Vladimir Guerrero

Vladimir Guerrero remains my favorite argument against baseball orthodoxy. Hitters are taught discipline; Vlad swung at everything, pitches in the dirt, pitches at his eyes, and still hit them hard for sixteen big-league seasons, winning the 2004 MVP and a shelf of Silver Sluggers. No batting gloves, a pine-tar-stained helmet, a cannon arm in right field: he played like the game was still a sandlot in Don Gregorio, and that joy was contagious. Analytics can explain almost everything in modern baseball, but it never fully explained him. He entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2018, and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame nod for his Expos years feels right; Montreal saw the wild genius first.

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Name (English)

Vladimir Guerrero

Name (Japanese)

ブラディミール・ゲレーロ

Reading

ぶらでぃみーる・げれーろ

Born

February 9, 1975 (age 51)

Origin

Don Gregorio, Peravia Province, Dominican Republic

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

Awards & achievements

• Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
• 2004 Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
• Major League Baseball All-Star
• Silver Slugger Award
• Montreal Expos Player of the Year

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/supervlad27/
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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Guerrero
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1185254

Tags

• Peravia Province
• baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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