Warren Cromartie

Warren Cromartie
Cromartie with the Montreal Expos in 1980
Outfielder / First baseman
Born: (1953-09-29) September 29, 1953 (age 71) Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
Batted: Left Threw: Left
Professional debut
MLB: September 6, 1974, for the Montreal Expos
NPB: April 6, 1984, for the Yomiuri Giants
Last appearance
NPB: June 2, 1990, for the Yomiuri Giants
MLB: September 15, 1991, for the Kansas City Royals
MLB statistics
Batting average	.281
Home run	61
Runs batted in	391
NPB statistics
Batting average	.321
Home runs	171
Runs batted in	558
Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
Montreal Expos (1974–1983) Yomiuri Giants (1984–1990) Kansas City Royals (1991)
Career highlights and awards
3× NPB All-Star (1985, 1989, 1990) Japan Series champion (1989) CL MVP (1989) 3× Best Nine Award (1986, 1987, 1989)

Warren Livingston Cromartie (born September 29, 1953) is an American former professional baseball player best remembered for his early career with the Montreal Expos. He and fellow young outfielders Ellis Valentine and Andre Dawson were the talk of Major League Baseball (MLB) when they came up together with the Expos in the late seventies.^[1] Nicknamed "Cro" and "the Black Samurai" in Japan, he was very popular with the fans in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He won the 1989 Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award during his career playing baseball in Japan for the Yomiuri Giants.