Ruben Angel Sierra
RUBEN ANGEL SIERRA
2001 Highlights:
Selected as the AL Comeback Player of the Year by The Sporting News, USA Today Baseball Weekly and by his peers with the Players Choice Award...appeared in 94 ML games surpassing his total of 86 ML games from 1997-2000 combined...hit 23 home runs, his seventh 20-home run season and first since 1994...began season with triple-A Oklahoma, playing in 24 games before being purchased on May 3...hit .367 (22x60) with 5 HR, 22 RBI in first 21 games with Texas, thru June 13...hit a pinch-hit home run May 15 vs. Cleveland and again on June 1 vs. Minnesota...hit two home runs June 13 at Los Angeles, hitting one home run from each side of the plate; 6th time in career homering from both sides of the plate...drove in 14 runs over 6 games June 9-15...hit two homers June 21 vs. Anaheim…homered in three straight games June 23-25...tied for 2nd in the AL with 10 home runs in June, a career-best one-month total and was tied for 2nd in the AL with 28 RBI in June...hit .304 (24x79) in July before going on the DL on July 27 with pulled left groin...activated on Aug. 11…had first career five-hit game, including third two-homer game of the season Aug. 21 vs. NewYork…hit fourth career grand slam Aug. 31 at Kansas City...hit .299 (20x67) with 5 home runs in Sept...batted .278 (73x263) with 19 home runs vs. right-handed pitchers; .333 (27x81) with 4 home runs vs. lefthanders...was 4x11 (.364) with the bases loaded.
Personal:
Ruben Angel Garcia Sierra…resides in Miami, FL and has a home in San Juan, PR...has three children, a girl, Neysha, and two boys, Ruben, Jr. & Omar...played football and basketball at Dr. Secario Rosario High School in Rio Piedras...played American Legion baseball...owns Paso Fino show horses and enters them in national competitions...has recorded three music CD's.
Other sites for Ruben Sierra
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/players/1721/index.html
http://bigleaguers.yahoo.com/mlb/players/3/3841
http://ww3.sportsline.com/b/member/baseball/mlb/splits/3183_1998_split.htm