Ramon Vazquez 

Baseball
Induction Year: 2019

Ramon Vazquez came to Indian Hills from his native Puerto Rico in 1994 and has been involved in professional baseball ever since leaving IHCC. With the Falcons, in the 1995 season, Vazquez batted .367 with five homers and 37 RBIs and was one of the key players on that year's JUCO World Series team. The Seattle Mariners drafted him in the 27th round after the season and Vazquez played in the pros for more than 15 years. His MLB debut came in 2001 with the Mariners and he saw action in the big leagues with the Padres, Red Sox, Indians, Rangers and Pirates, compiling a lifetime .254 batting average. After retiring as an active player, Vazquez was a minor league instructor, coach and manager. He spent the 2017 season as a major-league coach for the Padres, then took on the job of coordinating statistical analysis and advanced scouting data for the World Series champion Boston Red Sox in 2018. After the championship season, Vazquez returned as the manager of Santurce in the Puerto Rican winter league, where one of his players is fellow Hall of Fame-inductee Irving Falu.

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