finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
2000 right navojoa , sonora 1998 september 30 .222 7 33 third baseman san diego padres batting average home runs runs batted in june 22 6 march 1974 gabe alvarez
 detroit tigers gabe alvarez right
gabe alvarez

gabriel de jesus alvarez -lrb- born march 6 , 1974 -rrb- is a former major league baseball third baseman .
he played for two teams , the detroit tigers -lrb- 1998 -- 2000 -rrb- and the san diego padres -lrb- 2000 -rrb- .
the 6 ' 1 , 205 lb right-hander went to usc and made his major league debut on june 22 , 1998 , going 1 -- 4 .
he was originally drafted by the san diego padres in the second round of the 1995 draft .
he was then drafted by the arizona diamondbacks as the fifth pick in the 1997 expansion draft .
he was then traded by the arizona diamondbacks with matt drews and joe randa to the detroit tigers for travis fryman .
three years later , on july 17 , 2000 , he was traded again by the detroit tigers to the san diego padres for dusty allen .
he finished his career with 59 hits , a .222 batting average , 29 runs , and a .877 fielding percentage .
while playing in the minor leagues for rancho cucamonga in 1995 , he turned an unassisted triple play as a second baseman .
he caught a line drive over second base , stepped on the bag to get one runner and tagged the other one coming into second from first .
he told the reporter covering the game that exactly the same thing had happened to him the previous year at usc , but he threw to first instead of tagging the runner to complete the triple play .
he said a teammate had pointed out that he had missed a chance at an unassisted triple play , and he had promised himself if it ever happened again , he would do it differently .
in 2010 , alvarez became the assistant baseball coach at the university of southern california -lrb- usc -rrb- .
