Adrián Beltré

Adrián Beltré is genuinely one of my favorite players to ever put on a glove, and I'll die on that hill. He came up with the Dodgers as a teenager out of Santo Domingo and spent over two decades proving he belonged in the same conversation as Brooks Robinson and Mike Schmidt at third base. Four Gold Gloves, a Silver Slugger, and a career that hit its true stride once he landed in Texas — watching him vacuum up grounders with that low, almost absurd crouch, or launch home runs from his knees when pitchers dared to go low, never got old. What sealed it for me was the personality: the running bit with Elvis Andrus and the head-patting gag showed a guy who genuinely loved being out there. The 2024 Hall of Fame induction felt less like a formality and more like the sport finally saying out loud what fans already knew.

Name (English)

Adrián Beltré

Name (Japanese)

エイドリアン・ベルトレ

Reading

えいどりあん・べるとれ

Born

April 7, 1979 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

Origin

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Height

180 cm

Occupation

professional baseball player

Awards & achievements

• 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star
• 2014 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award
• 2007 Rawlings Gold Glove Award
• 2004 Silver Slugger Award
• 2021 Texas Rangers Hall of Fame
• 2024 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC

Tags

• professional baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.