Mariana Valdez

Mariana Alejandra Valdez Landaeta

• Bats Both, Throws Right
• Height 5' 3", Weight 132 lb.

• Born June 2, 2006

Biographical Information

Mariana Valdez debuted for the Venezuelan women's national team in the group portion of the 2023-2024 Women's Baseball World Cup; at age 17, she was their second-youngest player, ahead of only Valentina Linares. She still played regularly at catcher, starting all five games. She hit 9th in their opener versus France, drawing a walk from Camille Foucher her first time up and scoring the go-ahead run. She later hit a 3-run triple off Coralie Guillemin as part of a four-RBI game. She hit an excellent .533/.611/.733 with six runs and six RBI in five games, handling 30 chances error-free and throwing out 7 of 14 would-be base-stealers. She was among the group B leaders in runs (tied for 5th with Chiao-Yun Huang and Iori Miura), hits (tied Yuki Kawabata for the lead with 8), RBI (tied for 4th with Hsiao-Mei Chen, Libia Duarte and Nanako Hanabusa), total bases (tied Luz Feliciano for 3rd with 11), walks (3, tied for 4th), average (3rd, after Kawabata and Ambre Brouard), slugging (4th, between Feliciano and Haruna Tadano), OBP (tied Miura for 3rd), OPS (4th), putouts (22, 5th), assists (tied for 10th despite being at a low-assist position), fielding (only Kawabata had more chances without an error), steals allowed (4th) and caught stealing (1st, more than double runner-up Shih-Yun Lee; she had as many as the next three combined). Venezuela moved on to the 2024 portion.