Reggie Otero | |||
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Otero in 1963.
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First baseman | |||
Born: Havana, Cuba |
September 7, 1915|||
Died: October 21, 1988 Hialeah, Florida |
(aged 73)|||
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MLB debut | |||
September 2, 1945, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
September 29, 1945, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Batting average | .391 | ||
Home runs | 0 | ||
Runs batted in | 5 | ||
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Regino José Otero Gómez (September 7, 1915, Havana, Cuba – October 21, 1988, Hialeah, Florida) was a Cuban baseball player who had a long career in the minor leagues in the United States (1936–53), and played briefly with the Chicago Cubs in 1945. He also played 13 years in the Cuban Professional League. He was a left-handed batter, but threw right-handed. After his playing career ended, he managed in Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela.
Reggie Otero made his organized baseball debut in 1936 with the York White Roses/Trenton Senators club of the New York–Penn League, where he hit .243 with 0 home runs and 22 RBI. He also played for the International League's Albany Senators that year, but hit only .111. The following year he returned to the Senators but still had trouble, hitting .136 with 0 HR and 3 RBI. In 1938 he moved south to the St. Augustine Saints (Florida State League). There he hit .308, still with 0 HR, but with 52 RBI.
Otero played for the Greenville Spinners in 1939 and 1940. In his two seasons in the South Atlantic League he hit .325-2-57 and then .315-1-50. He moved back north in 1941, when he played for the Springfield Nationals of the Eastern League and hit .223-0-24. Otero played for the Springfield club's farm team, the Utica Braves of the Can-Am League, in 1942, where he led the league in batting with a .364 average, 2 HR and 101 RBI. Inactive in 1943, Otero moved west in 1944, playing for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League. At the end of the 1945 season he was called up to the Chicago Cubs, after hitting .344 with 23 RBI, following a .306-0-54 season.