Eduardo Nunez is a professional baseball outfielder from the Dominican Republic who currently plays for the Boston Red Sox. He started his professional career in 2004 with the New York Yankees as an international free agent but remained in their minor league until 2010 when he made his first MLB appearance.
Nunez is one of MLB’s greatest players; he is versatile and although he currently plays as an infielder, he can serve as a utility fielder, play the shortstop position, as well as play as an outfielder. The Dominican player also played for the Minnesota Twins and San Francisco Giants before being traded to his current team in July 2017.
Bio of Eduardo Nunez
Eduardo Nunez was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on June 15, 1987 as Eduardo Michelle Núñez Méndez. Little is known about his family, early life and upbringing, but his mother’s name is Victoria Mendez.
At seventeen, he signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent. The franchise at a press conference introduced Eduardo Nunez to Derek Jeter, who was their childhood idol and told Jeter that the youngster (Nunez), would eventually replace him as the Yankees’ starting shortstop .
His professional debut came with the Staten Island Yankees of the short-season Class A New York-Pennsylvania League A in 2005. Eduardo also represented the Yankees in the league’s All-Star Game that season, he was instrumental in the Yankees’ emergence as league champions for the third straight time and at the end of the season, he was ranked the 4th top prospect in the New York–Penn League.
During the 2006 season, Baseball America ranked him the 6th top prospect in the Yankeesfranchise as well as the top prospect with the best throwing arm. Nunez started this season with the Class A-Advanced Florida State League Tampa Yankees but struggled so much this season which led to him being demoted to the Atlantic League Class A Charleston RiverDogs. South (SAL), hitting just .214 for Tampa and Charleston.
He remained with the minor league until August 2010, when he was called up to the majors to replace Lance Berkman while he was on a 15-day disabled list. He made his debut for the team the same day he was called up. In thirty games he played this season, he hit .280, with one home run, 7 RBIs and twelve carries. He became Mark Teixeira’s backup in the 2010 American League Championship Series after he (Mark) was injured. Baseball America ranked him the 8th top prospect in the Yankeesfranchise at the end of the season. He was also named the franchise’s top defensive back as well as top infield arm at the end of that season.
Nunez started the 2011 season replacing RamiroPeña as the team’s infielder, with coach Joe Girardi also using him as an outfielder that season, when Nick Swisher suffered from tendonitis in his elbow. At the end of the season, he played a total of 112 games with the Yankees.
The 2012 season was not one of Eduardo Nunez’s best seasons, he was demoted to Triple-A team Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after hitting .294 in his first twenty games of the season. In September of the same year, he was recalled from Triple-A. He finished the regular season with a .292 batting average in eighty-two batters.
He was initially kicked out of the American League Championship Series that year, but soon found his name on the roster after Jeter suffered a broken ankle. And although the Yankees lost the series to the Tigers, Eduardo still got his first playoff home run from Justin Verlander (Tigers pitcher) in Game 3 of the ALCS.
His 2013 season was hampered by a series of injuries, and he finished the season with a .260 batting average and twenty-eight RBIs in ninety games played. In 2014, the Minnesota Twins acquired him in exchange for Miguel Sulbaran – a minor league pitcher. The Twins traded him to their minor league affiliate, the Rochester Red Wings. He went 7-for-22 (.318) for the Red Wings and on April 17 was promoted to the Twins as the twenty-sixth man on their roster for a double. He finished the season with the Twins averaging .250 in seventy-two games.
Eduardo Nunez started the 2016 season with the Twins but finished it with the San Francisco Giants. with whom he began playing after being traded in July of that year in exchange for Adalberto Mejía (a left-handed minor league pitcher). He played fifty games for the Giants this season with a .269 batting average, thirteen stolen bases, four home runs and twenty RBIs.
The following season, he hit seventy-six averaging .308 batters, eighteen stolen bases, four home runs and thirty-one RBIs before being traded to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for minor league pitcher Gregory Santos. and Shaun Anderson.
In February 2018, he signed a one-year contract with the Boston Red Sox worth $4 million. The deal came with a player option worth $4 million for the next season (2019).
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Height and Other Facts About the Baseball Championship Player
The versatile player is 1.83m (6ft 0in) tall and weighs 88kg (194lbs).
Following his 2018 $4 million deal with the Red Sox, Nunez’s annual salary for 2018 is $4 million.
The infielder reportedly dated a lady named Merary. There really isn’t much to say about this special woman in Nunez’s life, as the couple keep their private lives away from the media.