Randy Arozarena

Randy Arozarena is my favorite kind of ballplayer: pure theater wrapped around real, repeatable skill. The 2020 postseason, when he hit his way to ALCS MVP and the Babe Ruth Award as a near-unknown, remains one of the great October stories of the era. But what moves me is the journey behind it — leaving Cuba, rebuilding his life in Mexico, then choosing to wear Mexico's colors in international play out of gratitude. There is a darker entry too: in November 2020 he was arrested in Mexico after allegedly trying to take his daughter from her mother and assaulting the mother's father, and was released two days later when no charges were pressed. The folded-arms pose works because he keeps earning it. In Seattle he remains appointment viewing for me; some players simply rise when the lights do.

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Name (English)

Randy Arozarena

Name (Japanese)

ランディ・アロサレーナ

Reading

らんでぃ・あろされーな

Born

February 28, 1995 (age 31)

Origin

Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Boar

Awards & achievements

• 2021 Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award
• 2020 League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award
• 2020 Babe Ruth Award

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/randy_arozarena/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Arozarena
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65972748

Tags

• Havana Province
• baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.