Yuniesky Betancourt Perez (born January 31 1982) is a Cuban professional baseball shortstop with the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball. Betancourt has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers Seattle Mariners and Kansas City Royals. He played in the Cuban National Series for Villa Clara before he defected from Cuba. 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?
Athlete