Arquimedez Pozo

Arquimedez Pozo
Arquimedez Pozo
	Third baseman
	Born: August 24, 1973; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
	September 12, 1995, for the Seattle Mariners
Last MLB appearance
	September 28, 1997, for the Boston Red Sox
MLB statistics
Batting average	.189
Home runs	1
Runs batted in	14
Teams
	Seattle Mariners (1995); Boston Red Sox (1996–1997); Yokohama BayStars (NPB) (1999); Haitai Tigers (KBO) (2000);
Career highlights and awards
	1993 – California League All-Star 2B; 1997 – International League All-Star 3B;

Template:Spanish name Arquímedez Pozo Pozo Ortiz (born August 24, 1973 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a retired professional baseball player. He played parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball in the mid-1990s for the Seattle Mariners and Boston Red Sox. He also played one season each in Nippon Professional Baseball and the Korea Baseball Organization. Pozo's primary position was third base, though he also played occasional second.

Career

Pozo was signed as an undrafted amateur free agent by the Seattle Mariners in 1990, and spent three years in the Mariners minor league system before making his major league debut on September 12, 1995.

After starting the 1996 season with the Tacoma Rainiers, he was traded to the Boston Red Sox for Jeff Manto. He spent the next two seasons splitting time between Boston and the Pawtucket Red Sox.

In his third game with the Red Sox, on July 28, 1996, he hit a grand slam off of Minnesota Twins relief pitcher Eddie Guardado. It was the only home run of Pozo's career.

After spending the entire 1998 season with the Pawtucket Red Sox, he signed with the Yokohama BayStars of the Japanese Central League for 1999.^[1] In 2000, he played for the KBO's Haitai Tigers and the Tigres del Mexico in the Mexican League.

References

^ Wayne Gretzky (1999-04-02). "Japanese baseball's golden anniversary season begins tonight: 55 foreigners on hand to fight yakyu wars". Tokyo Weekender. Retrieved 2008-01-27.

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com

12eight Arquimedez Pozo Award
Baseball Prospectus, Arquimedez Pozo
205. Arquímedez Pozo 2B Seattle Mariners 1995
Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization

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[1] Wayne Gretzky (1999-04-02). "Japanese baseball's golden anniversary season begins tonight: 55 foreigners on hand to fight yakyu wars". Tokyo Weekender. Retrieved 2008-01-27.

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