Alfonso Soriano is an American baseball player. He plays in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs. He plays as a left fielder, but he is known to have played primarily as a second baseman for his previous two teams, the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers.

Soriano’s career is filled with achievements, and we’ll just make a list of his most notable highlights:

- he has received the Silver Slugger Award four times: in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

- he was selected to the All-Star team on seven separate occasions: in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2007 and 2005.

- He led the American League in runs, in 2002. Also that year he managed to lead the American League in hits. And, again in 2002, he led the American League in stolen bases.

- He joined the famous 40-40 club in 2006.

Sorianto began his professional career in Japan, at the Hiroshima Toyo Carp team, back in 1997. He appeared in nine games, and after a negotiation with the team for a salary increase failed, for his 1998 season he opted to leave Japan and head to the United States. He stared to play for the New York Yankees in 1998, as an infield player. He stayed with the famous Yankees team for five seasons, and he received a lot of attention from fans and critics, after lots of achievements in Yankees’ games. In 2001, he was close to winning Rookie of the Year award, but finished third. In 2002, he led the American League with bats, hits and lots of other statistics.

Starting with the 2004-2005 season, he signed with the Texas Rangers, after a multi-million dollar transfer between the team and the Yankees. He started his career at the Rangers with a record, by having six hits out of nine innings. He was the first player for the Texas Rangers to do such an event. The season carried on with no additional significant events, apart from Soriano having been elected to the All-Star game.

In late 2005, he was traded to the Washington Nationals, a team with which he would also play for a short while. Starting in the 2007 season, he signed on an eight year contract with the Chicago Cubs, earning an estimate hundred and thirty six million dollars out of the deal. The contract, which expires in 2014, is the single most expensive deal in the team’s history making him a well known sports celebrity.

Celebrity Scope has discovered that in his private life, Soriano is a charitable person, having donated over two and a half million dollars to his home country in a charity that would help children become baseball players. He also appeared in commercial advertising baseball to young children, and in late 2008 he appeared in a County Courthouse in Indiana in order to give autographs. In 2009, he appeared in a WWE Judgment Day skit, along with Santino Marella and The Miz. After John Cena won the game, he went in the audience and gave Soriano a hug.