Omar Linares

Omar Linares is one of those figures who makes you genuinely wonder what could have been on the biggest stage. During Cuba's amateur era, this guy was simply untouchable — a third baseman with a swing so pure and power so consistent that scouts called him one of the best players in the world who never played a day in Major League Baseball. He anchored those legendary Cuban national teams through the 1980s and 1990s, winning multiple World Championships and Olympic gold, and when he finally got his shot at professional ball, he went to Japan's Chunichi Dragons and proved the hype was real. Coming out of Pinar del Río, he became a symbol of what Cuban baseball was capable of producing — talent that didn't need a big-league uniform to be legitimately great.

Name (English)

Omar Linares

Name (Japanese)

オマール・リナレス

Reading

おまーる・りなれす

Born

October 23, 1967 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Goat

Origin

Pinar del Río, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba

Height

185 cm

Occupation

baseball player / baseball coach / interpreter / scout

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Pinar del Río Province
• baseball player
• baseball coach
• interpreter

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.