Hiram Bocachica
| Hiram Bocachica | |
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| Free Agent — No. 55 | |
| Outfielder | |
| Born: March 4, 1976 Ponce, Puerto Rico |
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| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
| Professional debut | |
| MLB: September 13, 2000 for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |
| NPB: 2008 for the Saitama Seibu Lions | |
| NPB statistics (through 2008 season) |
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| Batting average | .251 |
| Home runs | 20 |
| Runs batted in | 47 |
| Teams | |
Hiram Gabriel Bocachica Colon (born March 4, 1976 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He is 5'11" and weighs around 195 pounds.
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[edit] Major league career
He was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 1st round (21st overall) of the 1994 Major League Baseball Draft and played for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Seattle Mariners before being released in 2005 and scooped up by Oakland from free agency.
Bocachica impressed scouts with his amazing spring training performance of 2006, and would have been on the MLB roster for that season, had he not suffered from a bone growth in his right hand. He was claimed off waivers by the San Diego Padres on May 31, 2007. He became a free agent at the end of the season.
[edit] Nippon Professional Baseball
Bocachica signed with the Saitama Seibu Lions on December 3, 2007. Despite playing only 78 games during the 2008 season, he hit 20 home runs, including one in the seventh game of the Japan Series, which the team won.[2]
[edit] Atlantic League
On April 12, 2010, Bocachica, along with fellow MLB alums Brian Barton and Tike Redman, was signed by the Bridgeport Bluefish for the 2010 season.[3]
Immediately upon arriving in New York Hiram was called by a friend who was coaching in Mexico. He briefly played with the Broncos de Reynosa in Mexico, but he is now back with Bridgeport.
[edit] Family
Hiram is married to his wife Jocelyn and has two daughters and a son.
[edit] Accomplishments
Claimed to have once killed a lion with a spear.
[edit] References
- ^ "Hiram Bocachica Baseball Stats". Baseball Almanac. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=bocachi01. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
- ^ Associated Press (2008-11-11). "Lions defeat Giants to win Japan Series in seven". SI.com. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/more/11/09/japan.series.ap/index.html. Retrieved 2008-11-11.[dead link]
- ^ http://www.bridgeportbluefish.com/news/index.html?article_id=494
[edit] External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
- Hiram's own website
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico
- Los Angeles Dodgers players
- Detroit Tigers players
- Seattle Mariners players
- Oakland Athletics players
- San Diego Padres players
- Major League Baseball outfielders
- Puerto Rican expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Saitama Seibu Lions players
- Gulf Coast Expos players
- Albany Polecats players
- West Palm Beach Expos players
- Harrisburg Senators players
- Ottawa Lynx players
- Albuquerque Dukes players
- San Antonio Missions players
- Toledo Mud Hens players
- Tacoma Rainiers players
- Arizona League Athletics players
- Sacramento River Cats players
- Stockton Ports players
- Portland Beavers players
- Bridgeport Bluefish players
- 2009 World Baseball Classic players
