Anderson Hidalgo

Anderson José Hidalgo Sosa

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 9", Weight 192 lb.

• High School U.E. Francisco Gonzalez Guinan

• Born September 5, 1988 in Valencia, Carabobo Venezuela

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Biographical Information

Anderson Hidalgo has played in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the USA and Italy and has been on the Venezuelan national team.

Hidalgo was signed by Minnesota Twins scout José León in 2006. He played six different positions (no C, 1B or P) for the 2006 VSL Twins/Blue Jays, hitting .310/.372/.401 with 43 RBI in 66 games. He was 9th in the Venezuelan League in average and 6th in RBI. He remained steady at .305/.398/.437 for the 2007 DSL Twins while fielding a slick .995 at second base.

Coming stateside in 2008, he hit .364/.453/.466 in 107 plate appearances for the GCL Twins, not playing enough to make the Gulf Coast League leaderboards. In 2009, he hit .291/.379/.469 for the Elizabethton Twins, fielding .919 at the hot corner. He improved to .938 there for the 2010 Beloit Snappers while batting .316/.375/.443 with 25 doubles in 81 games. Had he qualified, he would have been second in the Midwest League in average, .002 behind Brian Cavazos-Galvez. He produced at a .274/.332/.395 clip for the 2011 Fort Myers Miracle but fell to .236/.299/.319 for the same club in 2012. He had batted .290/.360/.408 in 462 minor league games.

He spent the next three years with the independent Lake Erie Crushers. He hit .281/.355/.371 in 2013, then .295/.397/.410 in 2014 and .302/.381/.392 in 2015. He was 3 for 15 with a double for the 2015-2016 Tigres de Aragua and 0 for 1 for them in 2016-2017. He signed with Italy's Padova BSC for 2018 and hit .316/.381/.432. His four sacrifice flies tied Nick Nosti for the league lead. In 2019, he batted .280/.391/.507 with 22 RBI in 22 games for the Rangers Redipuglia. He was 5th in the loop in assists (61, between Mattia Bucchi and Julian Dreni.

The Valencia native played for the Venezuelan team that won Bronze in the 2022 Bolivarian Games. Backing up Junnell Ledezma at third base, his first game came against Peru. He drew a walk from Jorge Sivirichi his first time up then singled his next, but was thrown out by Johan Verastegui while trying to steal. He made an error his lone chance in the field then was replaced in the lineup by Yhostin Chirinos, Ledezma moving from 2B to 3B. He was 1 for 3 the rest of the Games.