Rafael Tobías Hernández Alvarado (born November 30, 1958) is a

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

n former professional

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. He played briefly for the

Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League East, East Division. Since 1989, the team has p ...

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(MLB) in its 1984 season.Major League Statistics and History
''Baseball Reference''. Retrieved on January 10, 2017. Hernández was regarded as a good-fielding, light-hitting catcher in the Jays organization, but after a long history of injuries he was able to reach the majors just at 31. In his brief stint at Toronto, he went 1-for-2 and scored a run in three games. Additionally, he posted a .223 average with 11

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s and 122 RBI in parts of seven minor league seasons between 1979 and 1985. In between, Hernández played winter ball with the

Cardenales de Lara The Cardenales de Lara () is a baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP). Founded in 1942 and based in Barquisimeto, the Cardenales have won seven domestic titles, including back-to-back in 1998 and 1999, 2019, 2020 and ...

club of the Venezuelan League in a span of 14 seasons from 1978 through 1991.Venezuelan League Statistics
''Pelota Binaria.'' Retrieved on January 10, 2017.

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