Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo, both former Major Baseball League players, were involved in a car accident in Venezuela on Dec. 6, and killed.
‘Horrible Tragedy’
“We are living a horrible tragedy in Cardenales de Lara. We lost our players Luis Valbuena and José Castillo in a traffic accident,” the Venezuelan club tweeted.Former Arizona Diamondbacks infielder Carlos Rivero was driving the car, the Orange County Register reported, and he survived the accident.
The car they were in reportedly either hit a rock or swerved to avoid a rock before veering off the road.
Stints in the MLB
Valbuena played 11 seasons in the major leagues, batting .226 with a .310 on-base percentage, a .394 slugging percentage, 114 homers, and 367 RBIs in 1,011 games.Valbuena hit .199 with a .253 on-base percentage, a .335 slugging percentage, 9 home runs, and 33 RBIs in 96 games for Los Angeles this year.
His career to date garnered the player over $28 million.
Castillo played five years in the major leagues, with his longest engagement being the Pittsburgh Pirates (2004-07). He also played for the San Francisco Giants (2008) and the Houston Astros (2008). In 592 career games, he hit .254 with a .296 on-base percentage, a .379 slugging percentage, 39 homers, and 218 RBIs.
He played primarily second base and third base.
Rivero briefly played major league baseball for the Boston Red Sox in 2014. He collected four hits in seven at-bats (.571 average), hitting a home run and driving in three runs.
He was in the minor leagues in the United States in 2017, playing for the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Triple-A Reno affiliate. Rivero played this year for Tijuana in the Mexican League.
All three players were born in Venezuela.
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