What is Placido Polanco's Net Worth?
Placido Polanco is a Dominican-American professional baseball player who has a net worth of $20 million. Placido Polanco was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1975. He made his professional debut in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals on July 3, 1998. Polanco played with the Cardinals until 2002, when he joined the Philadelphia Phillies from 2002 until 2005. He later played with the Detroit Tigers from 2005 until 2009 before a second stint in the City of Brotherly Love from 2010 until 2012.
He last played with the Miami Marlins in 2013, and, as of the end of the 2014 season, remains a free agent. To date, Polanco has a 2.97 career batting average with 104 home runs, 723 runs batted in, and more than 2,000 hits. He is a two-time MLB All-Star (2007, 2011) and won the ALCS MVP Award in 2006 while with the Tigers. Polanco is also a three-time Gold Glove Award winner (2007, 2009, 2011) and a Silver Slugger Award winner (2007). He and 99 others were granted their American citizenship at a ceremony at Comerica Park before a baseball game in July of 2008. Polanco has two children with his wife, Lily.