Allan de San Miguel
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Born: 1 February 1988 Bentley, Western Australia, Australia | |||
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Allan Murray de San Miguel (born 1 February 1988) is an Australian professional baseball catcher in the Kansas City Royals organization. He is also the starting catcher for the Melbourne Aces of the Australian Baseball League. He attended South Fremantle Senior High School in Perth, Western Australia. He has earned high praise for his leadership and clubhouse skills.
Australian Baseball League
De San Miguel was the starting catcher for the Perth Heat of the Australian Baseball League for six seasons from 2010 through 2015. In 2016, he joined the Melbourne Aces. He is a career .270/.382/.452 hitter with 39HRs in 279 games in the ABL. He is a four-time ABL Champion with the Heat, who won in 2010-11, 2011–12, 2013–14, and 2014–15, and de San Miguel was named MVP of the 2014-15 Championship Series.
Professional career
He was added to the Minnesota Twins organization as an undrafted free agent on August 18, 2004. He split time between all levels of the Twins organization, from Rookie League to AAA, as an organizational catcher until the Twins released him in 2011.
In 2012, de San Miguel signed a minor league contract with the Baltimore Orioles following a strong showing in the ABL. He split time between A+ Frederick, AA Bowie, and AAA Norfolk, batting .239/.331/.399 and 6HRs in 63 games. He was invited to Spring Training with the Orioles in 2013, and spent the entire season in A+ Frederick, batting .240/.366/.421 with 10HRs in 65 games.
In 2015, he returned to the Twins organization, but appeared in only 3 games for Rochester, the Twins' AAA affiliate.
In 2016, de San Miguel signed a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals, batting .187/.248/.264 in 30 games between AAA Omaha and AA Northwest Arkansas.
Independent Baseball
De San Miguel spent one season as the starting catcher for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He batted .203/.289/.332 with 5HR in 61 games for the Blue Crabs.
World Baseball Classic
In 2009, he was a provisional member of the Australia national baseball team at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. Australia was eliminated in the first round of the tournament and placed 12th of 16 teams with a record of 1-2. De San Miguel did not play in the tournament.
In 2013, he returned with the team for the 2013 World Baseball Classic, for which Australia automatically qualified. Australia finished in last place out of sixteen teams, having lost three games in the first round to Chinese Taipei, South Korea, and the Netherlands. De San Miguel went 0-for-3 with a strikeout against Korea, and replaced Matt Kennelly late in the game against the Netherlands, striking out in his only appearance.
In 2016, de San Miguel caught for Australia in the 2017 World Baseball Classic – Qualifier 1, which occurred February 11–14, 2016. Australia defeated the Philippines and South Africa twice to advance in the tournament. He appeared in all three games, going 2-for-11 with a walk and a strike out.
De San Miguel returned in 2017 to compete in the World Baseball Classic with the Australia national baseball team. Australia was eliminated in the first round, losing to both Japan and Cuba. De San Miguel had a strong series, going 5-for-9 with one walk and three strikeouts. He hit a solo home run off of Tomoyuki Sugano in the second inning of the first game against Japan.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)