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Mike Pagliarulo Third baseman Born: March 15, 1960
Medford, MassachusettsBatted: Left Threw: Right MLB debut July 7, 1984 for the New York Yankees Last MLB appearance October 1, 1995 for the Texas Rangers Career statistics Batting average .241 Home runs 134 Runs batted in 505 Teams Career highlights and awards - World Series champion (1991)
Michael Timothy Pagliarulo, aka "Pags" (born March 15, 1960 in Medford, Massachusetts), is a former Major League Baseball third baseman during the 1980s and into the mid 1990s. Pagliarulo played college ball at Miami, and was drafted by the New York Yankees in 6th round of the 1981 amateur draft.
Pagliarulo joined the parent club on July 1, 1984, and would spend just over five years with the Yankees before going to the San Diego Padres in 1989. After a year and a half in San Diego, Pagliarulo moved back to the American League when he joined the Minnesota Twins just before the start of the 1991 season. It was with Minnesota that Pagliarulo won his only World Series championship as the starting third baseman in 1991. Pagliarulo remained with Minnesota for the following 1992 season and part of the 1993 season before going to the Baltimore Orioles where he finished the season.
Pagliarulo was out of Major League Baseball during the strike shortened 1994 season, playing the season for the Japanese league's Seibu Lions, where he was a teammate of current Lions manager Tsutomu Ito. He played college baseball at the University of Miami.
At the age of 35, Pagliarulo resumed his career when he signed with the Texas Rangers, where he would finish out his career before retiring after the 1995 season.
His son, Michael, was a member of the 2009 Ivy League Champion Dartmouth College baseball team.[1]
Pronunciation of name
Pagliarulo's name is correctly pronounced "pah-lee-ah-ROO-low".
References
External links
- Mike Pagliarulo's baseball statistics provided by Baseball-almanac.com.
- A point-by-point grammatical and stylistic analysis of Pagliarulo's published writing provided by Fire Joe Morgan
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
- Pags's radio show and scouting content provided by BaseLine Report.
- Interview of Pagliarulo about his time with the Twins
Minnesota Twins 1991 World Series Champions 0 Junior Ortiz | 1 Jarvis Brown | 7 Greg Gagne | 9 Gene Larkin | 11 Chuck Knoblauch | 12 Brian Harper | 13 Mike Pagliarulo | 14 Kent Hrbek | 18 Paul Sorrento | 19 Scott Erickson | 24 Shane Mack | 25 Randy Bush | 26 Al Newman | 30 Terry Leach | 31 Scott Leius | 32 Dan Gladden | 34 Kirby Puckett | 36 Kevin Tapani | 38 Rick Aguilera | 39 David West | 40 Steve Bedrosian | 44 Chili Davis | 47 Jack Morris (World Series MVP) | 51 Carl Willis | 53 Mark Guthrie
Manager 10 Tom Kelly
Coach 6 Tony Oliva | 35 Ron Gardenhire | 42 Dick Such | 43 Rick Stelmaszek | 45 Wayne Terwilliger | 46 Terry CrowleyCategories:- Baseball players from Massachusetts
- American people of Italian descent
- Minnesota Twins players
- New York Yankees players
- San Diego Padres players
- Baltimore Orioles players
- Seibu Lions players
- Texas Rangers players
- Fort Myers Miracle players
- Greensboro Hornets players
- Columbus Clippers players
- Oneonta Yankees players
- American expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Major League Baseball third basemen
- Miami Hurricanes baseball players
- Nashville Sounds players
- People from Medford, Massachusetts
- 1960 births
- Living people
- People from Winchester, Massachusetts
- American baseball third baseman stubs
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