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Galarraga was a five-time National League (NL) All-Star, won two NL Gold Glove Awards and two NL Silver Slugger Awards, and won two MLB Comeback Player of the Year Awards, the second time after his successful return to baseball following cancer treatment.
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Andrés Galarraga. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com.
A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Galarraga last played in the major leagues with San Francisco in 2003. He batted .301 (82/272) with 36 runs scored, 15 doubles, 12 home runs and 42 RBI in 110 games. Galarraga owns a career .288 (2330/8086) average with 398 home runs and 1,423 RBI in 2250 games.
Jun 6, 2020 · After one brief Spring Training flirtation with the Mets in 2005, Galarraga retired, having put together one of the most deeply pleasant, and downright inspirational, careers in recent baseball history. And he was smiling until the very end. Baseball doesn’t always make you happy. But Andrés Galarraga, the Big Cat? He always did.
Jan 4, 2012 · Andrés Jose Padovani Galarraga was known as the Big Cat, or El Gran Gato, during his 19-year major-league baseball career, a career in which he became the Colorado Rockies’ first big star. He looked like a slugger but what made him so popular, and helped secure his nickname, was his quickness around the first-base bag.
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