# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andy-benes
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:16:53.976Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andy-benes"
name: "Andy Benes"
slug: "andy-benes"
description: "Andrew Charles Benes is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most prominently as a member of the San Diego Padres, who selected Benes as the first overall pick in the 1988 MLB draft. With the Padres, he was named to the National League (NL) All-Star team in 1993 and led the league in strikeouts in 1994. He also played for the Seattle Mariners, St. Louis Cardinals, and Arizona Diamondbacks."
tagline: "American baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andy_Benes_(crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1967-08-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.56
  momentum:             1.265060240963855
  historical:           4.857492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "اندى بينيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Benes"
    title: "Andy Benes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "اندی بنس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9"
    title: "アンディ・ベネス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E8%BF%AA%C2%B7%E8%B2%9D%E5%85%A7%E6%96%AF"
    title: "安迪·貝內斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4760427"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump