Octavio Dotel | |||||||||||||||
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![]() Dotel with the Tigers in 2012 | |||||||||||||||
Pitcher | |||||||||||||||
Born: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | November 25, 1973|||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
June 26, 1999, for the New York Mets | |||||||||||||||
Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||
April 19, 2013, for the Detroit Tigers | |||||||||||||||
MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
Win–loss record | 59–50 | ||||||||||||||
Earned run average | 3.78 | ||||||||||||||
Strikeouts | 1,143 | ||||||||||||||
Saves | 109 | ||||||||||||||
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Octavio Eduardo Dotel Diaz (born November 25, 1973) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. Dotel played for 13 major league teams, the second most teams played for by any player in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), setting the mark when he pitched for the Detroit Tigers on April 7, 2012, breaking a record previously held by Mike Morgan, Matt Stairs, and Ron Villone.[1] Edwin Jackson broke this record in 2019.[2] Dotel's longest tenure with any one team was the five seasons he spent with the Houston Astros.
Dotel won the 2011 World Series as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2013, as part of the World Baseball Classic champions along with fellow Dominicans Robinson Canó and Santiago Casilla, Dotel became one of the few players in history to win both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic.