# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bert-blyleven
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:59:50.911Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bert-blyleven"
name: "Bert Blyleven"
slug: "bert-blyleven"
description: "Rik Aalbert Blyleven is a Dutch-American former professional baseball pitcher and color commentator. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1970 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2020 was a color commentator for Minnesota Twins television broadcasts. Blyleven recorded 3,701 career strikeouts, the fifth-most in MLB history. He won 287 games, 27th-most all-time, and pitched 4,970 innings, 14th-most all-time. A renowned curveball pitcher, Blyleven was a two-time All-Star and World Series champion. In 2011, Blyleven was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame."
tagline: "Major League Baseball player and broadcaster"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bert_Blyleven.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1951-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump