Dmitry Golubev

Dmitry Golubev also translited as Goloubev, Goliubev

• Bats Left, Throws Right

• Born September 19, 1973

Biographical Information

Dmitry Golubev was a Russian player of the 1990s.

He debuted in the Russian League in 1992, hitting .261/.320/.326 for MGU, then moved to the Moscow Red Devils in '94, batting .324/.455/.559. In 1995, he hit .286/.447/.506 for Moscow with 20 RBI and 24 runs in 23 games. In the 1995 European Championship, he produced at a .357/.400/.571 clip as the starting center fielder for the Russian national team, fielding .875 with one assist in six games. He was second on the team in slugging (behind minor leaguer Evgeny Puchkov) and third in average (trailing Puchkov and Nikolay Marishev). He was not the only Golubev on the team, which also included Alexey Golubev (presumably a relative).

Golubev scored 29 runs in 20 games in 1996, batting .318/.531/.470 with 30 walks and 14 steals in 16 tries. In 1997, he hit .283/.529/.348 for CSKA and PVO with a league-high 21 walks in 18 games. He tied for 6th in RBI, was third in OBP and tied Rouslan Nabiev for 4th in runs. (League leaders are not available other than 1997-2000 in English online as of Apr. 2016).

Dmitri was excellent for SKV in 1998, producing at a .528/.628/.847 clip with 33 runs and 31 RBI in 21 games. He was second in average (by .009), 3rd in OPS (between Nabiev and Andrei Selivanov), first in total bases (61, 6 ahead of Sergey Solovjev), 3rd in slugging, tied for second in home runs (3), led in RBI (one over Selivanov), was 3rd in walks, ranked second in OBP, tied for the doubles lead (10), tied Solovjev for the hit lead (38), tied for the run lead and tied for the extra-base hit lead (15).

In the 1998 Baseball World Cup, he was 2 for 20 with two walks, a steal and a run for Russia, handling 22 chances error-free in center field. He hit .423/.523/.704 in the 1999 Russian League, good for 7th in average, 4th in OPS, 4th in slugging, 6th in total bases (70), 6th in OBP, tied for 5th in RBI (28) and 7th in hits (30). He hit .222/.300/.278 as Russia's center fielder in the 1999 European Championship, tying for the team lead with three runs.

For RusStar in 2000, he batted .314/.417/.486 with 33 runs and 24 RBI in 28 games, going 15-for-16 in steals. He was 7th in OPS, tied Dmitry Likhin for 7th in total bases (64), was 7th in slugging, tied for 7th in walks (28), tied for 7th in extra-base hits (15), was 6th in runs and led with 8 triples (3 more than Alexander Nizov or Alexandre Bogatyrev). Statistics are unavailable for any season following 2000.

Sources

• Russian League baseball
• Defunct IBAF site
• International baseball statistician Harry Wedemeijer