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Top 60 All-Time Greatest Blue Jays: #54 Otto Velez
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Otto Franceschi Velez | DH,RF,LF | 1977-1982
Here is a name from the distant past. Otto Velez was born November 29, 1950, in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was signed as an amateur free agent in 1968, by the New York Yankees. In 1973 he made it to the majors playing in 23 games as a September call up for the Yankees. For the next 3 seasons, he played a handful of games for the Yankees but he was blocked from a full-time job by the Yankee’s fondness for signing free agents.
The Jays picked Otto up in the major league expansion draft in 1976. That first year the Jays were awful, finishing with a 54-107 record and didn’t get much better in the years Otto was with the team. But, he was pretty good, in 1977 he hit .256/.366/.458 with 16 home runs and 62 RBI in 120 games. He had a good eye at the plate leading the team in walks. He mostly played right field that year and he was, well, terrible as an RFer. Rob Neyer says that Velez was the worst right fielder in team history and I can’t argue that. He had little range and basically no arm at all. But the team had a 38 year old Ron Fairly and a handful of other guys that really couldn’t field, so the DH spot was filled. A typical right-handed slugger he crushed lefties, hitting them at a .318/.420/.527 rate.

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