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José Joaquín Bautista biography
Date of birth : 1964-07-25
Date of death : -
Birthplace : Baní, Dominican Republic
Nationality : Dominican
Category : Sports
Last modified : 2010-08-31
Credited as : Baseball player MBL, played for the New York Mets, coached the Burlington Bees
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Baseball career
Bautista was signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent in April 1981. In 1984 he was 13-4 with a 3.13 ERA for Columbia in the South Atlantic League, and in 1985 he was 15-8 with a 2.34 ERA for Lynchburg in the Carolina League.
Bautista spent seven years in the New York Mets system before being selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the December 1987 rule 5 draft. He joined the Orioles rotation in 1988, spending four years with them before moving to the Chicago Cubs (1993-94), San Francisco Giants (1995-96), Detroit Tigers (1997), and St. Louis Cardinals (1997).
As a rookie he went 6-15 with 76 strikeouts and a 4.30 ERA in 171⅔ innings, including 25 starts and three complete games, but he never was able to fulfill the potential that he showed in his season debut.
He resurfaced as a reliever with the Cubs in 1993, going 10-3 with a 2.82 ERA and 111⅔ innings in 58 appearances (7 as a starter). He kept batters to a .193 batting average in games that were late and close.
After going 4-5 for Chicago in 1994 while pitching in 58 games (2nd in the league), he pitched with San Francisco the next two years and spent 1997 with Detroit and St. Louis for his last Major League season.
In a nine-season career, Bautista posted a 32-42 record with 328 strikeouts and a 4.04 ERA in 312 games, including three saves, 49 starts, 4 complete games, and 685⅔ innings of work.
Coaching career
Bautista was a pitching coach for the Burlington Bees in 2001-02, for the Idaho Falls Chukars in 2004-06, and for the Burlington Royals in 2007. He is now the manager for the Great Falls Voyagers, the Chicago White Sox advanced A rookie team. In 2010 became Chicago white Sox Latin rovin Instructor