Kelvin Torve

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Kelvin Torve
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Kelvin Curtis Torve (born January 10, 1960) is a former Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball First baseman, and current head coach of the American Legion Baseball Post 22 Hardhats in Rapid City, South Dakota.[1] Torve batted left and threw right.

Minor leagues

Torve was drafted by the

runs batted in. On April 9, 1985 he was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for minor league pitcher
Tommy Alexander. He batted .262 with 28 home runs and 150 RBIs over three seasons in the Orioles' farm system.

Minnesota Twins

After the

California Angels' Stew Cliburn.[2] His only other RBI came on July 5 to blow a save for Hall of Fame closer Lee Smith.[3] He went 3-for-16 in his one month stint with the Twins before returning to triple A in late July. He spent the entire 1989
season in Portland, where he batted .291 with eight home runs and 62 RBIs.

New York Mets

Torve signed with the

Doubleday and Company and to Fred Wilpon, chairman of the board of Sterling Equities
.

Equipment manager Charlie Samuels realized his mistake after receiving complaints from fans, and reissued Torve number 39 during the California road trip that began August 17. Torve kept the number for the remainder of the Mets' home stand, however, and batted .545 with two doubles and two RBIs in his short stint in Willie Mays' number.[5] Number 39 batted .185 with no RBIs.

Torve joined the Mets again in 1991 in late June. He had eight at bats without a hit.

Orix Blue Wave

In

Orix BlueWave, where he became teammates with eighteen year old phenom Ichiro Suzuki. His first season in Japan got off to a slow start, but he turned it around, and led the team with a .305 batting average. His eleven home runs and 58 RBIs were third on the team (behind Satoshi Takahashi & Kazuhiko Ishimine
in both cases). In his second season with Orix, Torve batted .232 with nine home runs and 35 RBIs.

References

  1. ^ "Kelvin Torve". Post 22 Baseball. November 4, 2018.
  2. ^ "California Angels 16, Minnesota Twins 7". Baseball-Reference.com. June 27, 1988.
  3. ^ "Minnesota Twins 6, Boston Red Sox 4". Baseball-Reference.com. July 5, 1988.
  4. ^ "Philadelphia Phillies 9, New York Mets 0". Baseball-Reference.com. August 7, 1990.
  5. ^ "Accidental 24: The Kelvin Torve Interview". MBTN.net. February 11, 2008.

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