Alberto Magallón

Alberto Magallón Pérez

• Throws Right

• Born February 12, 1982 in Pamplona, Navarre Spain

Biographical Information

Alberto Magallón debuted in Spain in the early 2000s with Club Hèrcules L'Hospitalet. He was the youngest player on the Spanish national team in the 2001 European Championship; the teenager was born two years after Gustavo Ortiz, the next-youngest. He made one appearance, in a surprising 14-7 loss to Ukraine, relieving Carlos Ros in the 6th and allowing four hits and five runs (four earned) in 2/3 IP before Ortiz took over. In 2003, he helped CB Sant Boi win their first Division de Honor title. Unfortunately, Spanish stats for this period are unavailable due to frequent revisions of the Spanish Baseball and Softball Federation </ref>

In the 2003 European Championship, he was 1-0 with a 2.00 ERA. He beat Germany's Stefan Fechtig with a complete game effort. Spain won Bronze. He was 1-1 with a 6.23 ERA in the 2005 European Championship, beating Ukraine and Oleksandr Pletenya while losing to the champion Dutch national team's Diegomar Markwell.

The right-hander was 0-2 with a 11.25 ERA in the 2005 Baseball World Cup, dropping decisions to Shinsuke Saito of Japan and Sung-Wei Pan of Taiwan. He went 5-5 with a 2.23 ERA for CB Viladecans in 2008, the first year Spanish stats are available online for as of 6/19/2024. By this time, he was probably past his prime as he had already made his final national team appearance. He was 6th in IP (96 2/3), tied for 9th in wins and tied for first in appearances (16).

In 2009, he posted a 8-6, 3.97 record for San Inazio Bilbao. He was 9th in IP (113 1/3), tied for 7th in wins and tied for 2nd in games pitched (18, two behind Pol Llopis). He was 6-9 with two saves and a 3.93 ERA in '10. He was 8th in IP, tied for 4th in appearances and tied Fabian Marquez for 3rd in losses. He was 6-10 with a 3.36 ERA in 2011. He was was 4th in IP (112 1/3, between Ricardo Hernández and Pedro Pablo Belmonte), tied for first in games pitched (17), tied Alexis Fumero and Carlos Amaro for the most starts (17) and was second in losses (two behind Fumero).

The Pamplona native was 6-5 with a save and a 4.78 ERA in 2012. He tied Fumero and Harold Rumión for 10th in wins and tied Belmonte for the most appearances (19). He was later pitching coach for CB Barcelona, winning a pennant with them in 2013. He later was a coach for the Catalunya baseball academy.