Please answer the following question: Michael Lee Oquist (May 30 1968 in La Junta Colorado) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1993-1999. He played for the Baltimore Orioles San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics.Oquist played collegiate baseball at the University of Arkansas prior to turning professional.On August 3 1998 Oquist gave up 14 earned runs to the New York Yankees. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete