Octavio Dotel

Octavio Dotel
Dotel with the Tigers in 2012
Pitcher
Born: (1973-11-25) November 25, 1973 (age 43) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 26, 1999, for the New York Mets
Last MLB appearance
April 19, 2013, for the Detroit Tigers
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	59–50
Earned run average	3.78
Strikeouts	1,143
Saves	109
Teams
New York Mets (1999) Houston Astros (2000–2004) Oakland Athletics (2004–2005) New York Yankees (2006) Kansas City Royals (2007) Atlanta Braves (2007) Chicago White Sox (2008–2009) Pittsburgh Pirates (2010) Los Angeles Dodgers (2010) Colorado Rockies (2010) Toronto Blue Jays (2011) St. Louis Cardinals (2011) Detroit Tigers (2012–2013)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion (2011) Pitched a combined no-hitter on June 11, 2003

Octavio Eduardo Dotel Diaz (born November 25, 1973) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. Dotel played for thirteen major league teams, more than any other player in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), setting the mark when he pitched for the Detroit Tigers on April 7, 2012, breaking a record previously held by Mike Morgan, Matt Stairs, and Ron Villone. He was a member of the Houston Astros for 5 seasons.

Dotel made his MLB debut on June 26, 1999, for the New York Mets and lost. His first MLB win came July 1, 1999, against the Florida Marlins. He ended the season as the winning pitcher in the 1999 National League Championship Series game five against the Atlanta Braves.

He was voted Player of the Week for the week of July 25, 1999. Dotel won the 2011 World Series as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2013, as part of the World Baseball Classic champions along with fellow Dominicans Robinson Canó and Santiago Casilla, Dotel became one of the few players in history to win both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic. (Daisuke Matsuzaka and Koji Uehara have accomplished the feat as well.)