Born July 3, 1966
Atlanta, GA, USA
Seventeen seasons gave him 2,134 hits, 332 home runs, 1,287 runs batted in and a .303 average, with six All-Star selections and two Silver Sluggers. He is the son of Felipe Alou, who managed him in Montreal, and the nephew of Matty and Jesús, which makes four Alous in the major-league record.
In the eighth inning of the sixth game of the 2003 National League Championship Series a foul ball came down the left-field line and a Chicago spectator reached for it at the same moment he did. The Cubs were five outs from a pennant they did not win, and the clip has been shown more than any single play of the decade. He said afterward he would have caught it, and later said he would not have.
He won the World Series with Florida in 1997 and drove in 115 runs that year. He played until he was forty-one, missing large parts of several seasons to injury, and the .303 is the figure worth keeping. The writers gave him six votes of 571 in 2014.
| Award | Times | Years |
|---|---|---|
| All-Star selection | 6 | 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005 |
| Player of the Week | 4 | 1993, 1994, 1998, 2002 |
| Silver Slugger | 2 | 1994, 1998 |
| The Sporting News All-Star | 2 | 1994, 1998 |
| Babe Ruth Award | 1 | 1997 |
| Year | Team | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | MON/PIT | 16 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .200 |
| 1992 | MON | 115 | 341 | 53 | 96 | 28 | 2 | 9 | 56 | 25 | 46 | 16 | .282 |
| 1993 | MON | 136 | 482 | 70 | 138 | 29 | 6 | 18 | 85 | 38 | 53 | 17 | .286 |
| 1994 | MON | 107 | 422 | 81 | 143 | 31 | 5 | 22 | 78 | 42 | 63 | 7 | .339 |
| 1995 | MON | 93 | 344 | 48 | 94 | 22 | 0 | 14 | 58 | 29 | 56 | 4 | .273 |
| 1996 | MON | 143 | 540 | 87 | 152 | 28 | 2 | 21 | 96 | 49 | 83 | 9 | .281 |
| 1997 | FLA | 150 | 538 | 88 | 157 | 29 | 5 | 23 | 115 | 70 | 85 | 9 | .292 |
| 1998 | HOU | 159 | 584 | 104 | 182 | 34 | 5 | 38 | 124 | 84 | 87 | 11 | .312 |
| 2000 | HOU | 126 | 454 | 82 | 161 | 28 | 2 | 30 | 114 | 52 | 45 | 3 | .355 |
| 2001 | HOU | 136 | 513 | 79 | 170 | 31 | 1 | 27 | 108 | 57 | 57 | 5 | .331 |
| 2002 | CHC | 132 | 484 | 50 | 133 | 23 | 1 | 15 | 61 | 47 | 61 | 8 | .275 |
| 2003 | CHC | 151 | 565 | 83 | 158 | 35 | 1 | 22 | 91 | 63 | 67 | 3 | .280 |
| 2004 | CHC | 155 | 601 | 106 | 176 | 36 | 3 | 39 | 106 | 68 | 80 | 3 | .293 |
| 2005 | SFG | 123 | 427 | 67 | 137 | 21 | 3 | 19 | 63 | 56 | 43 | 5 | .321 |
| 2006 | SFG | 98 | 345 | 52 | 104 | 25 | 1 | 22 | 74 | 28 | 31 | 2 | .301 |
| 2007 | NYM | 87 | 328 | 51 | 112 | 19 | 1 | 13 | 49 | 27 | 30 | 3 | .341 |
| 2008 | NYM | 15 | 49 | 4 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .347 |
| Career | — | 1942 | 7037 | 1109 | 2134 | 421 | 39 | 332 | 1287 | 737 | 894 | 106 | .303 |
Atlanta, GA, USA
Moisés Alou made a major-league debut on July 26, 1990.
Moisés Alou hit three home runs for the Chicago Cubs against the St. Louis Cardinals on July 4, 2003.
Moisés Alou played a final major-league game on June 10, 2008.
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