Rainel Rosario

Rainel Alexander Rosario

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 190 lb.
• Born March 29, 1989 in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional D.R.

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Biographical Information

Outfielder Rainel Rosario began his professional career in 2006.

He began his run at 17 years old in the St. Louis Cardinals system, playing there from 2006 to 2012. Perhaps his best campaign in their chain was 2011, when he hit .270/.333/.398 with 9 home runs, 70 RBI at 15 stolen bases in 122 games for the High A Palm Beach Cardinals. After not playing in 2013, he went to Japan, suiting up for the Hiroshima Carp in 2014 and 2015. In 2014, he hit .336/.394/.584 with 14 home runs and 49 RBI in 69 games, though he fell to .258/.324/.347 with 2 home runs and 12 RBI in 42 games the next year. The Boston Red Sox signed him to a minor league deal for 2016 and he spent a year in their system, reaching Triple-A for the first and only time in affiliated ball that year—he went hitless in 7 at-bats with the Pawtucket Red Sox. He spent most of the year at Double-A.

Beginning in 2017, he became a Latin America nomad, bouncing from circuit to circuit. He spent time in the Mexican League, Mexican Pacific Winter League, Dominican Winter League and Venezuelan Winter League. It was in his Latin American travels that he developed a power stroke. In 2017, he hit .331/.406/.572 with 26 home runs and 104 RBI in 108 games for the Saraperos de Saltillo and a couple years later, in 2019, he hit .324/.407/.569 with 26 home runs and 84 RBI for the same club. In 2021, he had 20 homers, 54 RBI and a .323/.378/.624 line in 65 games for Saltillo.

2022 was his best campaign, as he hit 50 home runs at all levels. With Saltillo, he hit .372/.456/.792 with 38 home runs, 116 RBI and 103 runs scored in 90 games. With the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League, he hit .232/.296/.370 with 4 home runs and 21 RBI in 35 games and in the Venezuelan Winter League, he hit .333/.401/.553 with 8 home runs and 26 RBI in 34 games for the Navegantes del Magallanes. All told, he hit .332/.410/.644 with 50 home runs, 163 RBI, 141 runs scored, 206 hits and 39 doubles in 159 games that season. In 2023, he slipped to 17 home runs and 49 RBI for Saltillo. He returned to them to begin 2024.

Through 2024, he has hit over 230 home runs at all levels. He led the Mexican League in homers in 2017, 2021 and 2022.

He was on the Mexican roster for the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games, hitting .263/.318/.421 as their starting DH; they won Gold for the first time in baseball in the Central American and Caribbean Games, 97 years after debuting in the event.