Miguel Cairo
| Miguel Cairo | |||
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Cairo with the Cincinnati Reds
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| Infielder | |||
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Born: May 4, 1974 Anaco, Anzoátegui, Venezuela |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 17, 1996, for the Toronto Blue Jays | |||
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| October 3, 2012, for the Cincinnati Reds | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .264 | ||
| Home runs | 41 | ||
| Runs batted in | 394 | ||
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Miguel Jesús Cairo [ki'-row] (born May 4, 1974) is a former Venezuelan infielder in Major League Baseball who played for nine different clubs in a 17-year career spanning 1996–2012. Listed at 6' 1" (1.86 m), 225 lb. (102 k), he batted and threw right-handed.
Primarily a second baseman, Cairo was able to play all infield positions and the corner outfield. A decent hitter, he was certainly good enough for pinch-hitting duties late in his career.
Cairo was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 20, 1990. After beginning his career with the Dodgers Dominican Summer League team, he played with the rookie class Gulf Coast Dodgers (1992), Class-A Vero Beach Dodgers (1992-1993), Advanced Class-A Bakersfield Dodgers (1994) and AA San Antonio Missions.
On November 29, 1995, the Dodgers traded Cairo with Willis Otañez to the Seattle Mariners for Mike Blowers, who then traded him, along with Bill Risley, to the Toronto Blue Jays for Edwin Hurtado and Paul Menhart on December 18, 1995.
Cairo made his major league debut with the Toronto Blue Jays on April 17, 1996 as the starting 2nd baseman. In his first Major League at-bat, he hit a double off of Chuck Finley of the California Angels. He played in 9 games for the Blue Jays, with 6 hits in 27 at-bats for a .222 average. He also played in 120 games for the AAA Syracuse Chiefs, hitting .277.
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