Miguel Olivo
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Olivo with the Seattle Mariners
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| Free agent | |||
| Catcher | |||
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Born: July 15, 1978 Villa Vásquez, Dominican Republic |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 15, 2002, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2014 season) |
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| Batting average | .240 | ||
| Hits | 905 | ||
| Home runs | 145 | ||
| Runs batted in | 490 | ||
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Miguel Eduardo Olivo Peña (born July 15, 1978) is a Dominican professional baseball catcher who is currently a free agent. He bats and throws right-handed. He has played with seven Major League Baseball (MLB) teams from 2002 to 2014.
Olivo was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the Oakland Athletics in 1996 and played in the A's minor-league system through 2000.
On December 13, 2000, he was traded to the Chicago White Sox as the player to be named later in an early trade for Chad Bradford. In July 2001, while playing for White Sox Class AA affiliate in Birmingham, Olivo was suspended for six games and barred from that year's All-Star Futures Game for using a corked bat. Olivo maintained the bat, which had an A's logo on it, had been given to him by a former teammate while playing in the Athletics system.
He made his major league debut on September 15, 2002 with the White Sox and hit a home run in his first Major League at-bat, off Andy Pettitte of the New York Yankees. He played 6 games that year, with 4 hits in 19 at-bats. He was the backup catcher for the White Sox for all of 2003 and the first half of 2004. In 166 games with the White Sox, he hit .245 with 14 homers and 58 RBI.
Olivio was traded from the Sox to the Seattle Mariners on June 27, 2004 along with Jeremy Reed in exchange for Freddy García and Ben Davis.
After struggling with the Mariners he was traded to the San Diego Padres in on July 31, 2005 for minor leaguer Daniel Mateo and Miguel Ojeda. He played in 37 games for the Padres and hit .304. Olivo is remembered by Padres broadcaster Mark Grant for an interview in which he started talking about newly acquired pitcher Chan Ho Park, when instead he was asked about the Padres stadium, Petco Park
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