Luis Alicea
Puerto Rican baseball player and coach (born 1965) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Luis René Alicea de Jesús (born July 29, 1965) is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball second baseman and coach.
Luis Alicea | |
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Second baseman | |
Born: (1965-07-29) July 29, 1965 (age 58) Santurce, Puerto Rico | |
Batted: Switch Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
April 23, 1988, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 25, 2002, for the Kansas City Royals | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .260 |
Home runs | 47 |
Runs batted in | 422 |
Teams | |
As player
As coach | |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Alicea played for the Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers, Anaheim Angels, St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox. He played college baseball for the Florida State University Seminoles with his brother Edwin under head coach Mike Martin.
Alicea played 13 seasons, during which he played in 1,341 games. He was a career .260 hitter, with 47 home runs and 422 runs batted in. He had a lifetime .346 on-base percentage, and a .369 slugging percentage. He ranked in the top 5 in triples three times in his career (1992, 1997, 2000).
In 12 career postseason games, Alicea batted .267, with a .371 on-base percentage.