debutleague finalyear bats birth_place debutyear statvalue position finalteam statlabel birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
kbo 2003 right panama city , panama 2002 9 -- 12 3.63 147 pitcher hanwha eagles win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts 23 july 1966 len picota
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len picota

lenin alberto picota -lrb- born july 23 , 1966 in panama -rrb- is a former professional baseball pitcher .
he played two seasons in the korea baseball organization for the hanwha eagles in 2002 -- 2003 .
during his career , picota has gone by multiple names , his full name -lrb- lenin -rrb- as well as two shortened versions -lrb- len or leny -rrb- .
picota -- a , right-hander -- was a starting pitching prospect in the st. louis cardinals farm system who got as high as aaa but never reached the majors .
he was signed as a free-agent on december 18 , 1983 .
perhaps his best season in the minors was 1986 , with the savannah cardinals .
that year , he went 6 -- 2 with a 2.00 era in 85 innings .
although he walked 67 and struck out only 45 , the fact that he gave up only 55 hits attributed to his success .
1988 was also a good season for him .
with the st. petersburg cardinals , he went 11 -- 10 with a 2.89 era in 143 innings .
he only gave up 130 hits that year , but he only struck out 65 batters .
apparently , he was not a strikeout pitcher .
in 2006 picota represented panama in the world baseball classic .
he has played a lot of international ball , whether it be in korea , mexico or chinese taipei .
he has also played independent baseball with the nashua pride .
in 2007 , he pitched three innings in the pan-american games , striking out two batters and allowing two runs .
picota was signed by the montreal expos at one point in his career after playing foreign ball for seven years .
he was released before opening day .
