Napoleón Calzado (born February 9, 1977) is a Dominican former Major League Baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles. He won the bronze medal in the 2000 Pan American Championship where this national team qualified for the 2001 Baseball World Cup.[1]
| Napoleón Calzado | |||||||||||||||||||||
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_(cropped).jpg) Calzado with the Long Beach Armada in 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Outfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: February 9, 1977 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
| May 29, 2005, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||||||||
| June 7, 2005, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .200 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| CPBL statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .313 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Calzado played for the Orioles in the 2005 season. In four games, he had one hit in five at bats, playing the outfield. He batted and threw right-handed. He spent his entire career, except for a portion of 2004 with the Atlanta Braves, with the Orioles after being signed as an amateur free agent in 1996. In December 2008, Calzado and 8 teammates on the dMedia T-Rex were accused of throwing games from the Chinese Professional Baseball League.[2] On June 26, 2009, Calzado signed with the Long Beach Armada, Golden Baseball League in Long Beach, California. He played with the national team in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games played in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico,[3] winning the tournament's gold medal.[4] During this tournament, Calzado was scouted and later signed by the Nicaraguan team Indios del Bóer to play the 2010–11 Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League season,[5] helping his team to win the championship.[6]
References
edit- ^ Barría, Laureano (December 3, 2000). "¡Campeones! misión cumplida". Panamá América (in Spanish). Retrieved December 13, 2017.
- ^ "Calzado y Lebrón son investigados en Taiwán por asunto de apuestas". Listin Diario (in Spanish). Taipei. DPA. October 31, 2008. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
- ^ Rodriguez, Ramon (July 28, 2010). "Sánchez guía béisbol RD a disputar presea de oro hoy". Listin Diario (in Spanish). Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
- ^ Caceres, Jose (July 28, 2010). "El país gana oro en béisbol". Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved December 13, 2017.
- ^ Hernandez, Gerald (September 11, 2010). "Bóer trae buen cañón". El Mundo (in Spanish). Managua, Nicaragua. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
- ^ Estepa Herrera, Héctor (January 30, 2011). "Bóer, tricampeón de la Liga Nacional en Nicaragua". El Mundo (in Spanish). Managua, Nicaragua. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
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