Darwin Cubillán Baseball player

Darwin Harrikson Cubillán Salom (pronounced coo-be-YAHN) (born November 15, 1972) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher.Originally signed as a free agent by the Yankees in 1993, Cubillán has played in the MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays (2000), Texas Rangers (2000), Montreal Expos (2001) and Baltimore Orioles (2004. In three-season career, Cubillán compiled a 1–0 record with 54 strikeouts and a 6.85 ERA.Cubillán played in Japan for the Hanshin Tigers of the Central League, Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) from 2005 until 2007. He played using his first name "Darwin", because his last name Cubillán sounds like "Kubi yan" (クビやん) meaning "He is fired, isn't he?" in Japanese Kansai dialect, and "Darwin" has the same spelling as the last name of an English naturalist, Charles Darwin. In 2008, he signed with the SK Wyverns in South Korea, but was released during the season.

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Darwin Cubillán
Birth dateNovember 15, 1972
Birth place
Venezuela , Zulia

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Baseball player

Career startMay 20, 2000
Career endJune 01, 2004
batting sideRight
former teams
Baltimore Orioles
Toronto Blue Jays
position
Relief pitcher
teams
Baltimore Orioles
Texas Rangers (baseball)
Toronto Blue Jays
Hanshin Tigers
SK Wyverns
Washington Nationals
throwing sideRight

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