<Tr> <Th_colspan="3"> Baseball World Cup </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> 2007 Taipei </Td> <Td> Team </Td> </Tr> <P> Albertín Aroldis Chapman de la Cruz (Spanish: (aˈɾoldis ˈtʃapman); born February 28, 1988) is a Cuban - American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs and in the Cuban National Series for Holguín . Chapman bats and throws left - handed, and is nicknamed the Cuban Missile or the Cuban Flame Thrower </P> <P> Chapman pitched for Holguín domestically and internationally for the Cuban national baseball team . He defected from Cuba in 2009 and signed a contract with the Reds in 2010 . Chapman made his MLB debut that season . He won the MLB Delivery Man of the Month Award as the best relief pitcher for July 2012, and has been named to four straight National League All - Star teams from 2012 to 2015 . The Reds traded Chapman to the Yankees after the 2015 season, and the Yankees traded Chapman to the Cubs during the 2016 season . He signed with the Yankees after the 2016 season . </P>

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