#29

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Full Name:
 

Adrián Beltré Pérez​

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Nicknames:

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“Kojak", "El Koja"

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Born:  
   

April 7, 1979 

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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Family:  

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Mother: Andrea Pérez
Father: Bienvenido Beltre 
Spouse: Sandra Beltre

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His father was a baseball player and an industrial mechanic.

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Friends:  

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Close relationship with Elvis Andrus

 

Agent: Scott Boras 

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School:  

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Liceo Maximo Gomez High School

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Baseball Related:

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1994 - He was spotted at the age of 15 by Alex Avila (grandfather of Alex Avila) at Campo Las Palmas (LA Dodgers facility) 

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1994 - Signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers ($23,000 signing bonus). 

 

1998 - June 24th - Major League debut with Los Angeles Dodgers.

 

2005 - Signed a 5-year contract with the Seattle Mariners ($64 million).

 

2010 - Signed a 1-year contract with the Boston Red Sox ($9 million).

 

2011 - Signed a 5-year contract with the Texas Rangers ($80 million).

 

2016 - Signed a 2-year extension with the Texas Rangers ($36 million).

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Extra:

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1999 - It came out that Beltre was younger than the Dodgers had listed him. His agent, Scott Boras, had Major League Baseball review the case and after a lengthy investigation, they determined that the Dodgers signed Beltre when he was 15 (The signing age for international amateurs is 16). The Dodgers were banned from signing any Dominican-born amateur free agents for a year, their Dominican academy  shut down for a year, they were fined $50,000, and the scout who signed Beltre, Pablo Peguero, and the Dodgers' head of Dominican operations, Ralph Avila, served one-year suspensions.

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Beltre is the all time hit leader among Dominican players.

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2009 - He is known to not play with a protective cup. In 2009 he was hit in the crotch with a ball and ended up on the 15-day with bleeding in his testicle.

 

2017 - Umpire Joe West was suspended 3 games for comments he made about Beltre. He said that Beltre was the biggest complainer in the league and, "Every pitch you call that's a strike, he says, "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!' I had a game with him recently and the pitch was right down the middle. He tells me, "That ball is outside... I told him, 'You may be a great ballplayer, but you're the worst umpire in the league. You stink.''
 

Sample Heckles:

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"Joe West was right Beltre, you're a whiner!"

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Heckle him on twitter:

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