Osmani Urrutia Ramírez

Cuban baseball player. He won six batting titles in the same tournament and was honored with a Most Valuable Player plaque for his extraordinary work on the field. Runner-up in the I World Baseball Classic and Champion of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

Height: 5-10. Weight: 229. Throws: Right. Bats: Right.

Owner of an incomparable and extremely difficult milestone to match in the history of Cuban baseball tournaments: six batting titles in the same tournament.

Of the half dozen crowns, five were consecutive and four he raised above the barrier of 420 points.

Among those marks, the most significant (469 in the 2003-04 season), is the highest average achieved by a batter in more than 130 years of winter tournaments.

Urrutia was a player with standard defensive abilities, although he could play all three outfield positions and his arm strength was respectable.

He also did not show much speed on the basepaths and his long-range power at the plate was not too intimidating, despite having plenty of strength to develop it.

But when it came to batting, and batting for average, no one surpassed him in the era he played.

In fact, he came to dispute that supremacy with Omar Linares, when in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century he established himself at the top of all players who had wielded a bat in any Cuban baseball tournament. But a slight drop in productivity caused him to fall two points below "El Niño" Linares' percentage at the moment of his retirement.

Urrutia made his debut with the Las Tunas club in the 1993-1994 season and in the 2003-2004 contest, four years before his final campaign, he was honored with a Most Valuable Player plaque for his extraordinary work on the field.