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Jose Altuve

Jose Altuve is a baseball player born in Puerto Cabello,


Venezuela May 6, 1990 He was called up to the Major
Leagues for the first time on July 19, 201. On July 13, 2013,
Altuve signed a contract extension for four years and $ 12.5
million with the Astros. 2014 Altuve was chosen to
participate as a substitute in the 2014 All-Star Game,
obtained the leaders in hits (225), stolen bases (56) and
batting average (341) of the American League, in addition
to breaking the record of Craig Biggio. 2015
He was chosen as the starting second baseman in the 2015
All-Star Game voting, the third time in his career that he has
been part of this event. 2016
For the second year in a row, he was chosen as the starting
second baseman in the 2016 All-Star Game voting, the
fourth time in his career that he is part of this event. With a
final average of .338 Altuve won his second batting title in 3
years, giving Venezuela for the seventh time a leading
batting leader in the majors in a row. In the 2017 season,
Altuve was called up to be the American League's starting
second baseman for the third time in a row, the fifth time in
total he has been called up to the All-Star Game.

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