Sergio Robles | |
Position: | Catcher |
Birth Date: | 16 April 1946 |
Birth Place: | Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Mexico |
Bats: | Right |
Throws: | Right |
Debutleague: | MLB |
Debutdate: | August 27 |
Debutyear: | 1972 |
Debutteam: | Baltimore Orioles |
Finalleague: | MLB |
Finaldate: | September 13 |
Finalyear: | 1976 |
Finalteam: | Los Angeles Dodgers |
Statleague: | MLB |
Stat1label: | Batting average |
Stat1value: | .095 |
Stat2label: | Home runs |
Stat2value: | 0 |
Stat3label: | Runs batted in |
Stat3value: | 0 |
Teams: | |
Hofcolor: | green |
Hoflink: | Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame |
Hoftype: | Mexican Professional |
Hofdate: | 2006 |
Sergio Robles Valenzuela (born April 16, 1946) is a Mexican former catcher in Major League Baseball from the northern Mexican town of Magdalena de Kino. He won five Mexican Pacific League championships over his 19 seasons with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo. [1] Later, He played in 16 games over three seasons (1972, 1973, 1976) for the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers. He had been acquired along with Doyle Alexander, Bob O'Brien and Royle Stillman by the Orioles from the Dodgers for Frank Robinson and Pete Richert at the Winter Meetings on December 2, 1971.[2] In his native México he is known as Kaliman after a Mexican comic book hero. He was enshrined in his hometown of Magdalena by a statue that was unveiled in 2018 outside of the Estadio Padre Kino, a 3,000-seat baseball stadium that serves as the home of the amateur Membrilleros de Magdalena.