page_title: Octavio Dotel
section_title: St. Louis Cardinals
hierarchical_section_title: Octavio Dotel / Career / St. Louis Cardinals
caption_attribution_description: English: Octavio Dotel during the 2011 World Series victory parade Saint Louis Oct 30, 2011.
context_page_description: Octavio Eduardo Dotel Diaz is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. Dotel played for thirteen major league teams, the second most teams played for by any player in the history of Major League Baseball, setting the mark when he pitched for the Detroit Tigers on April 7, 2012, breaking a record previously held by Mike Morgan, Matt Stairs, and Ron Villone. Edwin Jackson broke this record in 2019. He was a member of the Houston Astros for 5 seasons.
  Dotel made his MLB debut on June 26, 1999, for the New York Mets and lost. His first MLB win came July 1, 1999, against the Florida Marlins. He ended the season as the winning pitcher in the 1999 National League Championship Series game five against the Atlanta Braves.
  He was voted Player of the Week for the week of July 25, 1999. Dotel won the 2011 World Series as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2013, as part of the World Baseball Classic champions along with fellow Dominicans Robinson Canó and Santiago Casilla, Dotel became one of the few players in history to win both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic.
context_section_description: On July 27, 2011, Dotel was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals with Edwin Jackson, Marc Rzepczynski and Corey Patterson for Colby Rasmus, P. J. Walters, Trever Miller and Brian Tallet. Dotel got his first championship title when the Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers in the 2011 World Series.  On October 31, 2011 it was announced that Cardinals would not pick up his team option for the 2012 season, making Dotel a type A free agent.
caption: Dotel during the 2011 World Series parade
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