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Omar Quintanilla
Quintanilla while with the Colorado RockiesSecond baseman / Shortstop Born: October 24, 1981
El Paso, TexasBats: Left Throws: Right MLB debut July 31, 2005 for the Colorado Rockies Career statistics
(through 2008 season)Batting average .226 Home runs 2 Runs batted in 30 Teams - Colorado Rockies (2005–2009)
- Texas Rangers (2011)
Omar Quintanilla (born October 24, 1981, in El Paso, Texas) is an American professional baseball infielder who is a free agent.
Early life
He attended Socorro High School in El Paso, Texas, where he led the city of El Paso in home runs, RBI, and was elected to the Texas All-State shortstop. After graduating, he received a scholarship to the University of Texas, Austin, where he played second base, third base, and shortstop, and appeared in two national championship games, winning one.
Baseball career
He was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 1st round (33rd overall) of the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft. In 2003, he played for Low-A Vancouver and High-A Modesto, batting .358 in 40 games. He started 2004 with Modesto as the A's 7th ranked prospect and after hitting .315 received a late-season promotion to Double-A Midland. He began 2005 with Midland as the A's 8th ranked prospect and on July 15, he was traded along with outfielder Eric Byrnes to the Colorado Rockies for pitchers Joe Kennedy and Jay Witasick. The Rockies assigned him to Triple-A Colorado Springs and promoted him to the majors in late July. He made his debut on July 31 and went 1-3. In each of the next three seasons, Quintanilla began the season with Triple-A Colorado Springs and was promoted to the majors at least once each season. In limited at-bats, he had his highest batting average in 2008 at .238.
The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced August 11, 2010, that Quintanilla had received a 50-game suspension after testing positive for Methylhexaneamine, a performance-enhancing substance, in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
Quintanilla signed with the Texas Rangers after the season and in July 2011, he had his contract purchased by Texas after hitting .298 in 51 games with Triple-A Round Rock. On August 1, he was outrighted to back to Round Rock and elected free agency. Overall with the Rangers, he hit .045 in 11 games, with two RBI.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Oakland Athletics first-round draft picks 1965: Rick Monday | 1966: Reggie Jackson | 1967: Brian Bickerton | 1968: Pete Broberg | 1969: Don Stanhouse | 1970: Dan Ford | 1971: William Daniels | 1972: Chet Lemon | 1973: Randy Scarbery | 1974: Jerry Johnson | 1975: Bruce Robinson | 1976: Thomas Sullivan | 1977: Craig Harris | 1978: Mike Morgan, Tim Conroy | 1979: Juan Bustabad, Mike Stenhouse | 1980: Mike King | 1981: Tim Pyznarski | 1982: No first round pick | 1983: Stan Hilton | 1984: Mark McGwire | 1985: Walt Weiss | 1986: Scott Hemond | 1987: Lee Tinsley | 1988: Stan Royer | 1989: No first round pick | 1990: Todd Van Poppel, Don Peters, David Zancanaro, Kirk Dressendorfer | 1991: Brent Gates, Mike Rossiter | 1992: Benji Grigsby | 1993: John Wasdin, Willie Adams | 1994: Ben Grieve | 1995: Ariel Prieto | 1996: Eric Chavez | 1997: Chris Enochs, Eric DuBose, Nathan Haynes, Denny Wagner | 1998: Mark Mulder | 1999: Barry Zito | 2000: No first round pick | 2001: Bobby Crosby, Jeremy Bonderman, John Rheinecker | 2002: Nick Swisher, Joe Blanton, John McCurdy, Ben Fritz, Jeremy Brown, Stephen Obenchain, Mark Teahen | 2003: Bradley Sullivan, Brian Snyder, Omar Quintanilla | 2004: Richard Robnett, Danny Putnam, Huston Street | 2005: Cliff Pennington, Travis Buck | 2006: No first round pick | 2007: James Simmons, Sean Doolittle, Corey Brown | 2008: Jemile Weeks | 2009: Grant Green | 2010: Michael Choice | 2011: Sonny GrayCategories:- 1981 births
- Living people
- Baseball players from Texas
- Colorado Rockies players
- Texas Rangers players
- Major League Baseball shortstops
- Major League Baseball second basemen
- Texas Longhorns baseball players
- American baseball players of Mexican descent
- People from El Paso, Texas
- Vancouver Canadians players
- Modesto A's players
- Midland RockHounds players
- Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
- Round Rock Express players
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