[PinsonHOF]

While besting the bushes for 1972 expansion talent I found these neat looking Venezuelan baseball cards featuring a very obscure player Raul Ortega. So obscure his only baseball reference statistics are a three game stint in the Giants organization in 1970. Playing for Fresno in the California League Raul was 0 for 10 at the plate. Like his cards , no position or defensive stats are listed. It appears he did play several years in his home country... The first card is from a 1964 set and in the one featuring the uniform of the Magallanes Navigantes he appears older.

Listed at 5'7 169 Lbs and as a right handed hitter and thrower I am making the very elementary guess that Raul Ortega was a middle infielder and predominantly a second baseman. Their is also a Baseball Reference of a Raul Ortega playing in the 1970 Mexican League for the Saltillo Sarapes. Again only three games. No position or defensive information . In fact no info at all. Perhaps the same man. Perhaps not. In any event here are the card images of the mysterious Raul Ortega.