Francisco Cabrera (baseball)
Dominican baseball player (born 1966) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francisco Cabrera Hernandez (born October 10, 1966) is a former Major League Baseball catcher/first baseman who played five seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and the Atlanta Braves, from 1989 to 1993. He also played in Japan with the Orix BlueWave in 1994 and the now defunct China Times Eagles of the CPBL in 1997.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cabrera and the second or maternal family name is Hernandez.
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Francisco Cabrera | |
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First baseman / Catcher | |
Born: (1966-10-10) October 10, 1966 (age 57) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
July 24, 1989, for the Toronto Blue Jays | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 24, 1993, for the Atlanta Braves | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .254 |
Home runs | 17 |
Runs batted in | 62 |
NPB statistics | |
Batting average | .237 |
Home runs | 11 |
Runs batted in | 46 |
CPBL statistics | |
Batting average | .331 |
Home runs | 4 |
Runs batted in | 40 |
Teams | |
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Cabrera started his career with the Toronto Blue Jays, playing three games with them before being traded to the Braves for Jim Acker in the middle of the 1989 season. Cabrera was a reserve for most of his career and had his best season in 1990 in which he played sixty-three games and had 137 at-bats, getting 38 hits, with seven home runs.