Alex Delgado

{{short description|Venezuelan baseball player (born 1971)}}

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| name = Alex Delgado

| position = Catcher

| image =

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|1|11}}

| birth_place = Palmarejo, Zulia, Venezuela

|debutleague = MLB

| debutdate = April 4

| debutyear = 1996

| debutteam = Boston Red Sox

|finalleague = MLB

| finaldate = July 12

| finalyear = 1996

| finalteam = Boston Red Sox

|statleague = MLB

| stat1label = Batting average

| stat1value = .250

| stat2label = Home runs

| stat2value = 0

| stat3label = Runs batted in

| stat3value = 5

| teams =

}}

Alexander Delgado (born January 11, 1971) is a former Venezuelan catcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Boston Red Sox in their 1996 season. Listed at 6' 0", 160 lb., Delgado batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Palmarejo, Zulia.

In a 26-game career, Delgado posted a batting average of .250 (5-for-20) with one RBI and five runs without home runs.

Delgado also spent 18 seasons in the Minor Leagues, mostly in the Red Sox system, and had stints in the Mexican League with the Rieleros de Aguascalientes and Olmecas de Tabasco.

In between, Delgado played winter ball with four clubs of the Venezuelan League during 23 seasons spanning 1988–2011.

His teammates dubbed him El Señor de los Anillos (The Lord of the Rings), as he was a member of 11 champion teams while collecting the most Championship Series rings of any player in Venezuelan professional baseball history. Additionally, he caught for the Tigres de Aragua club that clinched the 2009 Caribbean Series title.

A dependable and durable catcher for 23 years, Delgado played more than 2,000 games in his career before retiring in 2011 at the age of 40.

See also

See also

Sources

  • [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=delgaal01 Baseball Almanac]
  • [https://www.baseball-reference.com/d/delgaal01.shtml Baseball Reference]
  • [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/D/Pdelga001.htm Retrosheet]
  • Gutiérrez, Daniel; Alvarez, Efraim; Gutiérrez (h), Daniel (2006). La Enciclopedia del Béisbol en Venezuela. LVBP, Caracas. {{ISBN|980-6996-02-X}}

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