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Chicago Cubs Tickets – Player Profile: Alfonso Soriano

People who buy Chicago Cubs tickets for the 2007 season of Major League Baseball will get a chance to see a new face in the outfield, that of Alfonso Soriano. Soriano was brought to Chicago in the off season along with several other free agents, including Ted Lilly, Jason Marquis, Cliff Floyd, and Mark De Rosa. The Soriano purchase was an expensive one for the Cubs, but they intend to get a lot out of this proven talent. The season is underway, and it’s too early to actually say whether bringing in Soriano was a good idea or not. That will have to wait for the end of the season. For now, let’s just learn a bit more about the new guy.

Chicago Cubs tickets are never a hard sell in the Windy City, and especially now that they have added a few more recognizable names, including Soriano, tickets should be even more sought-after. How did Soriano get to be so well-known? Most would say that he earned a lot of fans while he was with the New York Yankees, between 1999 and 2003. But how did he get to the Yankees? Well, that’s a story that begins a long time ago, in the year of our Lord 1976 in a small, baseball player-producing town in the Dominican Republic called San Pedro de Macoris. Sammy Sosa and Luis Castillo are both from the same city. Alfonso grew up in the Dominican Republic and was recognized as a supreme baseball talent by the Japanese club called the Hiroshima Carp. He played in a Dominican development camp in Japan, and then briefly for the Carp. The Yankees apparently liked his play, though his average with the carp was a mere .181. They signed him in 1998 as a free agent, and he spent five seasons there, starting out as an infield player. Though Soriano had a nice way of finding his way on base, he apparently struck out a lot, setting a Yankee record in 2002 for strikeouts, and leading the league again in that category in 2003. He also set a Yankee record for most at-bats. He soon became known around the league as a player that, though he might swing at some bad ones, could find his way on base as a lead off man and a very dangerous base stealer.

In 2005 Soriano (and a wad of cash) was traded to the Texas Rangers for Alex Rodriguez. He was selected to the All-Star Game that year. One of his biggest moments as a player was winning the MVP award in that All-Star Game. When he was traded to the Nationals a year later, he was moved to outfield, a position he at first hated, but then grew to love. With his contract ending at the end of the 2006 season, Soriano was one of the most sought-after free agents. The Cubs picked him up, and now you can get Chicago Cubs tickets to watch him play ball in Wrigley Field.

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