Carlos Subero

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Carlos I. Subero

• Bats Both, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 155 lb.

• Born June 15, 1972 in Caracas, Distrito Capital Venezuela

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Venezuelan native Carlos Subero, an infielder, played in the Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Texas Rangers organizations from 1991 to 1995. In his first year, he hit .262/~.293/.339 for the GCL Royals and was 4 for 23 with the Eugene Emeralds. He was named as the 3rd top prospect in the Gulf Coast League by Baseball America that year. At age 20, he batted .289/~.341/.382 with the GCL Royals, went six for six in steals and was second on the team with 30 RBI (in 40 games). With Eugene, he was 5 for 22 with a triple in 1992.

Carlos spent all of 1993 with Eugene and led the Northwest League in both sacrifice flies (6) and fielding percentage by a shortstop (.945). He produced at a .243/~.294/.275 clip. Moving up to full-season A ball, Subero hit .221/.249/.293 for the first-place Rockford Royals in 1994.

Let go by Kansas City, Subero spent 1995 with Pittsburgh-affiliated Augusta (.186/~.202/.206) and Texas farm club Charlotte (.136/~.136/.159). He resurfaced briefly in 1997 with the Meridian Brakemen, hitting .275 to wrap up his playing career.

Subero was a coach for the GCL Rangers in 1999-2000 and managed the club the next two seasons. He then managed the Clinton LumberKings in 2003-2005. In 2006-2007, he was the manager of the Bakersfield Blaze of the California League. In 2008 Subero went to the Chicago White Sox organization as manager of the Birmingham Barons, reaching the playoffs led by a pitching staff that topped the league in ERA.

Currently in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, Carlos has managed the Inland Empire 66ers in 2009 and Chattanooga Lookouts in 2010 and 2011. He clinched the 2nd half title with Chattanooga in 2011, also led by a pitching staff that topped the league in ERA. He returned to manage Chattanooga in 2012.

He went to the All-Star Futures Game in New York, NY in 2008 and Anaheim, CA in 2010, as a coach for the World Team.

He is also known as the youngest manager to ever win a Caribbean World Series at 33 years old (the record had been held by Manny Acta, who did it by managing the Tigres del Licey to a title when he was 34). Subero did it with Leones del Caracas from his home Venezuela in the 2006 Caribbean Series, after having won the Venezuelan League championship that same year. He is only one of two Venezuelan natives to manage a Caribbean Series winner, joining the popular "Chico" Carrasquel, very well known in the "Windy City".

He has managed in the Venezuelan Winter League in 2001 and from 2005-2010.

Sources include 1992-1998 Baseball Almanacs, 1995 Baseball Guide

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