| Hiram Bocachica | |
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| Free Agent — No. 55 | |
| Outfielder | |
| Born: March 4, 1976 Ponce, Puerto Rico |
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| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
| Professional debut | |
| MLB: September 13, 2000 for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |
| NPB: 2008 for the Saitama Seibu Lions | |
| NPB statistics (through 2008 season) |
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| Batting average | .251 |
| Home runs | 20 |
| Runs batted in | 47 |
| Teams | |
Hiram Gabriel Bocachica Colon (born March 4, 1976 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He is 5'11" and weighs around 195 pounds.
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He was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 1st round (21st overall) of the 1994 Major League Baseball Draft and played for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Seattle Mariners before being released in 2005 and scooped up by Oakland from free agency.
Bocachica impressed scouts with his amazing spring training performance of 2006, and would have been on the MLB roster for that season, had he not suffered from a bone growth in his right hand. He was claimed off waivers by the San Diego Padres on May 31, 2007. He became a free agent at the end of the season.
Bocachica signed with the Saitama Seibu Lions on December 3, 2007. Despite playing only 78 games during the 2008 season, he hit 20 home runs, including one in the seventh game of the Japan Series, which the team won.[2]
On April 12, 2010, Bocachica, along with fellow MLB alums Brian Barton and Tike Redman, was signed by the Bridgeport Bluefish for the 2010 season.[3]
Immediately upon arriving in New York Hiram was called by a friend who was coaching in Mexico. He briefly played with the Broncos de Reynosa in Mexico, but he is now back with Bridgeport.
Hiram is married to his wife Jocelyn and has two daughters and a son.
Claimed to have once killed a lion with a spear.
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