Edgar Renteria

Edgar Renteria is the newest Tiger

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EDIT2: Table also removed! I'll figure this out someday!

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	Games	AVG	HR	RBI	SB	SLG
2007	124	.332	12	57	11	.470
Career	1722	.291	117	622	74	.470

Do whatever you want with these stats!

How old is this guy anyways??

mrsrabelo wrote:

How old is this guy anyways??

Renteria was born on 9/7/75 which would make him 32 years old.

mrsrabelo wrote:

How old is this guy anyways??

Good question, that's a lot of games

bobrob2004 wrote:

mrsrabelo wrote:

How old is this guy anyways??

Renteria was born on 9/7/75 which would make him 32 years old.

and how old is Carlos? dang they are the same age. I was gunna say if this guy is older than Carlos... I would be soo much madder(its a word I made it lol)

Madder is def a word I've already used it twice I think... ughhhhhhhh

Edgar Rentería

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(pronounced as IPA: [ˌɾenteˈɾia]) (born August 7, 1975 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a shortstop in Major League Baseball who plays for the Detroit Tigers (as of 2008). He is also the first Colombian to play in the World Series.

Profile

Rentería has a compact swing and drives the ball to all fields. He is a patient, fundamentally-sound hitter, particularly adept at driving the ball to the right side. Like most hitters with the innate ability to hit the other way, Renteria has spent most of his career batting second in lineups. On the bases, he reads pitchers' moves well, usually getting good jumps which account for his consistent stolen base totals. Although widely regarded a shy person, Renteria often takes time out of his busy life to meet with fans and sign autographs. This fan-friendly nature, in fact, inspired a group of Atlanta fans to dress up in egg costumes, calling themselves Edgar's Eggs.

Accomplishments

• Hit a two-out walk-off single in the bottom of the eleventh of Game 7 to win the 1997 World Series for the Florida Marlins. During the 1997 regular season, he drove in walk-off runs five times in extra innings.
  
• Five-time All-Star (1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006)
  
• Two-time Gold Glove Award winner (2002-03)
  
• Three-Time Silver Slugger Award winner for shortstop (2000, 2002-03)
  
• Had a 24 game hitting streak spanning the last game of 2005 and his
  first 23 games of 2006. His 23 game single season streak was the second longest ever to start a season.
  
• Renteria is one of only three players to be the last hitter of two
  World Series, having won the 1997 Series with a walk-off RBI single and ended the 2004 World Series with a groundout to the pitcher. Boss Schmidt of the Detroit Tigers ended the 1907 World Series by popping up and the 1908 World Series by grounding out. Goose Goslin struck out to end the 1925 World Series and won the 1935 World Series with a walk-off RBI single.
  
• In addition to being the last hitter of two World Series, Edgar
  also has completed a rare feat-to make the consecutive last and first
  at bats of two seasons. At the end of the 2004 World Series, with the
  St.Louis Cardinals, Renteria made the final at-bat with a groundout.
  Also, he made the first at bat of the 2005 season, in the season
  opening game, with the Boston Red Sox.
  

Lowlights

The 2005 season was a disappointing one for Rentería. Replacing fellow Colombian and fan favorite Orlando Cabrera at shortstop, who had jump started the World Series winning team the year before, and Nomar Garciaparra before him, was not an easy job. Rentería committed a major league-leading and career high 30 errors in 2005, blaming the poor onditions of the field. He also pointed to an injury when he "pulled [his] lower back and leg" [1] Although much maligned for his defensive problems in 2005, Rentería scored 100 runs in a season for the first time in his career. Coincidentally, the season before, Rentería was the Cardinals' final out in the World Series when the Boston Red Sox won their first championship since 1918. The next year, he was the last out in the American League Division Series for the Red Sox when the Chicago White Sox defeated Boston and went on to win the World Series. Rentería was traded by Theo Epstein after the 2005 season to the Atlanta Braves for prospect Andy Marte. Healthy and seemingly more relaxed in 2006, Rentería has returned to the form that made him such a valuable shortstop for many years in the National League. Due to his poor play, Renteria also became fodder for the local sports shows. WEEI (the Boston Sports Radio Station) nicknamed him "Rente-error and Rent-A-Wreck."

Atlanta Braves: A return to form

After his trade to the Braves, Renteria proved his year with the Red Sox was indeed a fluke. In 2006, Renteria batted .293 with 14 homers and 70 RBI. In the same year he only committed 13 errors, as opposed to 30 in his year with Boston. He quickly became an integral key to the Atlanta Braves, hitting ahead of Chipper Jones.

In 2007, Renteria saw an even greater increase in production. On August 2, Renteria sprained his ankle while fielding a groundball to shortstop and was placed in the 15-day DL. This was his first trip to the DL in his career and put a definite strain on obtaining 200 hits. Renteria was activated on August 22 and was put in the lineup, but left the game after tweaking the ankle after the first pitch he saw. He subsequently returned to the disabled list a day later. He was activated on September 7 and played a day later going 2-for-4. He finished batting .332 (4th in the NL and a new career-high) with 12 homers.

On October 29th, 2007 Renteria was traded to Detroit for young pitching prospect Jair Jurrjens and outfielder Gorkys Hernandez.

I hope that his NL stats convert well into the AL. His last AL stint didn't go so well.

I hope "giving up the farm" - 2 of our top prospects - wasn't a big mistake!!

tigersaint wrote:

I hope that his NL stats convert well into the AL. His last AL stint didn't go so well.

I hope "giving up the farm" - 2 of our top prospects - wasn't a big mistake)

I think he'll be fine. He's not a pitcher so his odds are a little better...

Anybody wanna buy a Jurrjens AUTO card??

tigersaint wrote:

Anybody wanna buy a Jurrjens AUTO card??

LOL! I have a Nook Logan autograph!

Everything I have signed by him was before he made his first start in Cleveland!

mrsrabelo wrote:

Everything I have signed by him was before he made his first start in Cleveland!

You must have like a million autographs! I'm jealous!

I have a ball with most of the guys on it and thats really all I have. I have a Grilli jersey signed by Jason and Steve, a Pudge shirt signed, a game used(well batting practice) ball that Jason gave to me and then I had him sign it, a Mike signed jersey, and a Jurrjens signed shirt. Not too many special people, just the little ones.

mrsrabelo wrote:

I have a ball with most of the guys on it

SoulRat wrote:

mrsrabelo wrote:

I have a ball with most of the guys on it

Their autographs. Not them personally.

oh... darn

Just kidding, that would be awesome!

mrsrabelo wrote:

I have a ball with most of the guys on it and thats really all I have. I have a Grilli jersey signed by Jason and Steve, a Pudge shirt signed, a game used(well batting practice) ball that Jason gave to me and then I had him sign it, a Mike signed jersey, and a Jurrjens signed shirt. Not too many special people, just the little ones.

The only signed ball I have from a current player is Fernando Rodney. Too bad it wasn't Verlander....or even Granderson. Oh well, at least Rodney was a nice enough guy to sign something for me (I could have got Miner, Durbin, or Grilli but I only had 1 ball that day...I bought another ball but only Rodney was signing the next 2 days...)

That's just too bad about the Durbin autograph.......I'm proud of mine!!

cdurbfan22 wrote:

That's just too bad about the Durbin autograph.......I'm proud of mine!!

Out of those guys I went with Rodney. If I'd have known nobody else would do much signing the next 2 days I would've picked someone else...probably Miner or Durbin.

You mean your sister's boyfriend went up to Rodney...(I have no idea how I remember that)

cdurbfan22 wrote:

You mean your sister's boyfriend went up to Rodney...(I have no idea how I remember that)

Yeah, I didn't ask. I'm a chicken!

catbox_9 wrote:

cdurbfan22 wrote:

You mean your sister's boyfriend went up to Rodney...(I have no idea how I remember that)

Yeah, I didn't ask. I'm a chicken!

hahaha chickenlegs though I hope...

SoulRat wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

cdurbfan22 wrote:

You mean your sister's boyfriend went up to Rodney...(I have no idea how I remember that)

Yeah, I didn't ask. I'm a chicken!

hahaha chickenlegs though I hope...

I haven't measured the lenth/width/etc. of my legs in proportion to the rest of my body so I'm not sure....

Ok... good...

SoulRat wrote:

Ok... good...

What if I had?

I dunno... I would have to think of something to say?

Giving away Jurrjens is good for Miller i guess! Increases his chances of getting a place in the rotation next year.
Should make SoulRat really happy!

swiss_tiger wrote:

Giving away Jurrjens is good for Miller i guess! Increases his chances of getting a place in the rotation next year.
Should make SoulRat really happy!

Yeah, but she's worried that he's not ready! I think she's going to be disappointed with Mr. Miller no matter what!