Carlos Rodríguez Márquez (born November 1, 1967 in Mexico City

Mexico City

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, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Mexico

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) is a former shortstop

Shortstop

Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...

 in Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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. He played for the New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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 in 1991 and for the Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

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 in 1994 and 1995.

Rodríguez had a career batting average

Batting average

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 of .278, and a career fielding percentage

Fielding percentage

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 of .971.

He is the son of Mexican Baseball Hall of Famer Leo Rodríguez.

Rodriguez now owns "The Strike Zone"; an indoor batting facility in central Ohio.

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