American baseball player and manager

Rod Barajas

Rodrigo Richard Barajas is an American former professional baseball catcher and current quality control coach for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Barajas served as the interim manager for the San Diego Padres after Andy Green's firing on September 21, 2019. As a player in MLB, he played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Pittsburgh Pirates. With the Diamondbacks, he won the 2001 World Series over the then reigning, three-time world champion New York Yankees.

Born

1975

September 5

Died

Living

Era

1970s

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Rod, in brief

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Key dates

1975 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

917 Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu.
1367 Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
1590 An army led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
1661 Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king's musketeers.

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The world in 1975

When Rod arrived

april 13 Beirut bus massacre: A confrontation between Phalangist paramilitaries and PLO militia marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
april 17 The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
april 19 India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
april 19 South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on September 5

Bill Mazeroski 1936– American baseball player and coach (died 2026) Caspar David Friedrich 1774–1840 German painter and educator (born 1774) Dave Dryden 1941– Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022) Fan Zhongyan 989– Chinese chancellor (died 1052) Gareth Evans 1944– Australian lawyer and politician, 33rd Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791–1864 German composer and educator (born 1791) Henry Maitland Wilson 1881–1964 English field marshal (born 1881) Jane Sixsmith 1967– English field hockey player Morris Carnovsky 1897– American actor (died 1992)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1975

Alanna Ubach 1975– American actress Alexandre Daigle 1975– Canadian ice hockey player Alicia Witt 1975– American actress and musician Asia Argento 1975– Italian actress Cristobal Huet 1975– French ice hockey player David Ortiz 1975– Dominican-American baseball player Dulé Hill 1975– American actor Eva Longoria 1975– American actress Garrison Starr 1975– American singer-songwriter and producer

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