Luis García (shortstop)

{{short description|Dominican baseball player (born 1975)}}

{{other people||Luis García (disambiguation)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

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|name=Luis García

|position=Shortstop

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1975|5|20}}

|birth_place=San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 5

|debutyear=1999

|debutteam=Detroit Tigers

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 3

|finalyear=1999

|finalteam=Detroit Tigers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.111

|stat2label=Runs

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Hits

|stat3value=1

|teams=

• Detroit Tigers ({{mlby|1999}})

}}

Luis Rafael Garcia (born May 20, 1975) is a retired Major League Baseball shortstop. He played during one season at the major league level for the Detroit Tigers. He was signed by the Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1993. Garcia played his first professional season (in American baseball) with their Rookie league Bristol Tigers in 1993, and split his last season with the Triple-A teams of the Baltimore Orioles (Rochester Red Wings) and Pittsburgh Pirates (Nashville Sounds) in 2002.

Garcia's American-born son, also named Luis, signed with the Washington Nationals as an amateur free agent out of the Dominican Republic in 2016 and made his major league debut in 2020.