# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernando-valenzuela-q1131057
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:40:26.642Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fernando-valenzuela-q1131057"
name: "Fernando Valenzuela"
slug: "fernando-valenzuela-q1131057"
description: "Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea, nicknamed \"El Toro\", was a Mexican professional baseball pitcher. Valenzuela played 17 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons, from 1980 to 1997. He played for six MLB teams, most prominently with the Los Angeles Dodgers, who signed him in 1979 and gave him his MLB debut in 1980. Valenzuela batted and threw left-handed, with an unorthodox windup. He was one of a small number of pitchers who regularly threw a screwball in the modern era."
tagline: "Mexican-American baseball player (1960–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fernando_Valenzuela_in_bullpen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "MX"
birthDate: "1960-11-01"
deathDate: "2024-10-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4676909173068234
  historical:           11.98386933333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Fernando Valenzuela"
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    title: "Fernando Valenzuela"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump