Ray Torres
Template:Spanish name Outfielder Raymundo Antonio Torres Ruiz (April 12, 1958 – October 27, 2012) spent 22 seasons in professional baseball, including 20 in the Mexican League.
Personal life
Torres was born in San Jose de Moradillas, Sonora, Mexico and died in Merida, Yucatan Mexico at the age of 54.
Playing career
He began his career in 1977 (though one source says 1976), playing for the Alacranes de Durango. He remained with them through 1978. From 1979 to 1982, he played in the Chicago White Sox organization, before returning to the Mexican League partway through the 1982 season, where he remained until his retirement in 1998. He spent most of his Mexican League career with the Leones de Yucatán.[1]
He was elected to the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.[2]
Sources
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- 1958 births
- 2012 deaths
- Alacranes de Campeche players
- Alacranes de Durango players
- Appleton Foxes players
- Baseball players from Sonora
- Diablos Rojos del México players
- Edmonton Trappers players
- Glens Falls White Sox players
- Industriales de Monterrey players
- Iowa Oaks players
- Jalisco BBC players
- Knoxville Sox players
- Leones de Yucatán players
- Mexican expatriate baseball players in Canada
- Mexican expatriate baseball players in the United States
- Mexican League baseball pitchers
- Naranjeros de Hermosillo players
- People from La Colorada Municipality