Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea (born November 1, 1960) is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher. He played 17 Major League Baseball seasons, from 1980 to 1991 and 1993 to 1997. He was the first and to date, the only player to win both Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards in the same season. On June 29, 1990, he threw his only MLB no-hitter, pitching at Dodger Stadium against the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea (born November 1, 1960) is a Mexican former professional baseball pitcher. He played 17 Major League Baseball seasons, from 1980 to 1991 and 1993 to 1997. His career highlights include a win-loss record of 173–153, with an earned run average of 3. 54. He was the first and to date, the only player to win both Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards in the same season. On June 29, 1990, he threw his only MLB no-hitter, pitching at Dodger Stadium against the St. Louis Cardinals, a 6–0 victory. He retired from baseball after the 1997 season. In 2003, he returned to the Dodgers as a broadcaster. In 2015, he became a naturalized American citizen. He is the youngest of twelve children, born in Etchohuaquila, a small town within the municipality of Navojoa in the state of Sonora, Mexico. His birth date is officially listed as November1, 1960, but during his rookie season in 1981, several commentators questioned his age, guessing him to be significantly older than twenty. He had ten career home runs and was occasionally used by Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda as a pinch-Hitter. He also played for the California Angels, Baltimore Orioles, Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres, and St. Louis Cardinals. He won a major league-leading 21 games in 1986, although Mike Scott of the Houston Astros narrowly beat him out in the Cy Young Award voting.
His best period of his career was from 1981 to 1986, when he was named a National League All-Star in each season and won a big league- leading 21 games. He has a son, Fernando, who is also a professional baseball player and a former Major League baseball player. He batted and threw left-handed, and he is a father of two children, Fernando and Angelina. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and two children. His son, Angelina, is a high school baseball coach and has coached at the University of California, Los Angeles and the California Institute of Technology. He used to pitch for the Leones de Yucatán in the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol. He threw a screwball, which the Dodgers felt he needed to learn to throw off-speed, so they had Bobby Castillo teach him to throw the screwball before the 1980 season. The Dodgers signed him to a contract on July 6, 1979, for 120,000 dollars. He made his debut late in the1980 season. He went 10–12 with a 2. 49 ERA and 141 strikeouts in that year. He later played for six MLB teams, including the Los Angeles Angels and the Baltimore Orioles. He spent the remainder of his big league career with the California Angel’s. He did not play in the postseason because of his ailing shoulder.
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