Sandy Alomar Jr. Biography, Age, Net worth, Wife, Salary
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Sandy Alomar Jr Biography
Sandy Alomar Jr. (Sandy” Alomar Velázquez Jr.) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher, coach, and manager. He played in Major League Baseball catcher for the San Diego Padres, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and New York Mets between 1988 and 2007.
Alomar is a six-time All-Star. He is the son of former major leaguer Sandy Alomar Sr. and the brother of Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar.
Sandy Alomar Jr. Age
Sandy was born on June 18, 1966, in Salinas, Puerto Rico, North America. He is 52 years old as of 2018.
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Sandy Alomar Jr Net Worth
Sandy has an estimated net worth of $13 million. He played with the Padres until 1989 before joining the Cleveland Indians for the next decade from 1990 until 2000. Alomar then played with the Chicago White Sox from 2001 until 2002, the Colorado Rockies in 2002, the White Sox a second time from 2003 until 2004, the Texas Rangers in 2005, the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2006, the White Sox a third time in 2006, and, lastly, the New York Mets in 2007. Alomar last appeared on September 30, 2007, with the Mets. The right-handed catcher finished his pro playing career with a .274 batting average to go along with 112 home runs.
Sandy Alomar Jr Wife
He has been married to Margred since November 2002. They have one child. He was previously married to Kelly Donovan and Christie Solis. Children: Marcus Xavier (born February 14, 1990) and Marissa Daniele (born October 25, 1992) by first wife Christie; Leanna April born April 8, 1989 (Mother Ugenia Brizendine) Brianna Maria, born December 2, 2000 (Mother Kelly Donovan) and Isabela Simone (born April 22, 2004) by current wife Margred.
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Sandy Alomar Jr Salary
Sandy Alomar Jr. was last under contract in 2006, according to USA Today, with a 1 (2006) year package worth $700,000. Over the years, Jr. earned $100,000 in 1990, $300,000 in 1991, $500,000 in 1992, $1.3 million in 1993, $2 million in 1994, $3 million in 1995, $3 million in 1996, $3 million in 1997, $3 million in 1998, $3 million in 1999, $3 million in 2000, $3 million in 2001, $3 million in 2002, $700,000 in 2003, $700,000 in 2004, $600,000 in 2005, and $700,000 in 2006.
Sandy Alomar Jr Hall Of Fame
Today’s version will feature one of the greatest catchers in Indians history, one of the most popular players overall in team history and the team’s current first base coach, Sandy Alomar, Jr. Alomar’s quick accolades are that he played 20 seasons, not missing a year from 1988 through 2007 and made six All-Star teams including one, in 1997, where he won the MVP.
In 1990, Alomar won the Rookie of the Year and Gold Glove at catcher, with the only thing keeping him from a closet full of the latter being Pudge Rodriguez. From 1990 through 2000, Alomar played 11 seasons, all in Cleveland, in which he hit 92 of his 112 home runs, batted .277 and hit 194 doubles. Alomar had a career WAR of 13.7 with 10.3 of that coming during his seven-year peak in Cleveland between 1992 through 1998.
It is important to discuss Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez in Sandy’s Hall of Fame case because the Ranger catcher was Alomar’s primary competition in the American League. From 1992 through 2001, Rodriguez went to the All-Star Game every year, won every single catcher Gold Glove and six Silver Sluggers. Without him, Alomar has an argument for the Silver Sluggers from 1994 and 1997 and the Gold Glove from almost every other year during that span.
While Alomar still got into a couple of All-Star games, with Rodriguez as the almost guaranteed starting catcher, it was more of a battle for Alomar to get on the roster than it would have been without him. Rodriguez retired after the 2011 season and should easily be a first ballot Hall of Famer. If for some reason, the voters do not put him in during his first eligible year, then Alomar has no case for the Hall.
Comparing to those already in, Alomar looks a little more favorably at the low end, but terrible on the higher tier. The top ten catchers by WAR all time are all above 50 in their career and yet one, Ted Simmons, has already been excluded. Simmons is a great comparison for Alomar as Sandy could likely have achieved Simmons’ greater numbers had he not lost so much time to injury during his career.
Sandy Alomar Jr Baseball Card Value
1987 Texas League All-Stars Feder #10 Sandy Alomar Jr. $0.36 1989 Star #125 Sandy Alomar Jr. $0.25 1989 Team Issue Padres Magazine #2 Sandy Alomar Jr. $2.25 1989 Topps #648 Sandy Alomar Jr. $0.40 1989 Topps Tiffany #648 Sandy Alomar Jr. $1.73
Sandy Alomar Coaching Career
On February 15, 2008, Alomar was named the catching instructor for the New York Mets organization. He spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons in that role. Alomar was hired in November 2009 as the first base coach on manager Manny Acta’s staff of the Cleveland Indians.
During the 2010 off-season, Alomar was rumored to be one of four finalists, along with Brian Butterfield, DeMarlo Hale, and John Farrell, for the Toronto Blue Jays managerial job.
During the end of the 2011 season, Alomar was rumored to be on the shortlist of candidates for the vacant Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox managerial positions. On September 28, 2011, Alomar was promoted by the Indians to the position of bench coach for the 2012 season.
On September 27, 2012, the Indians promoted him to an interim manager after firing Acta. He finished his interim reign with a record of three wins and three losses. On October 6, 2012, the Indians announced that the club had hired Terry Francona to take over as manager.
On October 31, 2012, the Cleveland Indians announced that Alomar would be back as the bench coach for the 2013 season under Francona. Alomar was replaced by Brad Mills as the bench coach and he is now their first base coach.
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