:Junior Ortiz

{{short description|Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1959)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Junior Ortiz

|image=Junior Ortiz Mets.jpg

|position=Catcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1959|10|24}}

|birth_place=Humacao, Puerto Rico

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 20

|debutyear=1982

|debutteam=Pittsburgh Pirates

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=August 8

|finalyear=1994

|finalteam=Texas Rangers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.256

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=5

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=186

|teams=

• Pittsburgh Pirates ({{mlby|1982}}–{{mlby|1983}})
• New York Mets ({{mlby|1983}}–{{mlby|1984}})
• Pittsburgh Pirates ({{mlby|1985}}–{{mlby|1989}})
• Minnesota Twins ({{mlby|1990}}–{{mlby|1991}})
• Cleveland Indians ({{mlby|1992}}–{{mlby|1993}})
• Texas Rangers ({{mlby|1994}})

|highlights=

• World Series champion ({{wsy|1991}})

}}

{{family name hatnote|Ortiz|Colón|lang=Spanish}}

Adalberto "Junior" Ortiz Colón (born October 24, 1959) is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball catcher. He played all or part of thirteen seasons in the majors from 1982 to 1994. He was a member of the 1991 World Champion Minnesota Twins.

Ortiz was a light-hitting catcher with a stutter.{{cite book |author-link= Ron Darling |last1=Darling |first1=Ron |title=108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game |date=2019 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=9781250184399 |page=148 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6pbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA148 |access-date=26 September 2019 |language=en}}{{cite book |author-link=Tim Kurkjian |last1=Kurkjian |first1=Tim |title=Is This a Great Game, Or What?: From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's Head--My 25 Years in Baseball |date=2007 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780312362232 |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gEeLOXdVJjwC&pg=PA67 |access-date=26 September 2019 |language=en}}

Ortiz was known for having a strong sense of humor.{{cite book |author-link=Tim McCarver|last1=McCarver |first1=Tim |last2=Peary |first2=Danny |title=Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans: Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch it Like a Pro |date=1999 |publisher=Villard Books |isbn=9780375753404 |page=70 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pe2V9w3tTy8C&pg=PA70 |access-date=26 September 2019 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Nelson |first1=Kevin |title=Baseball's Even Greater Insults:: More Game's Most Outrageous & Irreverent Remarks |date=2011 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781439145159 |page=208 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vvXcEkKqcAC&pg=PA208 |access-date=26 September 2019 |language=en}}