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Rafael Palmeiro

 
Rafael Palmeiro Corrales was born on September 24, 1964 in Havana, Cuba. He made a major league debut in the jersey of Chicago Cubs on September 8, 1986. He also spent time with the Texas Rangers (1989-1993 and 1999-2003). He played in Baltimore Orioles from 1994 through 1998. In 2004 once again he became the acquisition of the Baltimore Orioles after signing a one-year deal. He holds the peculiarity of playing in most of the Major League Baseball (2721) but never reached the World Series. Sabermetrics consistently depreciated him because he never played in a big baseball city even. Palmeiro is an unusual case of anomaly because he did not hit his stride until after the age of 30. After that for nine seasons in a streak he began to hit 30-plus home runs and batting in 100-plus runs.
 

He has the distinction of recording the greatest number of career home runs for a player who never led his league in that category. Palmeiro played in the same league, which featured the sackers like Mark McGwire and Frank Thomas. On September 23, 2000, he hit his 400th HR. He became the only 19th player to reach the 500-home run level on May 12, 2003 and also the foremost player in history to have led his league in singles. He ranks 10th on the all-time list of homers with total of 551 homers. Palmeiro’s influence plummeted considerably in 1988, though he hit .307 and made the All-Star team. He garnered only 53 runs and had no game-winning RBIs. Though his defense was impeccable in the outfield at the plate but he was rusticated as an opposite-field singles hitter. After having been procured by the Texas Rangers in December 1988 Palmeiro replaced first baseman Pete O’Brien. After starting the 1989 campaign, his career started ascending.

 

 

Rafael Palmeiro
 

He moved into the category of premier sluggers either by setting or tying career highs. He continued to improve by each passing season and in 1993 37 longjacks and drove in 105 RBIs. He mastered the finer details of playing at first base and garnered three straight Golden Gloves from 1997-99. In his career he never spent time on the disabled list. Palmeiro always desired to play for the Rangers but the team signed former Mississippi State teammate Will Clark. As a consequence he signed the Baltimore Orioles in 1993 and helped the club to lead in LCS in 1996 and 1997. Though the team didn’t win championship both times but Palmeiro contributed three dingers, drove in seven runs and scored six times in the two series.

When the powerful Orioles started to lose their dominance Palmeiro returned to the Rangers as a free agent in December 1998.  He set career highs in batting average (.324), homers (47), and RBIs (148) in 1999 and helped the Rangers to win the ALDS. In the following year he contributed 39 dingers with 120 ribbies.

Palmeiro's greatest delight was when he eventually re-united with his older brother Jose after 21 years of separation.