:Milt Ramírez

{{Short description|Puerto Rican baseball player (1950–2022)}}

{{Family name hatnote|Ramírez|Barboza|lang=Spanish}}

{{Use American English|date=August 2022}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Milt Ramírez

|position=Shortstop

|image=Milt Ramirez Cardinals.jpg

|caption=

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1950|4|2}}

|birth_place=Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

|death_date= {{Death date and age|2022|8|18|1950|4|2}}

|death_place= Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 11

|debutyear=1970

|debutteam=St. Louis Cardinals

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=August 1

|finalyear=1979

|finalteam=Oakland Athletics

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.184

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=6

|teams=

• St. Louis Cardinals ({{mlby|1970}}–{{mlby|1971}})
• Oakland Athletics ({{mlby|1979}})

}}

Milton Ramírez Barboza (April 2, 1950 – August 18, 2022) was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball infielder. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals during the {{By|1970}} and {{By|1971}} seasons and the Oakland Athletics during the {{By|1979}} season.

Ramírez signed with the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in 1968. The St. Louis Cardinals selected him from the Orioles organization in the Rule 5 draft after the 1969 season.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/98859061/?terms=%22milt+ramirez%22&match=1|title= Detroit Free Press 02 Dec 1969, page Page 38|date=December 2, 1969 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |access-date=August 19, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription}} He batted .190 in 87 plate appearances across 62 games played for the Cardinals in the 1970 season. Ramírez appeared in four games for the Cardinals in the 1971 season.{{Cite web |last=Rogers |first=Anne |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/cardinals-all-time-rule-5-draft-picks |title=Every Rule 5 Draft pick in Cards history |date=December 11, 2020 |website=MLB.com |access-date=19 August 2022}} The Cardinals traded Ramírez along with Skip Jutze to the Houston Astros for Ray Busse and Bobby Fenwick on November 29, 1972.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/30/archives/white-sox-acquire-henderson-and-send-bradley-to-the-giants.html |title=White Sox Acquire Henderson And Send Bradley to the Giants |work=The New York Times |date=November 30, 1972 |access-date=March 10, 2020}} Ramírez played for the Oakland Athletics in 1979. He batted .161 in 28 games before he was sent to the minor leagues.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/284809390/?terms=%22milt+ramirez%22&match=1 |title= The Daily Spectrum 08 Aug 1979, page 9|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum |location=Saint George, Utah |date=August 8, 1979 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=19 August 2022 |url-access=subscription}}

Ramírez died on August 18, 2022, at the age of 72.{{Cite news |url=https://www.noticel.com/deportes/beisbol/20220818/fallece-el-expelotero-milton-ramirez/ |title=Fallece el expelotero Milton Ramírez |date=18 August 2022 |work=Noticel |access-date=19 August 2022 |lang=es}}