Magglio Ordonez
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Magglio José Ordóz Delgado (born January 28, 1974) is a retired Venezuelan Major League right fielder.
He played for the Chicago White Sox (1997–2004) and the Detroit Tigers (2005–2011).
Ordórez, 5 foot 11 inches (1.80 m) tall, and weighs 215 lb (98 kg).
Ordóz, a defender who had a career of.309 batting average over 15 years, graduated from the major leagues as a Tiger on June 3, 2012 in a ceremony at Comerica Park before the afternoon game. He declared in 2013 that he would run for public office in Venezuela and was elected mayor of the Juan Antonio Sotillo Municipality on December 8, 2013.
Professional career
Ordóz was a.309 hitter with 294 home runs and 1,236 RBIs in 1,848 games during his 15-year career (through the 2011 season). 1,076 runs scored, 426 doubles,.369 on-base percentage, and.502 slugging percentage are among other notable career accomplishments. He was nominated for the All-Star Game six times (1999–2001, 2003, and 2006–07), as well as three others. (2000, 2002, and 2007) In 2007, he captured the American League batting title with an average of.363. In the AL Most Valuable Player award voting, he set a career high with 139 runs batted in and finished second runner-up to Alex Rodriguez.
Ordóz played with the Chicago White Sox for the first eight years of his major league career. Ordóez made at least.300 with 29 home runs and 99 RBI in five seasons before 2004, and he reached the 30-home run, 100-RBI plateau in four of those seasons. Willie Harris, the second baseman on Omar Vizquel's pop-up to right field during a May 19, 2004 game against the Cleveland Indians, cost him two trips to the disabled list and two surgeries on his left knee. In 52 games, he had a.292, 9 home runs, and 37 RBI. Ordóz, a 2001 student at Jose Canseco, believes Canseco poisoned Ordóz with steroids.
Ordonez was almost traded to the Boston Red Sox during the 2003 off-season. The Red Sox and Texas Rangers had been in talks for weeks about Boston acquiring the reigning American League MVP, SS Alex Rodriguez, for outfielder Manny Ramirez. The Red Sox eventually decided on principle to trade its former SS Nomar Garciaparra to Ordonez in exchange for Ordonez. The Red Sox chose not to trade Garciaparra or Ordonez as the Rodriguez-for-Ramirez trade fell through, and the Ordonez trade was also cancelled.
On February 7, 2005, Ordóz signed with the Detroit Tigers as a free agent. His five-year, $85 million contract was the second highest paid player by the Tigers to date. The deal contained a clause allowing for more than 25 days on the disabled list as a result of the same injury, and could be purchased out for $3 million at the discretion of the Tigers' leadership.
Ordóz, his former boss and teammate in Chicago, had a public spat with Ozzie Guillén, his former boss and teammate. Ordóz's release from the White Sox was due to their apparent mutual dislike for each other. The feud however, seems to have cooled, as Guillén actually ordered Ordóez for the 2006 All-Star Game.
During Ordóz' first season as a runner, he strained an abdominal muscle during the first week of the season and spent the next three months on the disabled list, as the strain proved to be a hernia. Since recovering from corrective surgery two months after the crash, he was forced to rest for two months, but the Tigers' AAA minor league team in Toledo started a rehabilitation program. He rejoined the Tigers' lineup in early July and was once more a star in the batting clean-up by hitting consistently over.300.
Ordórez returned to All-Star form in 2006. Manny Ramrez, a left fielder for the Red Sox, was named in the 2006 All-Star Game as an injury substitute. Ordóz was hitting.312 with 16 home runs and 62 RBI at the All-Star break, and he was a keystay for a Tigers team that was a major-league record 59-29 at the break.
Ordórez completed the Tigers' sweep of the ALCS on October 14, 2006, beating Huston Street of the Oakland Athletics with two outs on a 1–0 count in the ninth, the eighth time in MLB history that a post-season series has ended with a home run. The Tigers won their first World Series appearance since 1984. Coincidentally, it took place 22 years to the day the Tigers won the World Series for the first time in that year.
Ordórez had the best season of his career in 2007, finishing second in the American League MVP competition behind Alex Rodriguez. His.363 batting average, 28 home runs, and 139 RBIs could be regarded as one of the best seasons ever by a Detroit Tigers outfielder. Magglio's 2007 record and achievements include: :
Ordóz hit Minnesota's Carl Pavano on April 29, 2010 for his 2000th appearance in his career. Ordóz fractured his ankle going home on July 24. X-rays revealed a fracture that was supposed to heal in six to eight weeks, but just weeks after the injury, Magglio will miss the remainder of the season. The Tigers turned down Ordóz's $15 million bid for 2011.
The Tigers re-signed Ordóz to a one-year, $10 million deal on December 16, 2010.
Ordóz fractured the ankle with the Texas Rangers on October 8, 2011, and he was suspended for the remainder of the 2011 season.
Ordóez will not make a contract for the 2012 season, according to Tigers general manager David Dombrowski, making him a free agent. Ordonez would have announced his resignation within the week, according to a report on May 29, 2012.
Ordóez officially retired from major league baseball in a celebration at Comerica Park on June 3, 2012.
Ordórez co-owner of Venezuelan professional baseball team Caribes de Anzotegui, a team he briefly played for before heading to the United States in 2013.