Omar Linares
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| Omar Linares | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Linares at the 1986 Amateur World Series | |
| Third baseman / First baseman / Coach | |
| Born: October 23, 1967 San Juan y Martínez, Pinar del Río, Cuba[1] | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| Professional debut | |
| SNB: 1982, for the Pinar del Río | |
| NPB: July 23, 2002, for the Chunichi Dragons | |
| Last appearance | |
| SNB: June 16, 2002, for the Pinar del Río | |
| NPB: 2004, for the Chunichi Dragons | |
| SNB statistics | |
| Batting average | .368 |
| Home runs | 404 |
| Runs batted in | 1,221 |
| NPB statistics | |
| Batting average | .246 |
| Home runs | 11 |
| Runs batted in | 61 |
| Teams | |
| Member of the Cuban | |
 Baseball Hall of Fame | |
| Induction | 2014 |
Omar Linares Izquierdo (born October 23, 1967)[2] is a Cuban former professional baseball third baseman, first baseman and coach. He played for the Cuba national baseball team as well as professionally for Vegueros de Pinar del Río of the Cuban National Series (SNB) and Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
In 2009, Linares decided to become a hitting and first base coach for longtime rival team Industriales, helping them to conquer a national championship, his first as an assistant coach.
Linares spent 20 seasons with Pinar del Río in Cuba's National Series, compiling a career .368 batting average, the best in the league's history, with 404 home runs (third among all-times in Cuban league), 1,547 runs batted in and 264 stolen bases. He led the National Series in batting average four times, in RBIs four times and in walks six times. At the end of his career, Linares spent three seasons with the Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Central League, retiring in 2004.
