selected to the All-Star team. He injured his shoulder in July, causing him to miss the rest of the season. That year, he led the entire Marlins organization in batting average with .326, as well as being second in stolen bases.
Castillo spent most of the 1996 season in the Eastern League, but was called up to the Marlins mid-season and made his major league debut on August 8. His first major league hit came in a game against the New York Mets, where he knocked in the game-winning run in the 10th inning. He was named to the Eastern League All-Star team and post-season All-Star team.
Castillo started playing full-time for the Marlins at second base during the 1997 season. Both at age 21, he and Édgar Rentería were the youngest middle infield combination in the history of the National League. He bruised his left heel mid-season, and missed the entire month of May with the injury. He was optioned to the Triple-A Charlotte Knights on July 28 and did not come back to the major leagues until the next season. Due to this, he did not play for the Marlins during the 1997 World Series.
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