Junior Ortiz Trades and Transactions

The Junior Ortiz trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where Junior Ortiz has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball.

"Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. If we had lost today, the guys would have beat the hell out of me." - Junior Ortiz in "It's Gone!...No, Wait a Minute..." by Ken Levine (1993)

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Junior Ortiz

Junior Ortiz Autograph on a 1990 Score (#143)

Junior Ortiz Autograph on a 1990 Score (#143)
 

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Birth Name:   Adalberto Colon Ortiz
Nickname:   Junior
Born On:   10-24-1959  (Scorpio)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Humacao, Puerto Rico
Year of Death Data Died On:   Still Living
Place of Death Data Died In:   Still Living
Cemetery:   n/a
High School:   Undetermined
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   5-11   Player Weight Chart Weight:   176
First Game:   09-20-1982 (Age 22)
Last Game:   08-08-1994
Draft:   Undrafted Free Agent
Junior Ortiz

Trades & Transactions

01-18-1977: Signed as an amateur free agent by Pittsburgh Pirates.
06-14-1983: Traded by Pittsburgh Pirates to New York Mets for Marvell Wynne and Steve Senteney.
12-03-1984: Selected by Pittsburgh Pirates from New York Mets in the Rule 5 major league draft.
04-04-1990: Traded by Pittsburgh Pirates to Minnesota Twins.
11-11-1991: Granted free agency.
12-16-1991: Signed by Cleveland Indians.
10-30-1992: Granted free agency.
12-08-1992: Signed by Cleveland Indians.
10-29-1993: Granted free agency.
12-20-1993: Signed by Cleveland Indians.
03-23-1994: Traded by Cleveland Indians to Texas Rangers.
10-13-1994: Granted free agency.
12-09-1994: Signed by Chicago White Sox.


Did you know that during the physical, if a team finds out that the player received during a trade is injured they may return the player to the originating team within ten days from the date the trade was made and void the entire contract?

The Baseball Almanac trades and transactions database includes Rule 5 Draft picks, free agency information, voided trades, waiver picks, expansion draft data, amateur draft data, player refusals, bonus babies, and many other types of not readily found anywhere on the Internet.

Baseball trades & transactions, like the Junior Ortiz trades and transactions seen above, are an evolving field of research where new discoveries are often found and new player debuts are added to the data set almost daily.

     

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