Luis Alexander Basabe
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Born
1996 (30 years old)
Alberto Adriani, VenezuelaPosition
Center Fielder
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Retired
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Hispanic
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El Vigía, Mérida, Venezuela
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Luis Alexander Basabe (bah-sah'vay) (born August 26, 1996) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants. Listed at 6' 0" (1.83 m), 160 lb. (73 k), he is a switch hitter and throws right handed. The Boston Red Sox signed Basabe as an international amateur free agent in 2012. He made his MLB debut in 2020.
Career
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox signed Basabe as an international amateur free agent in 2012 out of Venezuela for $450,000, at the same time that they signed his twin brother, Luis Alejandro Basabe. Basabe gained attention from scouts due to his tool set at a young age, displaying plus speed, plus arm strength in center field, raw power, athleticism, plate discipline, and the ability to hit from both sides of the plate. From 2013–2015, the Basabes played together after signing in the Dominican Summer and Gulf Coast leagues. He finished the year with the Gulf Coast League Red Sox, hitting .248/.328/.324 in 32 games, before being promoted to the Lowell Spinners the next season.
Basabe hit .243/.340/.401 with 15 runs and 13 RBIs in 56 games for the Spinners in 2015, tying for third with teammate Andrew Benintendi in the short-season New York–Penn League with seven home runs despite being its third-youngest regular at age 18 in a league full of former college players. He showed speed on the basepaths as well, leading Lowell with 15 stolen bases. That was also good for 10th in the NYPL. Besides, he became the first player in Lowell's 20-year history to homer from both sides of the plate in one game, doing so in June and again in July, and also represented his team in the NYPL All-Star Game.
Basabe opened 2016 at Low-A Class Greenville Drive, where he showed his potential and rare combination of power and speed in 105 games. Though he scuffled in the first half, Basabe emerged in the second half and hit .298/.361/.502, including a .363 average in the month of July, to bring his season line to .261/.328/.451, hitting 8 triples (fourth in the South Atlantic League), 12 home runs, and stealing 25 bases (ninth in the league) while being caught only five times. In addition, he drove in 52 runs and scored 61 times. Furthermore, he was selected to the South Atlantic League post-season All-Star team, and a Baseball America Low Class A All Star.
After being promoted to the Salem Red Sox for the last week of the season and postseason, Basabe seemed to be fitting right into the High-A Class. In five games, he went 8-for-22 and slashed .364/.391/.545 with two doubles and one triple. Overall, he ranked fourth among the Sox minor leaguers in steals, sixth in homers, seventh in runs, eighth in triples (8), and tenth in hits (104) and doubles (24). He was eligible for selection in the Rule 5 draft in December.
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 San Francisco Giants | 2020 | Permanent | - | - |
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| Positions Played | MLB | 2020 | /97H |
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| Intentional Bases on Balls | MLB | 2020 | 0 |
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| Sacrifice Flies | MLB | 2020 | 0 |
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| Sacrifice Hits | MLB | 2020 | 0 |
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| Times Hit by a Pitch | MLB | 2020 | 0 |
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| GIDP | MLB | 2020 | 0 |
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| Total Bases | MLB | 2020 | 2 |
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| Rbat+ | MLB | 2020 | 90 |
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| rOBA | MLB | 2020 | .333 |
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| OPS+ | MLB | 2020 | 39 |
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| OPS | MLB | 2020 | .476 |
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| SLG | MLB | 2020 | .143 |
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| OBP | MLB | 2020 | .333 |
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| Hits/At Bats | MLB | 2020 | .143 |
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| Strikeouts | MLB | 2020 | 5 |
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| Bases on Balls/Walks | MLB | 2020 | 4 |
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| Caught Stealing | MLB | 2020 | 0 |
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| Stolen Bases | MLB | 2020 | 2 |
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| Runs Batted In | MLB | 2020 | 1 |
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| Home Runs | MLB | 2020 | 0 |
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| Triples | MLB | 2020 | 0 |
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| Doubles | MLB | 2020 | 0 |
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| Hits | MLB | 2020 | 2 |
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| Runs Scored | MLB | 2020 | 5 |
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| At Bats | MLB | 2020 | 14 |
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| Plate Appearances | MLB | 2020 | 18 |
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| Games Played | MLB | 2020 | 9 |
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| Wins Above Replacement for position players | MLB | 2020 | 0.1 |
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