Enmanuel Valdez #47

Enmanuel ("ENN-man-well") Valdez...Wife's name is Katerin...Has a daughter and a son...Grew up a fan of Boston's David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez...Was signed by Astros scouts Jose Lima, Oz Ocampo and Roman Ocumarez.

2025

Did not appear in a Minor League game before being recalled from Indianapolis on March 28 when Nick Gonzales was placed on the 10-day injured list...Made his first Major League appearance in right field during his season debut on March 29 at Miami (also played second base after entering the game as a defensive replacement in the 12th inning)...Made his first Major League appearance/start at first base on March 30 at Miami...Collected his first hit with Pittsburgh, a two-run double off Marcus Stroman, on April 5 vs. New York (AL)...Recorded his first Major League triple on April 6 vs. New York (AL)...Hit his first home run with the Pirates on April 18 vs. Cleveland, a two-run shot off Jakob Junis (also had an RBI single that night)...Hit the tail end of back-to-back home runs with Andrew McCutchen (off Tyler Glasnow) on April 27 at Dodger Stadium...Played in his final game on May 7 at St. Louis...Was placed on the 10-day injured list with left shoulder inflammation on May 9 (retro to May 8...Was transferred to the 60-day injured list on May 14...Underwent season-ending surgery to repair his dislocated shoulder on May 20 (performed by Dr. Jeffrey Dugas in Birmingham, Ala.).

2024

Made his first Major League Opening Day roster and played in 76 games over four stints with the Red Sox...Made 65 appearances (56 starts) at second base and three appearances (one start on 9/29) at third base...Also played 1.0 inning in left field on 5/29 at Baltimore (his first appearance in the outfield since 9/16/22)…Went 4-for-10 with a walk, two doubles and a sac fly as a pinch hitter...Batted .237 (40-for-169) with all six of his home runs vs. RHP and .094 (3- for-32) vs. LHP...Hit a three-run homer on 3/31 at Seattle... Was optioned to Triple-A Worcester on 5/2 after hitting .156 (14-for-90) with a homer and 11 RBI in 28 games with the Red Sox...Went 4-for-4 with three doubles on 5/5 vs. Lehigh Valley...Was recalled on 5/29...Went 3-for-4 with two home runs as the DH on 6/1 vs. Detroit...Homered again on 6/6 at Chicago (AL)…Hit safely in five straight games from 6/1-6 (7- for-20, .350)…Produced a .290 (18-for-62) average and a .977 OPS in 23 games with Boston in June...Was optioned back to Worcester on 7/9...Went 5-for-5 on 8/1 vs. Buffalo (Game 1)…Was recalled on 8/7 and went 1-for-6 in three games before being optioned back to Triple-A on 8/14...Was recalled a final time on 9/1 and spent remainder of the season with Boston.

2023

Made his MLB debut and appeared in 49 games over four stints with BOS...Made 44 starts, all at 2B...Among AL rookies with at least 100 PA, ranked 10th in AVG (.266), 13th in SLG (.453) and 16th in OPS (.764)...133 of his 149 PA came against RHP...Batted .280 (35- for-125) against righties (2-for-14, BB, HBP vs. LHP)...Slashed .292/.333/.510 with six HR and 18 RBI in night games, compared to .209/.261/.362 with zero HR and one RBI during the day...Batted .254 with an .864 OPS in 57 games for Triple-A Worcester (48-for-189, 8 2B, 2 3B, 10 HR, 41 RBI, 41 BB). 

2022

Split the season between the BOS and HOU systems... Hit .296 (148-for-500) with a .918 OPS, 92 runs, 35 2B, two 3B, 28 HR and 107 RBI. Played 44 games for Triple-A Worcester, 38 for Triple-A Sugar Land and 44 for Double-A Corpus Christi. Named to the 2022 MLB Pipeline Prospect Team of the Year (1st Team) at second base. Was one of four MiLB players with at least 35 2B, 25 HR, and 100 RBI during 2022 (see table on right). Set career highs in games played (126), runs (92), hits (148), doubles (35), HR (28), RBI (107), AVG (.296), OBP (.376), SLG (.542) and OPS (.918). Ranked among all minor leaguers in RBI (T-6th), total bases (8th, 271) and XBH (T-12th, 65). Led HOU minor leaguers in AVG (.327). In 82 games at the Triple-A level, hit .265 (88-for-332) with an .815 OPS, 52 runs, 19 2B, two 3B, 17 HR and 62 RBI. Hit multiple HR in a game four times: twice with Sugar Land and once each with Corpus Christi and Worcester. Posted a .309 AVG/.996 OPS against RHP compared to a .261 AVG/.703 OPS against LHP. Recorded 44 multi-hit games, including 16 with at least three hits, and two with a season-high four hits.

2021

Had a career-high seven RBI with Asheville (Astros' High-A) on May 26 vs. Bowling Green...Homered in a career-high three straight games from May 23-26...Was named an MiLB.com Organizational All-Star after batting a combined .255 (93-for-365) with 22 doubles, 26 home runs and 90 RBI in his 98 games split between Asheville and Corpus Christi.

2020

Did not play during the entire year due to COVID-19.

2016-19

Hit grand slams with Fayetteville (Astros' Class-A, Advanced) on June 11, 2019 vs. Myrtle Beach and Aug. 17, 2019 at Frederick...Played in four playoff games with Tri-City (Astros' Class-A, Short-Season) in 2018...Also played for the DSL Astros Orange/Blue, Greeneville and the GCL Astros (Astros' Rookie-Level), in addition to Quad Cities (Astros' Class-A).