Camacho named Central League Player of the Year
August 24, 2005 - Central Baseball League (Central League) News Release
The Central League has named El Paso 1B Juan Camacho its 2005 Player of the Year, as voted upon by league managers. Last week, he was also named the CL's all-star first baseman on the 11-member postseason all-star team.
The Maracaibo, Venezuela, native led the league with 100 RBI, finished the season second with 21 home runs, second with a .598 slugging percentage and eighth with a .328 average as the Diablos narrowly missed the playoffs in their first season in the Central League.
This was the 24-year-old's eighth season in professional baseball; signed as a nondrafted free agent by the New York Yankees in 1997, Camacho spent six seasons in the Yankees organization, leading the New York-Penn League with 51 RBI for Staten Island in 2001. Last year, he split time between Pennsylvania of the Atlantic League and Gary of the Northern League.
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