Ruben Sierra was the most exciting young player in baseball in the late 1980s. The switch-hitting right fielder from Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico reached the majors with the Texas Rangers at twenty and by 1989 was putting together one of the great seasons in franchise history, leading the American League in RBI with 119 and in triples with 14 while finishing second in MVP voting.

He made four All-Star teams, won a Silver Slugger and a Gold Glove, and had a cannon of an arm that made third base coaches think twice. Across twenty major league seasons he collected 2,152 hits, 306 home runs, and 1,322 RBI for nine different clubs, but the Rangers years are the ones people around here remember, along with a late-career return to Texas in 2000 and 2001.

Sierra was inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame in 2009 and is also a member of the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame. He has managed and coached in Puerto Rico since retiring and remains one of the signature names of Rangers baseball.