Chairon Isenia
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| Chairon Isenia | |||||||||||||||
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| Born: 23 January 1979 Willemstad, Curaçao | |||||||||||||||
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Chairon Ramon Isenia (born 23 January 1979) is a Curaçaoan former baseball player who is a scout for the Tampa Bay Rays. He played for the Netherlands national team and for Tampa Bay in the minor leagues as a catcher.
Isenia represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where the team finished fifth. Four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, they were sixth.[1] He had a .353 batting average in Athens, leading the Dutch and ninth best in the tournament.[2][3] He also played for the Netherlands in the 2006 World Baseball Classic (WBC).[4] Isenia played in other international tournaments. He was named to the All-Star team of the 2003 European Baseball Championship after batting .350. He then hit .308 at the 2003 Baseball World Cup.[2]
Isenia's brother Percy played for the Dutch baseball team in the 2006 WBC[4] and 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics.[5]
Isenia was a catcher in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays minor league system from 1998 to 2006, playing in Double-A his final four seasons.[6] After his playing career, he has been a scout for Tampa Bay in Curaçao.[7]