Danny Garcia (outfielder)

Daniel R. Garcia (born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for one season. He played for the Kansas City Royals for 12 games during the 1981 season.

Raised in Queens, New York, Garcia studied psychology at Baruch College. He was a batboy for the 1973 NL Champs New York Mets and a former member of the 1974 Alaska Goldpanners baseball team.

Garcia was drafted by the Royals in the 11th round of the 1975 Major League Baseball Draft. A scrappy 7-year minor league journeyman, he played in 825 minor league games compiling 821 hits, a .288 batting avg. and 200 stolen bases. Garcia enjoyed his best year in 1980 at AAA Omaha Royals batting.320 good for 4th place in the American Association. During the spring of '82 he tied a Mexican League record with 10 consecutive hits for the Mexico City Tigers. He retired after the 1982 season batting .378 for AA Buffalo Bisons. He played 2 years of winter ball in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League for the Tiburones de La Guaira and the Caracas Lions '80 and '81. Later in his career, he went to Australia, as a player/coach with the Brisbane Bandits of the Australian Baseball League.

From 1990-1992 he was a minor league hitting coach for the San Diego Padres. 1992-1999 he became a Major League scout for the Milwaukee Brewers before being named a Special Assistant to the GM, Player Personnel for the Baltimore Orioles 1999-2003. He is a baseball consultant, and motivational speaker with over 30 years of professional baseball experience as a player, coach, scout and front office executive. He is of Cuban descent, and lives in New York.

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference