Chicago Cubs Alfonso Soriano

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Alfonso Soriano, who had been 35 years old Major League Baseball outfielder in Chicago Cubs, he is from San Pedro de Macoris. Before attending the Cubs, he once played for New York Yankees, Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals. In most of his career, he has battled as a lead-off hitter.
Soriano started his professional baseball career in Japan; he trained at the Carp Academy for Dominican players. Wear in the number 74 uniform, he joined in 9 games and get two walks.
Soriano do not like the frequently Japanese practice schedule. And he failed to get more salary from the Carp. As there are previous player had left Japan and play for United States MLB teams, Soriano also wants to do like that, so he turned to Don Nomura for help. Nomura miss the NPB contract with Soriano for the reason that he is not old enough. Then Nomura advised him to try to attend the MLB for professional career. Nomo is a successfully player who had tried that and pursue a career in MLB. This need to apply from Carp executives and send letters to MLB teams at first. But Carp stopped the negotiations Soriano will get from MLB teams. As the former ...
... Nomo case, NPB officials revised the Working Agreement with the agreement from any MLB officials. This makes Soriano attending MLB teams harder than ever before. So MLB would only recognize Soriano as the free agent in 1998.
From 1998, Soriano signed a free agent with the New York Yankees. Start in New York as a n infield player. He get the first hit in MLB game in the next year when he hit a game-winning home run against Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He made great progress in 2001 and be one of the best 3 Rookies.
In 2002, Soriano set a record for most at 696 bats and most 157 strikeouts in a season. And 2003 performance is better, he is the most top five for hits, doubles, home runs, stolen bases, and strikeouts.
In the 2004-2005 season, Soriano was traded to Texas Rangers for Yankees manager's consideration. After joining the Rangers, he did not this team disappointed, he once had six hits on May 8, 2004. It is right the year when Soriano was selected into the All-Star Game as the starting second baseman.
At last, the Chicago Cubs signed with Soriano an eight-year contract almost $136 million. This is the most valuable contract in Cubs history which continues to 2014, 3 years later from this year. The Cub's manager assigned him to play center field, and gradually moved to left field. In May, the first Cub's month game, he get the primary home runs in Cubs. The good thing is that Cubs always get good performance with Soriano's attending. He is extremely productive in June, only in one game against Atlanta Braves, he hit 3 home runs. Also, his effort merited the "National League's Player of the Month" title for June.
Good things not continue in 2009, in which season he is not so good. But he still be good performance player in Cubs, and getter better in 2010. He gained 40 doubles and 79 RBls in the 2010 season, total in 147 games. And right in 2010; he hit the 300th home run off Jake Peavy.
The new 2011 season is coming tomorrow and let's support Soriano. And wish he will still be the super-star in Cubs.
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