Editing Steve Torrealba

{{short description|Venezuelan baseball player}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|image=
|name=Steve Torrealba
|position=[[Catcher]]
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1978|2|24}}
|birth_place=[[Barquisimeto]], [[Venezuela]]
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=October 6
|debutyear=2001
|debutteam=Atlanta Braves
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 29
|finalyear=2002
|finalteam=Atlanta Braves
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.105
|stat2label=[[Home run]]s
|stat2value=0
|stat3label=[[Run batted in|Runs batted in]]
|stat3value=1
|teams=
*[[Atlanta Braves]] ({{mlby|2001}}–{{mlby|2002}})
}}
'''Steven Alexander Torrealba''' [tor-ray-AHL-bah] (born February 24, 1978, in [[Barquisimeto]], [[Venezuela]]) is a former [[Major League Baseball]] [[catcher]]. He is a right-handed batter who played in the majors for the [[Atlanta Braves]] (2001–2002). Torrealba's father, [[Pablo Torrealba]], also pitched for the Braves, along with the [[Oakland Athletics|Athletics]] and [[Chicago White Sox|White Sox]] from 1975 to 1979.

==Career==
Torrealba was signed as an undrafted [[free agent]] by the Atlanta Braves in 1995, working his way up the system until he made his major league debut on October 6, 2001. In his only [[at-bat]] of the postseason in 2001, Torrealba hit a [[Double (baseball)|double]] in Game 1 of the [[National League Division Series|NLDS]] against the [[Houston Astros]]. He appeared in only 2 games for the Braves in 2001 and 13 in 2002 and became a free agent after the 2002 season. On February 13, 2003, he signed with the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] and played 46 games for Triple-A [[Memphis Redbirds|Memphis]], becoming a free agent after the season. On February 4, 2004, he signed with the [[New York Yankees]]. Torrealba played only 4 games for Triple-A [[Columbus Clippers|Columbus]] before being released on April 28.

In 2005, he signed with the [[Long Island Ducks]] of the independent [[Atlantic League of Professional Baseball|Atlantic League]]. He played 98 games, [[Batting average (baseball)|batting]] .263 with 8 [[home run]]s. In 2006, he played with the [[Atlantic City Surf]], after being signed by the [[Cincinnati Reds]] in January, but not playing any games for them. On January 10, 2007, Torrealba signed with the [[Detroit Tigers]] and played for their Double-A affiliate in [[Erie SeaWolves|Erie]]. He spent 2008 and 2009 in the [[Baltimore Orioles]] organization before becoming a free agent at the end of the 2009 season.

In a two-season career, Torrealba hit .105 with one [[Run batted in|RBI]] in 17 [[games played]].

==See also==
* [[List of second-generation Major League Baseball players]]
* [[List of Major League Baseball players from Venezuela]]

==External links==
{{baseballstats | br=t/torrest01|brm=torrea001ste}}, or [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/T/Ptorrs002.htm Retrosheet]

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