Q:Nerio Rodriguez (born March 22 1973 in Bani Dominican Republic) is a former Dominican baseball player. A pitcher Rodriguez played Major League Baseball from 1996 to 1999 for the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays. In 2002 he played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Cleveland Indians. 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