Rusney Castillo
| Rusney Castillo | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Castillo with the Long Island Ducks in 2022. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Conspiradores de Querétaro – No. 15 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Outfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: July 9, 1987 Ciego de Ávila, Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB: September 17, 2014, for the Boston Red Sox | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NPB: April 23, 2021, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .262 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2021 season) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .225 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rusney Castillo Peraza (born July 9, 1987) is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder for the Conspiradores de Querétaro of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Listed at 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) and 195 pounds (88 kg), he bats and throws right handed.
Castillo was born in Ciego de Ávila, a city located in the central part of Cuba and the capital of Ciego de Ávila Province. At age 22, he showed enough skills to land a spot on Los Tigres, the nickname for Ciego de Ávila's club in the Cuban National Series. Additionally, he played with the Cuba national baseball team in several international tournaments, including the 2011 Baseball World Cup and the 2011 Pan American Games, before defecting from Cuba in December 2013 to pursue an MLB career. In August 2014, Castillo signed a $72.5 million contract with the Boston Red Sox, which ran through the 2020 season.