Randy Flores

Infobox MLB player
name=Randy Flores

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position=Relief pitcher
team=St. Louis Cardinals
number=34
bats=Left
throws=Left
birthdate=birth date and age|1975|7|31
birthplace=city-state|Bellflower|California
debutdate=April 23
debutyear=2002
debutteam=Texas Rangers
statyear=September 5, 2008
stat1label=Win-Loss
stat1value=9-4
stat2label=Earned run average
stat2value=4.70
stat3label=Strikeouts
stat3value=166
teams=
*Texas Rangers (by|2002)
*Colorado Rockies (by|2002)
*St. Louis Cardinals (by|2004-present)

Randy Alan Flores (born July 31, 1975 in Bellflower, California), is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. Flores played college baseball at the University of Southern California, and is a career left-handed relief specialist, he has played for the Texas Rangers and Colorado Rockies before signing as a free agent with the Cardinals on November 20, mlby|2003. He made his major league debut on April 23, mlby|2002. His brother Ron Flores also pitches for the Cardinals.

He attended El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, California. At the University of Southern California from '94 to '97, he set several pitchng records that still stand as of Oct. 2006. He also earned a BS in Finance from USC.

Flores won a championship ring when the Cardinals won the 2006 World Series, defeating the Detroit Tigers four games to one. Flores appeared in seven games in the 2006 postseason, throwing 5 2/3 innings without giving up an earned run.

Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully said during the May 16, mlby|2007, game between the Cardinals and the Dodgers that Flores' July 31 birthdate (which puts him one day before the cutoff date for youth baseball leagues) guaranteed that he was always the youngest player at each level. Scully quotes him as saying that it was so disheartening that he actually quit baseball for a couple years around age 11.

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