Octavio Dotel

Octavio Dotel
Octavio Dotel
	Dotel with the Tigers in 2012
	Pitcher
	Born: November 25, 1973 (age 51); Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
	June 26, 1999, for the New York Mets
Last MLB appearance
	April 19, 2013, for the Detroit Tigers
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	59–50
Earned run average	3.78
Strikeouts	1,143
Saves	109
	Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
	New York Mets (1999); Houston Astros (2000–2004); Oakland Athletics (2004–2005); New York Yankees (2006); Kansas City Royals (2007); Atlanta Braves (2007); Chicago White Sox (2008–2009); Pittsburgh Pirates (2010); Los Angeles Dodgers (2010); Colorado Rockies (2010); Toronto Blue Jays (2011); St. Louis Cardinals (2011); Detroit Tigers (2012–2013);
Career highlights and awards
	World Series champion (2011); Pitched a combined no-hitter on June 11, 2003;
Medals
Men's baseball
Representing Dominican Republic
World Baseball Classic

Octavio Eduardo Dotel Diaz (born November 25, 1973) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. Dotel played for 13 major league teams, the second most teams played for by any player in the history of Major League Baseball (MLB), setting the mark when he pitched for the Detroit Tigers on April 7, 2012, breaking a record previously held by Mike Morgan, Matt Stairs, and Ron Villone.^[1] Edwin Jackson broke this record in 2019.^[2] Dotel's longest tenure with any one team was the five seasons he spent with the Houston Astros.

Dotel won the 2011 World Series as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2013, as part of the World Baseball Classic champions along with fellow Dominicans Robinson Canó and Santiago Casilla, Dotel became one of the few players in history to win both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic.