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Angel Echevarria

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Angel Echevarria
Echevarria with theMilwaukee Brewersin 2001
Outfielder
Born:(1971-05-25)May 25, 1971
Bridgeport, Connecticut,U.S.
Died:February 7, 2020(2020-02-07)(aged 48)
Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Batted:Right
Threw:Right
Professional debut
MLB:July 15, 1996, for the Colorado Rockies
NPB:March 28, 2003, for the Nippon-Ham Fighters
Last appearance
MLB:September 29, 2002, for the Chicago Cubs
NPB:October 11, 2004, for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
MLB statistics
Batting average.280
Home runs21
Runs batted in90
NPB statistics
Batting average.268
Home runs47
Runs batted in138
Teams

Angel Santos Echevarria(May 25, 1971 – February 7, 2020) was an American professionalbaseballplayer who playedoutfieldin the Major Leagues from 1996 to 2002. He also played in the JapanesePacific League,from 2003 to 2004.[1]

Amateur career

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Echevarria was a star baseball player atBassick High Schoolin Bridgeport, Connecticut, graduating in 1989.[2]Over his junior and senior seasons, he managed abatting averageof.500.[3]

He accepted a partial scholarship to playcollege baseballfor theRutgers Scarlet Knightswhere he was an All-Atlantic 10 Conferenceselection.[3]In 1991 he playedcollegiate summer baseballwith theOrleans Cardinalsof theCape Cod Baseball League.[4][5]

Echevarria was selected by theColorado Rockiesin the 17th round of the1992 Major League Baseball draft.

Professional career

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Echevarria was areplacement playerduring the1994–95 Major League Baseball strikeand played an exhibition game atCoors Fieldin front of 47,000 fans in the spring of 1995, more than a full year before his actual Major League debut.[6]

Death

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Echevarria had been sick with a stomach virus for a number of days; he then fell and hit his head at his home. He died on February 7, 2020, at the age of 48.[7]

References

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  1. ^"Ex-MLB player and Bridgeport native Angel Echevarria dies at 48".connecticut.news12.RetrievedFebruary 8,2020.
  2. ^Ex-Big Leaguer From CT Dies Suddenly At 48
  3. ^abGonzalez, Roberto (May 19, 1996)."Echevarria on his way up".Hartford Courant.p. C12.RetrievedJune 3,2022.
  4. ^Bergen, Doug (June 11, 1991)."On Sports".The Cape Codder.Orleans, MA. p. 21.
  5. ^"Player Stats".Cape Cod Baseball League.RetrievedJuly 13,2023.
  6. ^Cloutier, Bill (April 6, 1995)."Ravens expect to fly just as high in season 2".Record-Journal.p. 33.RetrievedJune 3,2022.
  7. ^"Ex-MLB player and Bridgeport native Angel Echevarria dies at 48".connecticut.news12.RetrievedFebruary 9,2020.
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