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Jose Bautista

Jose Bautista was born in 1980 and he is a baseball right fielder of Dominican origins. He plays for Toronto Blue Jays under MLB. For his professional career, he started the career while playing in Pittsburgh Pirates when he was chosen at 20th round in 2000 first year player draft. He was the 26th member for 50 home run club and he was leading major league in the home runs for two consecutive seasons.

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From 2010 until 2015, he has been able to hit the most home runs in all players in the entire major leagues. He was a MLB All-star for six times and he got the Silver Slugger Awards three times and got Hank Aaron Award two times. He had been granted to get American League Player for the Month Award for five times and for tour times; he became the Player of the Week. Before Jose Bautista was traded to join Blue Jays, he was playing for the Third Base.

Even if the scouts for the major league saw him when he was still in junior college because of hitting power and batting skills, he was only able to realize the full potential when it was 2010. He started to play with MLB under Baltimore Orioles of 2004. In that year, he was the player who was seen five times on the MLB rosters in just one season.

The last team was Pirates and he played in the games in five different positions when he was utility player up to the time he was traded and joined Blue Jays in the year 2008. He made some adjustments on his swing and he was able to break through with ten home runs in the year 2009. He had been voted to be among the top ten of AL. He was given four times the awards of Most Valuable Player and he is a leader in many offensive single seasons and for the career categories in the franchise history of Blue Jays.

In the year 2010, Jose Bautista was able to hit up to 27 home runs every year and in four seasons, he hit over 35 home runs. He was able to score and to drive in for over 100 runs.

From his biography, Jose Bautista was born in the middle-class family and more stress was put on education. He started to learn English when he was eight years. The mother was a financial planner and accountant. His father had a master degree of Agricultural engineering gotten from Hungary. He was running a poultry farms. He went to a private high school called De La Salle High School of Santo Domingo.

His partner is Neisha Croyle and she is the mother of his daughter. His twitter account is @JoeyBats19. His stats can be read online and from the twitter account of Team Bautista. His contract with Toronto Blue Jays of five years was worth 65,000,000 dollars.

 


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 19 Oct, 1980
Age: 39 yrs
Occupations: Baseball player
Citizenship: Dominican Republic
Birth Place: Santo Domingo
Education: Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
Gender: Male
Description: Dominican Republic baseball player
Twitter Id: Joeybats19
Net Worth 2021: 35 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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