# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yordano-ventura
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:25:54.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yordano-ventura"
name: "Yordano Ventura"
slug: "yordano-ventura"
description: "Yordano Ventura Hernández was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Ventura made his MLB debut on September 17, 2013. Known as a power pitcher, his fastball topped out at 102 miles per hour (164 km/h) in his career. He won the 2015 World Series with the Royals. On January 22, 2017, Ventura was killed in a car crash in the Dominican Republic."
tagline: "Dominican Republic baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yordano_Ventura_talks_to_reporters_on_-WSMediaDay._(22265741414).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1991-06-03"
deathDate: "2017-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.458948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/YordanoVentura"
    handle:    "YordanoVentura"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/yordanoventurahernandez/"
    handle:    "yordanoventurahernandez"
sources:
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    title: "尤丹諾·范圖拉"
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    title: "ياوردانو ڤينتورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordano_Ventura"
    title: "Yordano Ventura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordano_Ventura"
    title: "Yordano Ventura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordano_Ventura"
    title: "Yordano Ventura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%A9"
    title: "ヨーダノ・ベンチュラ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "요르다노 벤투라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yordano_Ventura"
    title: "Yordano Ventura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump