finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
2001 right holguín , cuba 1996 august 8 19 -- 26 4.93 208 pitcher cincinnati reds win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts april 5 4 november 1968 osvaldo fernández
 san francisco giants osvaldo fernández right
osvaldo fernández

osvaldo fernández rodríguez -lrb- born november 4 , 1968 in holguín , cuba -rrb- is a former cuban professional baseball player who pitched in the major leagues from - and - .
he was a member of the cuban baseball team which won a gold medal at the 1992 summer olympics in barcelona , spain .
on july 29 , 1995 , fernández defected when the cuban national baseball team played the united states in millington , tennessee .
fernández also pitched for holguín in the cuban national series .
