Hernandez, Cubas and the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation are negotiating with Bahamian authorities for their release. Orlando Hernndez Pedroso (born October 11, 1965), nicknamed "El Duque" (Spanish for "The Duke"), is a Cuban-born right-handed former professional baseball pitcher. 1998. at a Coral Gables NASSAU, BAHAMAS (AP) _ Cuban pitcher Orlando ``El Duque Hernandez, his wife and another baseball player, who escaped from Cuba on a small boat, were cleared by the State Department on Wednesday to enter the United States. Investigators said it looked like Regalado was only after women. He also won a World Series ring in 2005 with the Chicago White Sox. During his banishment from baseball in Cuba, Orlando Hernandez toiled as a physical therapist in a mental hospital for less than $10 a month. It was the worst mass murder in the city's history. 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A gunman who shot and killed his wife and three other women at a South Florida restaurant before committing suicide was the half-brother of former baseball star Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez. Thats it.. El Duque was a classic everything-but-the-kitchen-sink kind of pitcher, one who would throw whatever he could toward the strike zone, using that leg kick and multiple release points to get hitters out. Javascript is required for the selection of a player. Hernandez even helped a busy waitstaff bus tables and hand out menus, so the thought of him being nervous quickly escaped Torres mind. Its good. He was the 1997 World Series most valuable player for the Florida Marlins and his mother was allowed to fly from Cuba to Miami to visit him just before Game 7. New York Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez and Noris Bosch -- who survived rough waters after setting off in a boat together from Cuba in 1997 -- tied the knot Monday, Valentine's Day. Police say that after the shooting Regaldo fled the scene in one victim's car and was found a few blocks away, dead of an apparent suicide with the same weapon used in the restaurant rampage. Where things stand in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial But major-league officials, who have scouting reports on the two Hernandez players, had little information on Pedroso or Medina. Hernndez went 8-5 with a 3.64 ERA and one save in 24 games (22 starts). "[citation needed] Then, on August 20, 2006, at Shea Stadium, Hernndez had the first stolen base of his career. from the SABR BioProject, More Orlando Hernndez Pages at Baseball Reference. "He didn't play in any league," said Milton Jamail, a University of Texas professor and Baseball Weekly writer who is writing a book on Cuban baseball. Two hundred forty-three years after -- free country. He was one of their best pitchers during the regular season, finishing 12-4 with a 3.13 earned run average. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. The White Sox reached the World Series and swept the Houston Astros to seal their first championship since 1917. As a non-U.S. resident, however, he was able to negotiate as a free agent. Former Cuban baseball pitcher Orlando el Duque Hernandez pledged Monday from the Bahamas to stand by five fellow rafters from his homeland, but his common-law wife quickly took advantage of a U.S. offer of asylum, flying to Miami. Orlando Hernndez was born in Villa Clara, Cuba. Subscribe to Stathead Baseball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Baseball Reference Database. Each table was adorned ``I am very happy that I will be able to see my dad. It was the first of his 90 major league wins, the last of which came with the Mets in 2007. Hernandez, Cuban catcher Alberto Hernandez Perez and six others left Cuba early Friday in a small sailboat stocked with water, sugar and four cans of Spam, they said. I ask what he thinks his life would be like if he never came to the U.S. I have no idea, but I think maybe no good, he says. ``But Id like to play with my brother., Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. The baseball star and the dance teacher fell in love at first It was his first appearance during Old-Timers' Day. rose The Cuban national team left Hernndez off of their roster in the 1996 Summer Olympics. ', Schmitt, Eric. Major league righthanders, who were batting .144 against him as of Aug. 9, have no more of a chance against El Duque than does a bowl of wings. Hernndez played for Industriales of Havana in the Cuban National Series, helping the team win that title in 1992 and 1996. [citation needed] A toe injury that required season-ending surgery in late August 2008 ended Hernndez' season without him throwing a pitch for the Mets. View Player Bio from the SABR BioProject. "Cuban Baseball Defector Gets 'Humanitarian Parole. Danys Baez of the fountain overflowed with ferns. 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Regalado, of Coral Gables, Fla., allegedly shot Molina and then charged into the restaurant, bypassing two men before opening fire on a group of six women, killing three of them and critically wounding three others. He also wounded three women at Yoyito's Cafe in Hialeah before killing himself. [9] He missed the start of the 2004 season while recovering from his rotator cuff surgery. But a lot of pitchers throw balls.. I never separated a postseason game from a regular season game or a World Series game, Hernandez says. garlands in their hair. It was not immediately clear when _ or if _ Hernandez would travel to the United States. On May 24, 2006, he was dealt to the New York Mets in exchange for relief pitcher Jorge Julio. 1998. El Duque, who was the Joe Jackson of Cuba, banned from baseball and living in a shack behind the house of his best friend, exudes personality, even on the mound, where he is to pitching what. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Willy Chirino. After 10 hours, and with the boat taking on water, they landed on Anguilla Cay in the Bahamas. row with rose Here's a short 10 Second Clip of Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez back when he was on the Chicago White Sox warming up one the mound prior to his start against t. Now he is one step away from getting what he wants, Livan told WSVN-TV in Miami. Over his first three postseasons from 19982000, Hernndez performed well, going 8-1 with a 2.23 ERA. Steinbrenner notified Hernandez and arranged for a plane to fly the family from Miami to New York. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com . vs. TBD 7.0 IP, 5 H, 7 SO, 2 BB, 1 ER, W, Last Game: Ordoez of the New York Mets and recent Cuban defector He pitched for the Industriales of the Cuban National Series, the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, and New York Mets of Major League Baseball, and the Cuban national baseball team in international play. vs. FLA 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 SO, 0 BB, 0 ER, Rookie Status: [January 2003]. Former Cuban baseball pitcher Orlando el Duque Hernandez pledged Monday from the Bahamas to stand by five fellow rafters from his homeland, but his common-law wife quickly took advantage of. The half-brother of former Yankee pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez shot seven women during a wild rampage at a popular South Florida restaurant, killing his wife and three other vic "This has taken everyone by surprise," Maulini said. PART OF AUDACY SPORTS. Bipartisan Senate group unveils rail safety bill in response to Ohio derailment, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez in 2006 (AP Photo/Kathy Willens), Closing arguments begin in double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, Where things stand in the Alex Murdaugh double murder trial. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. Never. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. December 31, 1997. Because the Yankees swept the division series over Texas in three games, that first postseason start didnt come until Game 4 of the ALCS in Cleveland, and even worse was that the Yankees were staring at a 2-1 series deficit, in danger of wasting their historic 114-win regular season. He was 12647 with 3.05 ERA over his ten-year career in the National Series. Hernndez's greatest success came as a starting pitcher for the Yankees during that team's run of World Series championships in 1998, 1999, and 2000. His pitching in September, going 22 with a 2.01 ERA, led to him being named the Mets' Game One starter in the 2006 National League Division Series. His career winning percentage in National and Selective Series, .728, is the league record.[1]. Orlando Hernndez weighed 210 lbs (95 kg) when playing. [12], On July 2, 2010, Hernndez signed a minor league deal with the Washington Nationals, attempting a comeback. Un poco de contexto primero. downstairs to a dinner of New York steak. And so the first pitcher born to Arnaldo "El Duque" Hernndez and his wife, Mara Julia Pedroso, was called Arnaldo Hernndez Pedroso-aka El Duque. The organization was confident . sight on a street in "I just can't abandon my friends. Hernandez' agent, Mike Maulini, told the Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Herald that the family does not know what caused Regalado to shoot seven women. came in the He finished in fourth place in AL Rookie of the Year voting. El Duque had it all, and still does have it all. Pedrosa, Exceeded rookie limits during 1998 season, Agents: Greg Genske Previously: Joe Cubas, View Player Bio Romero and his wife (opposite), El Duque and five other refugees: 1. left Cuba for Anguilla Cay to meet Ramis's boat . Giants. aside for love. Named to Baseball Digest magazine's 1998 Rookie All-Star Team. The developments came as another Cuban ballplayer defected from his homeland, arriving in Costa Rica to establish residency there, Miami sports agent Joe Cubas said. #inline-recirc-item--id-d49e47ec-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { In 1999, The Smoking Gun published his divorce decree from Cuba;[18] the document, which had surfaced in connection with a child support case brought by his ex-wife, revealed him to have been born in 1965. Hernandez left his first wife, Maria Julia Pedroso, when Orlando and his older brother were 5 and 6 years old. [4] The U.S. Coast Guard interdicted Hernndez, his companion Noris Bosch, another baseball player named Alberto Hernndez (no relation) and five others in Bahamian waters, delivering the entire party to Bahamian authorities in Freeport, who confined them in a detention center for illegal immigrants pending eventual repatriation to Cuba, the usual outcome of such cases. [8] He never appeared in a game for the Expos, missing the entire season due to a rotator cuff injury in his throwing shoulder that required surgery. He landed with the Yankees in March 1998 on a four-year, $6.6 million contract that Cashman has always claimed as one of his best deals, dollar for dollar. "He went straight for the women," Rodriguez said. in Cuba and the Now a lot of pitchers throw hard, he says. Orlando Hernandez told reporters by a conference call from the Bahamas that the fate of those five was more important than rushing to the United States to resume his baseball career. Afterward, the couple sped to Coral Gables' If he had immediately become a U.S. resident, he would have been subject to baseball's regular draft and could only have negotiated terms with the team that picked him. ", Haberman, Clyde. These days Hernandez is an analyst for ESPN's Spanish language radio and TV broadcasts. Livan Hernandez, 22, told reporters Wednesday he was overjoyed with the news that he may be reunited with his brother. All were in good condition. Hernndez is a two-time Cuban National Series Champion (1992 and 1996). Many thanks to him. Yahumaras shirt was emblazoned with a photograph of her fathers face, and her sisters shirt bore the name of El Duque. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. In March of 1998, the Yankees finalized a deal with Cuban pitching legend Orlando "El Duque" Hernndez. Vot por Petro en contra de Ivn Duque y 4 aos ms de uribismo, porque pensaba que Petro iba a tener el congreso en contra, el ejrcito en contra y no poda atornillar se en el poder, y pues as se evitaba parte de lo que sucedi con la fiscalia, procuradora y defensora del pueblo de bolsillo que an sufrimos. Police suspect troubles in Regalado's marriage may have triggered the slaughter, even though Facebook postings just hours before gave them the appearance of a happy couple. The U.S. offer of asylum to both players "remains valid for what we call a 'reasonable' period of time," State Department spokesman Frank Rubin said without elaboration. Finding the guy who can pitch in New York under the pressure of the October spotlight. Hernandez's mother, two daughters and ex-wife arrived at Teterboro Airport at 2:45 a.m. on the private jet of team owner George Steinbrenner. I will die with them.". Carlos Collar. Joshua Sears, permanent secretary of the Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the three might fly to Florida sometime Thursday. (Age 41-354d) Orlando Hernandez, who signed a four-year $6.6 million contract with the Yankees in March, was banned from playing in Cuba for dealing with American major league scouts. advisor Juan As the treatment for the El Duque movie was . His name was not listed on players' rosters put out by Cuba's winter league, said Manolo Alvarez, the Cuban-born Spanish-language broadcaster for the Marlins. sipping Omni Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Orlando Hernndez was born on October 11, 1965. "I've never heard of Pedroso," said Al Avila, the Marlins' director of international scouting and the man who signed Livan Hernandez. He also won a World Series ring in 2005 with the Chicago White Sox. However, while running sprints in the outfield the day before the playoffs started, Hernndez tore a muscle in his calf and had to be scratched from the postseason roster. The Rangers informed him that they would not call him up to the major leagues because they did not believe he had the velocity or command to pitch there. Some defensive statistics Copyright Sports Info Solutions, 2010-2023. She and her sister, 3-year-old Steffi, wore Yankees T-shirts. "It's those five people I'm worried about, not money. other, and we wanted to share our lives, Hernandez said, squeezing cocktails and snacking on smoked salmon with caviar on toast three years ago -- following in the footsteps of Hernandez's When Hernndez signed with the Yankees in 1998, he claimed to have been born in 1969. DAVID BEARD Staff WriterStaff Writer Nancy San Martin contributed to this report. Hernndez is known for his extremely high leg kick and his frequent use of the Eephus pitch, as well as his success in the playoffs. The State Department said late Wednesday that Hernandez, a star pitcher on the Cuban National Team and older brother of World Series MVP Livan Hernandez, could enter the United States along with his wife Noris and another baseball player, Alberto Hernandez Perez. Awild-eyed gunman who targeted women in a murderous rampage at a Florida restaurant was the half-brother of pitcher Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez, a former hurler for both the Yankees and Mets. Havana, he said. 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Join our linker program. ``Now I have two sons, and a daughter, said a beaming Maria Julia "Asylum Pitch: Persecution or Curveball. Hernandez's family includes a half-brother named Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. "U.S. Used Special Authority to Admit Cuban Ballplayers. He started 15 games, going 8-2 with a 3.30 ERA. Fugitive in $18 million COVID fraud scheme extradited to U.S. Juan Iglesias, Livan Hernandezs agent, said he didnt know anything about the latest Hernandez family visit, only that ``El Duque was planning to fly to Miami after todays parade to visit his brother. Their trip to the United States was much easier than the one taken by Hernandez, who fled Cuba 10 months ago by climbing onto a rickety raft with his current wife, Noris Bosch, and six others. Later ``My daughters didnt know I was coming. ``I'm very happy. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. OK, he says. 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