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Regino García could hit. He belongs in a long lineage in baseball history of backstops who produced offensively, but weren’t all that great defensively (either catching or at other positions), and for whatever the reason, only held down a full time job for a few years. Smoky Burgess, Cliff Johnson, Manny Sanguillén, countless others, we’re looking at you.

García could also run, which is an interesting twist, but it really was his ability to hit for average that kept him in the league–he had some power, but not a ton, but he hit over .290 6 out of 8 years through his peak (remember, this is the 1900s). He was ridiculously hard to strike out.

Mamelo was not a very good fielder, lacking both subtlety in framing pitches and a strong arm. This led to some predictable experiments with him at 1B and RF, neither of which worked out very well.

Still, a valuable piece.

We have been fairly conservative on García’s power numbers and could see him accumulating more doubles and triples in future projections.

Name	Regino García (Mamelo)
ID / Status	garcia049reg / Draft
Pos	C
DOB / i9s Career	1875 / 1901 - 1912
Birthplace	Matanzas, Cuba (Cuba)
Height / Weight	5'6" /
B / T	R / R

 

Batting Projections

Year	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1901	159	40	6	2	0	7	21	5	2	0.252	0.283	0.314	0.598
1902	341	110	10	3	0	17	24	18	5	0.323	0.355	0.370	0.724
1903	397	140	15	0	2	28	29	45	8	0.353	0.395	0.406	0.801
1904	420	128	14	1	1	26	33	34	6	0.305	0.345	0.350	0.695
1905	466	136	13	4	1	30	49	40	7	0.292	0.335	0.343	0.678
1906	376	109	14	3	1	25	33	30	5	0.290	0.334	0.351	0.685
1907	358	90	13	3	1	26	33	27	5	0.251	0.302	0.313	0.615
1908	347	94	9	2	0	22	37	17	5	0.271	0.314	0.308	0.623
1909	313	95	12	2	1	25	30	19	5	0.304	0.355	0.364	0.719
1910	225	49	8	2	1	21	19	8	3	0.218	0.285	0.284	0.569
1911	319	88	14	2	1	35	28	19	5	0.276	0.347	0.342	0.689
1912	294	52	9	1	0	29	38	10	5	0.177	0.251	0.214	0.465

 

Pitching Projections