Miguel Tejada
Dominican baseball player (born 1974) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Miguel Odalis Tejada (né Tejeda;[1][2] born May 25, 1974) is a Dominican former professional baseball shortstop who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for six teams, most notably the Oakland Athletics and Baltimore Orioles, before short stints with the Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, and Kansas City Royals.
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Shortstop | |||||||||||||||
Born: (1974-05-25) May 25, 1974 (age 49) Baní, Dominican Republic | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
August 27, 1997, for the Oakland Athletics | |||||||||||||||
Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||
August 10, 2013, for the Kansas City Royals | |||||||||||||||
MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
Batting average | .285 | ||||||||||||||
Hits | 2,407 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 307 | ||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 1,302 | ||||||||||||||
Teams | |||||||||||||||
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Tejada spent his first six seasons in MLB with the Athletics, where he began a streak of 1,152 consecutive games that ended with the Orioles on June 22, 2007. He is a six-time All-Star and a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner. In 2002, he won the American League Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award, and was the 2005 All-Star Game MVP. Tejada's nickname is "La Guagua", which means "the bus" in certain Spanish dialects, after his ability to drive in runs.
On February 11, 2009, he pleaded guilty to one count of perjury for lying to Congress in his testimony on whether Rafael Palmeiro lied about his steroid use.[3] On August 17, 2013, MLB suspended Tejada for 105 games for violating MLB drug policy. It was the third-longest non-lifetime suspension ever issued by MLB for a drug-related violation.[4][5]