Alvin Colina | |
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Lancaster Barnstormers | |
Catcher | |
Born: December 26, 1981 Puerto Cabello, Venezuela |
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Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
MLB debut | |
September 18, 2006 for the Colorado Rockies | |
Career statistics (through 2008 season) |
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Batting average | .200 |
Home runs | 0 |
Runs batted in | 1 |
Teams | |
Alvin Enrique Colina (born December 26, 1981 in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball catcher currently with the independent Lancaster Barnstormers.
Signed by the Colorado Rockies as an amateur free agent in 1998, Colina made his Major League Baseball debut with the Colorado Rockies on September 18, 2006, against the San Francisco Giants at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado. He collected an RBI single in his first at-bat.
Colina was designated for assignment by the Rockies September 7, 2007, and claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds on September 11. Colina did not play for the Reds and became a free agent after the season. On December 5, 2007, the Reds re-signed Colina to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. He became a free agent at the end of the 2008 season and signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Atlanta Braves in January 2009.
On March 10, 2011, he signed a contract with the Lancaster Barnstormers.[1]