Rey Francisco Quiñones is a Puerto Rican baseball infielder who had a short career in Major League Baseball

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, primarily as a shortstop.

He played for the Boston Red Sox

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, the Seattle Mariners

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, and the Pittsburgh Pirates

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 from 1986 to 1989. Boston traded him (along with Mike Brown

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 and Mike Trujillo

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) to the Mariners for Spike Owen

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 and Dave Henderson

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. The Pirates released him after a few months.

He had an outstanding arm (and a terrific smile), but lacked consistency. He was the subject of controversy when he left the Mariners without permission to attend the funeral of a relative in Puerto Rico

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. Quiñones also once missed a game with an injury related to playing Nintendo.

He played 451 games and hit for a .245 average, with 29 home runs and 159 RBIs.

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