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Baseball player
Tuffy Rhodes
Outfielder
Born: (1968-08-21) August 21, 1968 (age 55) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
Professional debut
MLB: August 7, 1990, for the Houston Astros
NPB: March 30, 1996, for the Kintetsu Buffaloes
Last appearance
MLB: June 8, 1995, for the Boston Red Sox
NPB: November 5, 2009, for the Orix Buffaloes
MLB statistics
Batting average
.224
Home runs
13
Runs batted in
44
NPB statistics
Batting average
.286
Home runs
464
Runs batted in
1,269
Teams
Houston Astros (1990–1993)
Chicago Cubs (1993–1995)
Boston Red Sox (1995)
Kintetsu / Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes (1996–2003)
Yomiuri Giants (2004–2005)
Orix Buffaloes (2007–2009)
Career highlights and awards
10× NPB All-Star (1997–2004, 2007, 2008)
Pacific League MVP (2001)
7× Best Nine Award (1997, 1999, 2001–2004, 2008)
4× NPB home run leader (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004)
3× NPB RBI leader (1999, 2002, 2008)
Karl Derrick "Tuffy" Rhodes (born August 21, 1968) is a retired American professional baseball player. He played six years in Major League Baseball in the US, and thirteen years in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in Japan. Rhodes is the all-time NPB home run leader among foreign-born players, and he is 13th overall with 464 home runs in Japan. He hit 55 home runs in 2001, tying the NPB single-season mark set by Sadaharu Oh in 1964.
Karl Derrick "Tuffy" Rhodes (born August 21, 1968) is a retired American professional baseball player. He played six years in Major League Baseball in...
strikeouts in a season by a hitter (Ralph Bryant, 204). Americans rank #3 (TuffyRhodes, 55) and #5 (Randy Bass, 54) on the list of most home runs in a season...
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professional baseball's all-time home run leader Sadaharu Oh in 1964, TuffyRhodes in 2001, and Alex Cabrera in 2002. Balantien finished the season with...
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Samsung Lions of the KBO League and won the 2002 Korean Series with them. TuffyRhodes played for the Buffaloes for eight seasons from 1996 to 2003, hitting...
runs, a single-season record he owned for 37 years until it was tied by TuffyRhodes in 2001. Oh surpassed 50 home runs in a season two other times, in 1973...
York Mets. The home runs came in three consecutive at-bats; not until TuffyRhodes in 1994, would a Cub hit three home runs in a game at Wrigley in three...
in a season, and for second in NPB overall, alongside Alex Cabrera, TuffyRhodes, and Oh. Unfortunately for Murakami, he would go on a slump, going 48...
League and Warren Cromartie in the Central League, and in 2001 with TuffyRhodes in the Pacific League and Roberto Petagine in the Central League. There...
necessitating extra innings. An eleventh-inning walk-off home run by Iowa's TuffyRhodes ended the game and gave the Cubs their first league title. Outfielder...
Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes hitting three home runs on Opening Day - all off Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets. The Cubs still lost the game 12-8. Rhodes would...
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not sign Dean Palmer†, 3rd round, 59th overall by the Texas Rangers TuffyRhodes, 3rd round, 68th overall by the Houston Astros Scott Cooper†, 3rd round...
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– MLB pitcher Cy Pfirman – MLB umpire Icicle Reeder – MLB outfielder TuffyRhodes – MLB and Japanese player Billy Riley – MLB player outfielder Pete Rose...
the legendary Sadaharu Oh in 1964 and matched by former big leaguer TuffyRhodes in 2001. (In 2013, Wladimir Balentien, playing for the Yakult Swallows...
the important thing." On April 4, 2005, Young joined George Bell and TuffyRhodes as the only players to hit three home runs on Opening Day in Detroit's...
Chicago Cubs outfielder TuffyRhodes blasts three home runs on Opening Day, defeating New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden. Rhodes becomes the first player...
following the Toronto Blue Jays' George Bell in 1988, Chicago Cubs' TuffyRhodes in 1994 and the Detroit Tigers' Dmitri Young in 2005. The St. Louis Cardinals...
Tim Wakefield was signed as a free agent by the Red Sox. May 26, 1995: TuffyRhodes was selected off waivers by the Red Sox from the Chicago Cubs. May 30...
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