Emmanuel Garcia is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 player. He has played 4 years in the minors (through 2008) and has appeared for Team Canada.

Garcia was undrafted by any major league team. In September 2004, the New York Mets

New York Mets

The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...

 signed the Canadian infielder. He played in 2005 with the GCL Mets

Gulf Coast League Mets

The Gulf Coast League Mets are the Rookie "A" Level minor league affiliate of the New York Mets. The team plays at Digital Domain Park in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The GCL Mets entered the league in 1988 playing their home games in Sarasota, Florida at Twin Lakes Park. The team moved their base of...

 and surprised the league by hitting .339/.412/.409 with 17 steals in 18 tries and 43 runs in 45 games. He led the Gulf Coast League

Gulf Coast League

The Gulf Coast League is a minor league baseball league which operates in Florida. It is a Rookie League, with a season running from mid-June to late August. The season is 60 games long and teams in the league are divided into three divisions, East, North and South...

 in runs, on-base percentage and hits (63, tied with Eduardo Perez

Eduardo Perez

Eduardo Atanasio Pérez, a Cuban-American is a former Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball player. He is currently the hitting coach of the Miami Marlins. He batted and threw right-handed and joined the league in after playing college baseball under head coach Mike Martin for the...

). He was third in the GCL in average behind Perez and Francisco Guzman, two points ahead of Matt Kutler. He was second to Jose Tabata

Jose Tabata

José Nicolas Tábata is a professional baseball outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was an international signee of the New York Yankees and, by 2008, became the Yankees' No. 2 prospect...

 in steals. Garcia was the GCL All-Star shortstop. Baseball America

Baseball America

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 named him the #20 prospect in the GCL.

In 2006, Garcia played for the Kingsport Mets

Kingsport Mets

The Kingsport Mets are a minor league baseball team based in Kingsport, Tennessee, United States. The team, which plays in the Appalachian League, is a Rookie League affiliate of Major League Baseball's New York Mets....

 (.291/.373/.379, 19 SB in 25 attempts) and the Brooklyn Cyclones

Brooklyn Cyclones

The Brooklyn Cyclones is a minor league baseball team in the Short-Season A classification New York - Penn League, affiliated with the New York Mets. The Cyclones play at MCU Park just off the Coney Island boardwalk in the New York City borough of Brooklyn....

 (.240/.316/.240 in 13 games). He led Appalachian League

Appalachian League

The Appalachian League is a Rookie-class minor league that began play in 1937 with one year of inactivity in 1956. From 1937 to 1962, it was a Class D League. Teams are located in the Appalachian regions of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee...

 shortstops with 167 assists and was third in the Appy League in steals. He made the All-Star team as a utility man. Baseball America rated him the #11 prospect in the league.

The Montréal native batted .256/.339/.301 for the 2007 St. Lucie Mets

St. Lucie Mets

The St. Lucie Mets are a minor league baseball team based in Port St. Lucie, Florida.The team, which plays in the Florida State League, is the High-A affiliate of the New York Mets major-league club.The team plays at Digital Domain Park...

 in his first pro struggles. He stole 34 bases in 47 tries and split time between second base and shortstop. In the 2007 Baseball World Cup, Garcia started at shortstop for Canada ahead of former major leaguer Kevin Nicholson and responded very well by hitting .375/.524/.500. One problem was defense as he made four errors in five games, fielding .867. He spent the rest of the winter with the Waikiki BeachBoys, batting .348/.427/.485 with 8 steals in 9 tries.

Beijing Olympics

Garcia played for Canada in the 2008 Final Olympic Qualification Tournament and was their shortstop as they finished first in earning a spot in the Beijing Olympics. Garcia struggled at the plate (.240/.321/.240) and in the field (.825 fielding, 7 errors in 7 games) though he did score 6 runs. He scored the winning run in their 10-inning victory over the German national team, reaching via error and coming home on a bases-loaded walk by Dirk Fries to Emerson Frostad.

Garcia was a late addition to Canada for the 2008 Olympics, replacing Pete Orr

Pete Orr

Peterson Thomas "Pete" Orr is a Canadian professional baseball infielder who is currently in the Philadelphia Phillies organziation.-College:Orr attended Galveston Community College in Galveston, Texas...

after Orr was called up to the majors. He hit .190/.292/.286 as Canada's starting shortstop, fielding .875. He contributed a RBI triple in a 5-4 loss to the Team USA.