Alfredo Benavides (born April 7, 1966) is an American former

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. Benavides is now a coach with the

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Career

Benavides was born in Laredo, Texas. He is of Mexican-American descent. He attended

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. Drafted by the Reds in the 2nd round of the 1987

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amateur draft, Benavides made his Major League Baseball debut with Cincinnati on May 14, 1991. Benavides was then a member of the inaugural

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team, which began play in Major League Baseball in

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, after which he was traded to the

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, where he played his final big league game on August 11, 1994. During the 2007 season he spent time as interim manager of the Cincinnati Reds Rookie-Advanced farm club, the

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. He has also served as the infield coordinator of the Cincinnati Reds Minor League Teams and is also head coach of the Freddie Benavides Baseball Academy, which takes place in Laredo from late November to mid January yearly. In 2016, following Billy Hatcher's move to third-base coach, Benavides became the first-base coach of the Cincinnati Reds. Following the 2018 season, Benavides was named the bench coach for the 2019 Reds under their new manager David Bell. On April 9, 2019, Benavides served as the interim manager for the Reds while current Reds manager David Bell was serving his one-game suspension after a bench-clearing incident against the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 7, 2019.

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1966 births Living people American baseball players of Mexican descent American expatriate baseball players in Canada Baseball coaches from Texas Baseball players from Texas Billings Mustangs managers Cincinnati Reds coaches Cincinnati Reds players Colorado Rockies players J. W. Nixon High School alumni Major League Baseball bench coaches Major League Baseball second basemen Major League Baseball shortstops Montreal Expos players Nashville Sounds players People from Laredo, Texas TCU Horned Frogs baseball players Texas Christian University alumni {{Texas-bio-stub