Paul Gonzalez
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Representing  Australia
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Athens 2004 | Team Competition |
Paul Gonzalez (born April 22, 1969) is an American baseball executive and former professional player. Currently the general manager of the Brisbane Bandits, he has played professional baseball in the United States, Japan, Italy and Australia. He also won a silver medal with the Australia national baseball team at the 2004 Olympics.
Playing career
[edit]A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Gonzalez attended Texas Christian University. In 1989, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod Baseball League and was named a league all-star.[1]
Gonzalez was picked up in the 1990 amateur draft by the San Diego Padres and played for a variety of minor league teams including the High Desert Mavericks, Wichita Wranglers, Las Vegas Stars, Prince William Cannons, Abilene Prairie Dogs and the Birmingham Barons.[citation needed]
Gonzalez played in the Australian Baseball League and the International Baseball League of Australia for the Brisbane Bandits from 1992 until 1998 and Melbourne Monarchs in the 1998–1999 season. In total he made 227 appearances, boasting 48 home-runs and 168 RBI's, giving him a batting average of .304 and slugging .567.[2]
In 2002 Gonzalez led the Claxton Shield and Queensland Rams batting with an average of .476 and slugging .857.[citation needed]
By 1999, he played for Orix BlueWave in Japan. In 2004, he was part of the Australian Olympic baseball team, which achieved a Silver Medal in the baseball tournament at the Athens Olympics.
References
[edit]- ^ "Baseball & Soccer All-Star Rosters". The Cape Codder. Orleans, MA. 18 July 1989. p. 22.
- ^ "Flintoff Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
- 1969 births
- Living people
- American expatriate baseball players in Japan
- American expatriate baseball players in Taiwan
- Australian expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Australian expatriate baseball players in Taiwan
- Baseball players from Fort Worth, Texas
- Baseball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Baseball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Birmingham Barons players
- High Desert Mavericks players
- Las Vegas Stars (baseball) players
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic baseball players for Australia
- Olympic medalists in baseball
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Orix BlueWave players
- Prince William Cannons players
- Spokane Indians players
- Wichita Wranglers players
- Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox players
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen