Rocco Baldelli
| Rocco Baldelli | |||
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Baldelli with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
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| Tampa Bay Rays – No. 15 | |||
| Center fielder / First base coach | |||
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Born: September 25, 1981 Woonsocket, Rhode Island |
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| MLB debut | |||
| March 31, 2003, for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 3, 2010, for the Tampa Bay Rays | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .278 | ||
| Home runs | 60 | ||
| Runs batted in | 262 | ||
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Rocco Dan Baldelli (/ˈrɒkoʊ bɔːlˈdɛli/; born September 25, 1981) is a coach and former center fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Because of his excellent size and speed, and in reference to his hometown, he was nicknamed "The Woonsocket Rocket" early in his professional career. After a promising beginning to his baseball career with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, a mysterious metabolic/muscular disorder would lead to numerous injuries and force Baldelli to retire as a player at age 29. After working for several years in the Tampa Bay Rays organization as a Special Assistant to Baseball Operations, he was named the team's first base coach in December 2014.
Rocco Dan Baldelli was born to Dan and Michele Baldelli in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Rocco Baldelli attended the PEGASUS Gifted and Talented middle-school program at La Salle Academy in Providence. He played baseball for the Rhode Island Tides, an AAU ball club. Then he switched to Bishop Hendricken High School in Warwick, Rhode Island, for high school. During his senior year at Bishop Hendricken High School, he pulled his oblique muscle, but still managed to hit .531-5-13 with nine steals in only 32 at-bats. Not only did Baldelli excel at sports but excelled in the classroom as well. There he posted a 4.25 grade point average. On the SAT, he scored 1300, and considered attending UNC, Wake Forest, Princeton and Yale. He was also a four sport star, earning all-state honors in baseball, indoor track, basketball, and volleyball.
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