Yasiel Puig
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Puig with the Dodgers in 2014
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| Los Angeles Dodgers – No. 66 | |||
| Right fielder | |||
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Born: December 7, 1990 Cienfuegos, Cuba |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 3, 2013, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Batting average | .287 | ||
| Hits | 447 | ||
| Home runs | 57 | ||
| Runs batted in | 194 | ||
| Stolen bases | 30 | ||
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| Men's Baseball | ||
Representing  Cuba
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| World Junior Baseball Championship | ||
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2008 Edmonton | Team |
Yasiel Puig Valdés (YAH-see-el PWEEG; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpwiɣ]; born December 7, 1990) is a Cuban professional baseball right fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Puig played for the Cuban national baseball team in the 2008 World Junior Baseball Championship, winning a bronze medal. He defected from Cuba in 2012, and signed a seven-year, $42 million contract with the Dodgers. He made his MLB debut on June 3, 2013. In 2013, Puig hit .319 in 104 games with 19 home runs, and was selected by Baseball America to their annual "All-Rookie team".
Yasiel Puig was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, the elder of two children of Omar and Maritza Puig. He has a younger sister, Yaima Puig. His father was an engineer in a sugar cane factory. He began playing baseball at age nine.
Puig played for the Cuban national baseball team in the 2008 World Junior Baseball Championship, winning a bronze medal. He then played for the Cienfuegos team of the Cuban National Series in the 2008–09 Cuban National Series. He batted .276 with five home runs in his debut season. Puig enjoyed a breakout season in the 2009–10 Cuban National Series, with a .330 batting average, 17 home runs, 47 runs batted in (RBIs) and 78 runs scored in 327 at-bats. Puig also played for the Cuban national team in the 2011 World Port Tournament, where he tried to defect along with teammate Gerardo Concepción. Concepción was successful while Puig was not, and he was disciplined by not being allowed to play during the 2011–12 seasons.
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