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07/27/2017 – Puig – Clayton Kershaw’s 5th Annual Ping Pong 4 Purpose Celebrity Tournament – Arrivals – Dodger Stadium, 1000 Vin Scully Avenue – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: Guillermo Proano / PR Photos
Birth Name: Yasiel Puig Valdés
Place of Birth: Cienfuegos, Cuba
Date of Birth: December 7, 1990
Ethnicity: African-Cuban
Yasiel Puig is a Cuban-American professional baseball player. A right fielder, he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB), and the Kiwoom Heroes of the KBO League. He is nicknamed “The Wild Horse.”
Yasiel is the son of Maritza Valdés and Omar Puig, and began playing in Cuba. He has four children. He became a U.S. citizen in 2019.