Orlando Cabrera

Full Name: Orlando Luis Cabrera	Primary Position: SS
Height/Weight: 5' 11"/165	First Game: September 3, 1997
Birthdate: November 2, 1974	MLB Experience: 11 years
Birthplace: Cartagena, Colombia
Bat/Throw: Right/Right

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1 Biography
- 1.1 Baseball career
- 1.2 Nicknames
2 Scouting Report
3 Statistics
- 3.1 Batting Stats
- 3.2 Fielding Stats
4 Awards
5 Transactions
6 Trivia
7 Video Gallery
8 Picture Gallery
9 See Also
- 9.1 Recent Orlando Cabrera ArmchairGM Stories
10 Categories

[edit] Biography

Orlando Luis Cabrera (born November 2, 1974 in Cartagena, Colombia) is a Major League Baseball shortstop who plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He bats and throws right-handed.

Cabrera is the younger brother of Jolbert Cabrera, a former major league outfielder who recently signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals.

[edit] Baseball career

As a batter, Cabrera is a good fastball line-drive hitter that uses all fields with occasional power. He is a consistent basestealing threat, and he also has the aggressiveness to hustle out numerous doubles and triples.

Cabrera is regarded as a one of the best shortstops in the game. He has an excellent range to both sides, soft hands and a strong arm. He won the Gold Glove Award in 2001. In 2003, he finished second among the league shortstops in batting average (.297), slugging percentage (.415), runs batted in (80), and in stolen base percentage (24-to-26). Beside this, he is one of four Montreal players to have ever played all 162 games in a season, and the first to do it twice. Also, his 17 home runs in that season were the most ever by a shortstop in the Expos history.

Cabrera was traded by Montreal to the Boston Red Sox in the summer of 2004, on the last day of the July trading deadline. Cabrera made Boston fans forget their anger over the Garciaparra four-team deal, batting .294 with six home runs and 31 RBI in 58 games. He also brought stability to the shortstop position, which delighted the Red Sox pitchers. The trade, which also netted first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz from the Twins, shored up Boston's infield defense and energized the team, which went 42-19 after the deal to win the American League's wild card (56-45 before the trade). "He is a game-changer in the field for me," Curt Schilling said.

Following his 2004 World Series victory with the Red Sox, Cabrera signed as a free agent with the Los Angeles Angels organization. Orlando replaced fan favorite David Eckstein at the shortstop position. While it took Angels fans a while to warm up to Cabrera, he eventually became a fan favorite himself after an excellent defensive season in 2005.

Cabrera is a career .267 hitter with 84 home runs and 500 RBI in 1151 games. As a shortstop, he has compiled 1769 putouts, 3204 assists, and 113 errors in 5086 total chances, for a .978 fielding percentage.

In his first game back to Fenway Park as an Anaheim Angel in June of 2005, Cabrera was greeted with a standing ovation which lasted 30 seconds before he walked to the plate. Red Sox fans still give him standing ovations upon each plate appearance at Fenway Park.

Orlando Cabrera was traded to the Chicago White Sox proir to the 2008 MLB season.

[edit] Nicknames

Cabrera has been given several nicknames by teammates, fans and media.

O-Cab
OC
O-Dawg (commonly used by Rex Hudler)
The Wizard of O.C. (bestowed on him by Angel broadcaster Steve Physioc)
Cabfare

[edit] Scouting Report

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Batting Stats

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
1997	MON	16	18	4	4	0	0	0	2	1	3	1	2	.222	.263	.222	.485
1998	MON	79	261	44	73	16	5	3	22	18	27	6	2	.280	.325	.414	.739
1999	MON	104	382	48	97	23	5	8	39	18	38	2	2	.254	.293	.403	.696
2000	MON	125	422	47	100	25	1	13	55	25	28	4	4	.237	.279	.393	.673
2001	MON	162	626	64	173	41	6	14	96	43	54	19	7	.276	.324	.428	.752
2002	MON	153	563	64	148	43	1	7	56	48	53	25	7	.263	.321	.380	.701
2003	MON	162	626	95	186	47	2	17	80	52	64	24	2	.297	.347	.460	.807
2004	MON	103	390	41	96	19	2	4	31	28	31	12	3	.246	.298	.336	.634
2004	BOS	58	228	33	67	19	1	6	31	11	23	4	1	.294	.320	.465	.785
2005	LAA	141	540	70	139	28	3	8	57	38	50	21	2	.257	.309	.365	.674
2006	LAA	153	607	95	171	45	1	9	72	51	58	27	3	.282	.335	.404	.738
2007	LAA	155	638	101	192	35	1	8	86	44	64	20	4	.301	.345	.397	.742
Career		1411	5301	706	1446	341	28	97	627	377	493	165	39	.273	.321	.403	.723

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year	Team	POS	G	GS	INN	PO	TC	A	E	DP	FPCT
1997	MON	2B	4	3	28	10	19	9	0	2	1.000
1997	MON	SS	6	0	12	1	8	6	1	1	.875
1998	MON	SS	52	48	411	64	190	123	3	20	.984
1998	MON	2B	28	24	210	59	135	72	4	16	.970
1999	MON	SS	102	100	870	187	486	289	10	61	.979
2000	MON	SS	124	118	987	167	516	339	10	77	.981
2000	MON	2B	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000
2001	MON	SS	162	160	1406	246	772	515	11	106	.986
2002	MON	SS	153	150	1352	237	764	498	29	102	.962
2003	MON	SS	162	160	1385	259	733	456	18	101	.975
2004	MON	SS	101	100	867	147	444	290	7	69	.984
2004	BOS	SS	57	57	491	78	233	147	8	23	.966
2005	LAA	SS	140	139	1240	229	583	347	7	81	.988
2006	LAA	SS	152	152	1320	253	645	376	16	100	.975
2007	LAA	SS	153	153	1330	239	665	415	11	104	.983
Total			1426	1393	12163	2225	6304	3942	137	875	.978

[edit] Awards

[edit] Transactions

Signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Montreal Expos (June 1, 1993).
Traded by the Montreal Expos to the Boston Red Sox as part of 4-team trade in which the Boston Red Sox sent Nomar Garciaparra and Matt Murton to the Chicago Cubs; the Chicago Cubs sent Brendan Harris, Alex Gonzalez, and Francis Beltran to the Montreal Expos; the Minnesota Twins sent Doug Mientkiewicz to the Boston Red Sox; and the Chicago Cubs sent Justin Jones to the Minnesota Twins (July 31, 2004).
Granted free agency (November 1, 2004).
Signed by Anaheim Angels (January 12, 2005).
Traded by the Los Angeles Angels to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for pitcher Jon Garland (November 21, 2007).

[edit] Trivia

Gold Glove (2001)
Twice led league in games played (2001, 2003)
Hit a home run on his first at-bat as a Red Sox, becoming the eighth Boston player to accomplish this feat (August 1, 2004)
Won the World Series with the Boston Red Sox in 2004. It was the franchise's first World Series since 1918.
Had a straight steal of home plate on July 2, 2006, the first such time it had happened by an Angels player since 1997.
Had a 63-game on-base streak in early-through-mid 2006, which was among the top five streaks of all time. Ted Williams holds the major league record with 84 straight games reaching base by a hit, walk, or hit-by-pitch.