Pedro Borbón
| Pedro Borbón | |||
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Borbón in 1969
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Born: December 2, 1946 Santa Cruz de Mao, Dominican Republic |
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Died: June 4, 2012 (aged 65) Pharr, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 9, 1969, for the California Angels | |||
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| May 25, 1980, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 69–39 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.52 | ||
| Strikeouts | 409 | ||
| Saves | 80 | ||
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Pedro Borbón Rodriguez (December 2, 1946 – June 4, 2012) was a relief pitcher who played Major League Baseball for 12 seasons (1969–1980) with four teams, including 10 seasons for the Cincinnati Reds (1970–1979), playing on two World Series winning teams.
Borbón was born in Santa Cruz de Mao, Dominican Republic to Ramón Jimenez and Ana Teresa Borbón.
He was signed as an amateur free agent by the St. Louis Cardinals organization in 1964 and two years later was drafted out of the Cardinals organization by the California Angels.
Borbón made his Major League debut on April 9, 1969 for the California Angels in a 7–3 home win over the Seattle Pilots. He entered the game in the fifth inning in relief of Andy Messersmith, hurling three scoreless innings with two strikeouts and allowing only two hits as he also earned his first career win. He pitched a total of 22 games for the Angels that season, with a record of 2–3 with a 6.15 earned run average.
In November 1969 he was part of a five-player trade that landed him with the Cincinnati Reds. He proved to be not only one of the most effective relievers in baseball, he was also a rubber-armed workhorse for the Big Red Machine; he was in the top five in the National League in games pitched in six consecutive seasons from 1972 to 1977. He pitched at least 121 innings in each of those six seasons, and was part of a tandem of effective workhorse Reds relievers along with Clay Carroll (who was with the Reds through the 1976 season). No National League pitcher hurled more games from 1970 to 1978 than Borbón. It was Borbón and Carroll along with relievers including Wayne Granger, Will McEnaney and Rawly Eastwick that enabled Reds manager Sparky Anderson to earn the nickname "Captain Hook' for the frequency with which he changed pitchers.
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