Mario Encarnación
Mario Encarnación | |
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Outfielder | |
Born: Baní, Dominican Republic | September 24, 1975|
Died: October 3, 2005 Tamsui, Taipei | (aged 30)|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
August 26, 2001, for the Colorado Rockies | |
Last MLB appearance | |
April 14, 2002, for the Chicago Cubs | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .203 |
Home runs | 0 |
hits | 3 |
Teams | |
Mario González Encarnación (September 24, 1975 – October 3, 2005) was a baseball outfielder born in Baní, Dominican Republic. He played for the Colorado Rockies and Chicago Cubs for a brief duration—23 games in 2001 and 2002.
He had begun playing for the Macoto Cobras of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan since 2005. He set a CPBL record by hitting two home runs in his first two at-bats in the league. On October 3, he was found dead in his team dormitory room.
Earlier in the season, he was briefly suspended for testing positive for steroids, leading to speculation regarding the role of drugs in his death.[1] It had also been reported that he had been suffering from a bout of gastroenteritis for several weeks prior to his death. Autopsy reports later showed that he had died from a congenital medical condition.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Chang, Richard. Baseball player found dead in dormitory room. Taipei Times, October 4, 2005.
- ^ SABR Asian Baseball Committee Newsletter Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. 3 No. 2. December 2005.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Dominican Republic baseball biography stubs
- Baseball outfielder stubs
- 1975 births
- 2005 deaths
- Águilas Cibaeñas players
- Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Canada
- Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in South Korea
- Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Taiwan
- Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States
- Chicago Cubs players
- Colorado Rockies players
- Edmonton Trappers players
- KBO League outfielders
- Lotte Giants players
- Macoto Cobras players
- Major League Baseball left fielders
- Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
- Major League Baseball players suspended for drug offenses