Luis Jiménez (baseball)

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Luis Antonio Jiménez (born May 7, 1982 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela) is a first baseman in Minor League Baseball. He currently has a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals organization. Jiménez throws and bats left-handed.

Signed by the Oakland Athletics on January 18, 1999, Jiménez has played for various minor league teams for the A's, the Baltimore Orioles, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Minnesota Twins before being signed by the Boston Red Sox to a minor league contract on February 1, 2006. With the Portland Sea Dogs in 2006, Jiménez hit 17 home runs and batted in 70 runs, earning a .276 average. The Boston Red Sox organization re-signed him to a minor league contract on December 20, 2006 and invited him to participate in the Red Sox' 2007 Spring Training.^[1] During his season as a member of the Bowie Baysox, he hit 22 home runs while batting .328. On November 27, 2007, the Washington Nationals signed him to a minor league contract. He began the 2008 season with the Class AA Harrisburg Senators.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061220&content_id=1765232&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos "Sox sign eight to Minor League deals", mlb.com, 12/20/2006

[edit] External links

• Minor League Baseball stats
• The Baseball Cube
• Portland Sea Dogs roster
• [http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?n=Luis%20Antonio%20Jimenez&pos=1B&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=455921
• [http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071127&content_id=2312592&vkey=news_was&fext=.jsp&c_id=was