Please answer the following question: Larry Kent Sheets (born December 6 1959 in Staunton Virginia) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played for the Baltimore Orioles Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners from 1984 to 1990 and 1993. He also played one season in Japan for the Yokohama Taiyo Whales in 1992.Sheets had his best season in 1987 with the Orioles when he finished with career highs in batting average (.316) home runs (31) and RBIs (94). 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