Leo Posada

Leopoldo Jesús Posada Hernández (born April 15, 1936) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He played for the Kansas City Athletics from 1960 through 1962. After his retirement as a player, he served as a minor league manager.

Leo Posada
Outfielder
Born: (1936-04-15) April 15, 1936
Havana, Cuba
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 21, 1960, for the Kansas City Athletics
Last MLB appearance
July 20, 1962, for the Kansas City Athletics
MLB statistics
Batting average.256
Home runs8
Runs batted in58
On-base plus slugging.697
Hits109
Teams
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Posada and the second or maternal family name is Hernández.

Career

Cycling

Posada was a cyclist before beginning his baseball career. He represented Cuba in cycling at the Pan American Games and the Central American and Caribbean Games.[1]

Baseball

Posada was signed as an amateur free agent by the Milwaukee Braves in 1954. In 1956, he was selected by the Kansas City Athletics from the Braves in the minor league draft.

Posada played for the Athletics from 1960 to 1962. On August 3, 1962, he was traded by the Athletics with Dale Willis and Bill Kunkel to Braves for Orlando Peña. Posada continued to play in the minor leagues until 1969.

In 1975, Posada served as manager of the Class A Fort Lauderdale Yankees[2] of the Florida State League.[3]

Family

Posada's brother, Jorge Posada, Sr., was a scout for the Colorado Rockies. His nephew, Jorge Posada, Jr., is a retired catcher who played with the New York Yankees for 17 years.[4]

See also

References
  1. Hernández, Lou (29 April 2013). Memories of Winter Ball: Interviews with Players in the Latin American Winter Leagues of the 1950s. McFarland. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7864-7141-6. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  2. Baseball-Reference.com
  3. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007
  4. "Leo Posada". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
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