Arquimedez Pozo
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Arquimedez Pozo (born 1973) is a baseball player who played briefly in the major leagues in the mid-1990s for the Seattle Mariners and the Boston Red Sox. He was born in the Dominican Republic. Pozo's primary position was third base, though he also played occasional second. In his third game with the Red Sox, on July 28, 1996, he hit a grand slam off of Minnesota Twins relief pitcher Eddie Guardado. It was the only home run of Pozo's career. After compiling a career batting average of only .189, he played his last major-league game at the age of 23.
Pozo is remembered in Boston not for anything he achieved, but rather for what he was once expected to achieve. Traded to the Red Sox in 1996 for an unsung third-baseman named Jeff Manto (who was re-acquired by Boston later that summer), Pozo was later described by General Manager Dan Duquette as a future top-notch infielder and the long-awaited successor to the great Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs. Duquette was fired on February 28, 2002.
Pozo holds the dubious distinction of being the only player in major league history to be named "Arquimedez" and the only one to be named "Pozo." Other players with two unique names, a rare distinction, include Carsten "C.C." Sabathia, Nomar Garciaparra, and Shigetoshi Hasegawa.
