Your Random Mid 80's to Early 90's Baseball Player of the Day is Stan Javier.Stanley Julian Antonio Javier debuted with the New York Yankees in 1984 and retired from the Seattle Mariners in 2001. If you needed a mediocre fourth outfielder from 1985-1998, than Javier was your man.
In fact, to get a vivid description of Javier, lets direct quote from Javier's wikipedia page, which was without a doubt was written by his mother, Mrs./Ms. Javier:
"Javier was a talented baseball player and a classic fourth outfielder: someonewho can give a club good defense, blazing speed, and a a switch-hitting bat withdecent average, but who cannot sustain his play over a full season."
"Stan was a winner and a sought after player every year around the trading deadline because of the many different ways to win he brought to the table."
"His career highlights included finishing tenth in the AL in stolen bases in 1994, with 24, and seventh in the AL in steals in 1995 with 36."
Following Javier's retirement from baseball, he focused on his next goal, which was representing the underrepresented Dominican Republic in the Outdoor Games. In his native Dominican Republic, Javier started his own tree cutting company, Javier Farms, which began with planting 7 million trees on about 20,000 acres in his homeland. In his new career, Javier tried to create jobs for Dominicans, saying, "It's not very often you see a guy that's trying to create forests." Who knew that Javier was so ahead of the curve with trying to eliminate his carbon footprint?
However, even nature couldn't keep Javier away from the game he loved. In the mid 2000's, Javier was hired as the General Manager and Architect of the 2006 and 2009 Domincan Republic World Baseball Classic team. So feel free to blame Stan Javier for the disastrous upset loss to the Netherlands and Sidney Ponson in the 2009 WBC.
Also, of amazing irrelevance, Javier is also a pretty big fan of horses. Javier's daughters are accomplished equestrian riders.
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