| Aramis, a 2005 National League All-Star,
was acquired by the Cubs at the trading deadline in 2003 ... has
surpassed the 100-RBI mark three times in the last five years
(112 in 2001; 106 in 2003; 103 in 2004) ... is the third Cubs
third baseman in club history to drive in 100 runs in a season
(joining Ron Santo and Andy Pafko) ... signed with the Pirates
as a 16-year-old non-drafted free agent in November 1994 and reached
the majors in 1998 ... in addition to being an NL All-Star, career
honors include: earning NL Player of the Week honors for the weeks
of April 30-May 6, 2001, and July 18-July 24, 2005 ... winning
the 2001 Roberto Clemente Award (as voted on by the Pittsburgh
chapter of the BBWAA) ... being selected to participate in the
Major League All-Star Futures Game in both 1999 and 2000 ... is
a 1995 graduate of Aida Cartagena Portalatin High School in Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2006 Highlights:
Ramirez set career highs in home runs (38) and RBIs (119). He
hit 22 homers in 72 games after the All-Star break. He has 14
career two-homer games and three career three-homer games. Ramirez
batted .293 with runners in scoring position, including a .327
mark with less than two outs.
2005 Highlights:
Aramis batted .302 with 30 doubles, 31 homers and 92 RBI despite
missing the final month of the season with a strained left quadriceps
... was selected to his first National League All-Star team, replacing
an injured Scott Rolen ... went 1-for-2 and drew a walk in the
contest ... was the first Cubs third baseman to make the All-Star
team since Vance Law (1988) and the first to play third base since
Bill Madlock (1975) ... teamed up with Derrek Lee to become the
second pair of Cub teammates in franchise history to have back-to-back
30 homer seasons ... Billy Williams and Ron Santo were the first
with 30-homer seasons in 1964 and 1965 ... had 41 multi-hit games
and 23 multi-RBI contests ... was named the NL Player of the Week
for the week ending July 24 after hitting .467 with 6 homers and
11 RBI ... had a season-high 12-game hitting streak from June
13-25, batting .435 (20-46) with 4 doubles, 5 homers and 16 RBI
over the stretch ... tied a career high by knocking in 3 doubles
April 10 ... recorded his 12th career multi-homer game June 14
vs. Florida, hitting a 2-run homer off Josh Beckett and adding
a 2-run blast off Travis Smith ... also had a 2-homer game July
19 at Cincinnati, going 3-for-4 with a double and a pair of home
runs ... drove in a season-high 5 runs in the contest ... hit
a first-inning grand slam off Jose Contreras on June 25 at U.S.
Cellular Field, putting the Cubs up 4-0 in a 6-2 win ... it was
his fifth-career bases-loaded roundtripper ... hit game-winning
homers May 13 in Washington and June 21 in Milwaukee ... strained
his quadriceps in the first inning August 24 running out a ground
ball ... would not see action for the remainder of the season.
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