Francisco Miguel Lindor is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Cleveland Indians. In 2016, he earned each of his first All-Star selection, Gold Glove Award, becoming the first Puerto Rican shortstop to win the Gold Gloves. He won his first Silver Slugger Award in 2017 and was a selection to the 2017 All-WBC Team.
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Francisco Miguel Lindor is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Cleveland Indians. A right-handed thrower and switch hitter, Lindor stands 5 feet 11 inches and weighs 190 pounds. Lindor batted over. 300 in both his first two major league seasons and provided outstanding defense. In 2016, he earned each of his first All-Star selection, Gold Glove Award, becoming the first Puerto Rican shortstop to win the Gold Gloves. He won his first Silver Slugger Award in 2017 and was a selection to the 2017 All-WBC Team.Lindor was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, on November 14, 1993, the third of four children of Miguel Angel Lindor and Maria Serrano. He began playing baseball at a young age, assisted by his father, who would hit him ground balls from the top of a hill while the younger Lindor stood partway down the slope, attempting to field them. He was named to the USA Today All-USA high school baseball team. The Indians drafted Lindor in the first round of the 2011 MLB draft.
He had full-ride scholarship offer in place with the Florida State Seminoles baseball team, but chose to sign with the Indians for USD 2. 9 million in August 2011. He has been unable to play for the Indios de Mayagüez in the second round of the Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente’s first year draft due to Cleveland’s intervention. However, only two weeks later the Cangrejeros de Santurce signed him by exploiting a legal loophole declaring that any player that has not been officially contracted within three years after being drafted is considered a free agent. He recorded his first major league hit in his first game and stayed in the game and recorded a hit in the next game as a pinch hitter. In September, he won the American League Rookie of the Year voting in 2015. In June 2015, the Indians purchased Lindor’s contract from the Gigantes de Carolina and added him to the active roster. In July 2015, he finished the 2015 season with 59 games for Columbus.
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