# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-castillo-q6149709
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:38:29.983Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-castillo-q6149709"
name: "José Castillo"
slug: "jose-castillo-q6149709"
description: "José Castillo Rondón was a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, and Houston Astros. He also played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama BayStars and Chiba Lotte Marines, and in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions. He was killed in a car crash alongside Luis Valbuena in 2018 in Venezuela, caused by bandits in an attempted robbery."
tagline: "Venezuelan baseball player (1981–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/20100403%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A8%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1981-03-19"
deathDate: "2018-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.14
  momentum:             0.8145240431795879
  historical:           4.679344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "چوس كاستيلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Castillo_(infielder)"
    title: "José Castillo (infielder)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Castillo_(beisbolista)"
    title: "José Castillo (beisbolista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A8_(%E5%86%85%E9%87%8E%E6%89%8B)"
    title: "ホセ・カスティーヨ (内野手)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Castillo_(infielder)"
    title: "José Castillo (infielder)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6149709"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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