Aarom Baldiris
Aarom Baldiris | |||
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Baldiris with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars
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Samsung Lions – No. 52 | |||
Third baseman | |||
Born: Caracas, Venezuela |
January 5, 1983 |||
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debut | |||
May 15, 2008, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||
Career statistics (through 2013 season) |
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Batting average | .274 | ||
Hits | 558 | ||
Home runs | 63 | ||
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Aarom German Baldiris (born January 5, 1983) is a Venezuelan professional baseball third baseman for the Samsung Lions of Korea Baseball Organization. He previously played for the Hanshin Tigers. 2008 was his first year playing in Nippon Pro Baseball with the Tigers. He wears #52 and is a third baseman. He bats and throws right-handed.
Minor league career
Bardiris was originally drafted by the New York Mets out of high school at the age of seventeen. He started off at the Rookie-Class Venezuelan Summer League and played there until 2002, and missed the entire 2001 season due to an injury. He was called up to Single-A Brooklyn in 2002, then to Double-A Binghamton in 2004. He played for the Texas Rangers organization in 2006. He was acquired by the New York Yankees in 2007 and put on their 40-man roster in September 2007.[citation needed]
Career in the Japanese league
Baldiris left the Yankees and signed to play in NPB in 2008. There, the Hanshin Tigers selected him to be on the team's #1 roster. He struggled the first couple of weeks, but as the season went on, his batting average rose. On July 5, 2009 in a game against the Yakult Swallows, Baldiris hit his first NPB Home Run. It was a lead off home run off Masanori Ishikawa. He would later be chosen as one of the "Heroes" of that game along with the Tigers starting pitcher, Yasutomo Kubo.[citation needed]
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- アーロム・バルディリス - Stats at the official Hanshin Tigers Web site
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles with unsourced statements from July 2011
- Pages using baseballstats with unknown parameters
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Arizona League Rangers players
- Binghamton Mets players
- Brooklyn Cyclones players
- Capital City Bombers players
- Frisco RoughRiders players
- Kingsport Mets players
- Nippon Professional Baseball infielders
- Oklahoma City RedHawks players
- Hanshin Tigers players
- Orix Buffaloes players
- Yokohama DeNA BayStars players
- People from Caracas
- St. Lucie Mets players
- Trenton Thunder players
- Samsung Lions players
- Venezuelan baseball players
- Expatriate baseball players in South Korea
- Venezuelan expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Venezuelan expatriates in the United States