Luis Rafael Garcia (born May 20, 1975) is a retired

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. He played during one season at the major league level for the Detroit Tigers. He was signed by the Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1993. Garcia played his first professional season (in American baseball) with their Rookie league

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in 1993, and split his last season with the Triple-A teams of the

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( Rochester Red Wings) and Pittsburgh Pirates ( Nashville Sounds) in 2002. Garcia's American-born son, also named

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, signed with the

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as an amateur free agent out of the Dominican Republic in 2016.

References

"Luis Garcia Statistics".
''The Baseball Cube''. 14 January 2008.
"Luis Garcia Statistics".
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