Manny Ramírez

. In April 11, 2005 Phelps was a guest judge in the Miss USA beauty pageant. During the 2005 season, Manny Ramirez is the 3rd highest paid player at $19,906,820.00. Phelps cannot swim for the team, however, because his endorsement deal with Speedo has caused him to forfeit his amateur status. He is one of only 39 other baseball players to ever hit this many home runs. Phelps is also serving as a volunteer assistant coach and is taking classes, intending to major in sports marketing or sports management. On May 16th, Manny Ramirez hit a major career milestone by hitting his 400th home run off Gil Meche of the Seattle Mariners. Phelps is following his longtime coach, Bob Bowman, who left Phelps' previous swim team to become the head swimming coach of the University of Michigan varsity swim team.

. As of 2005, Phelps is attending University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His numbers were capped off by being named the MVP of the World Series as he led the Red Sox to their first title since 1918. He was also fined $250, required to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving meeting, and to give speeches to students at three high schools by June 1, 2005. Along with Derek Jeter (a single), Ichiro Suzuki (a double) and Iván Rodríguez (a triple), Ramírez made history as the American League became the first All-Star team to hit for the cycle during the same inning. On December 29, 2004, Phelps was sentenced to 18 months of probation. In the All-Star Game, facing Roger Clemens in the top of the first inning, Ramírez knocked out a two-run home run giving his teammates an immediate 3-0 lead. Phelps pled guilty to driving while impaired, avoiding charges of driving under the influence, underage drinking and failure to stop at a stop sign.

Also along with Ortiz, Ramirez hit back-to-back home runs six times, tying the major league single season set by Hank Greenberg and Rudy York (Detroit Tigers) and Frank Thomas and Magglio Ordóñez (Chicago White Sox). His specific blood alcohol content was not released because of police policy, although in the state of Maryland, the legal limit is .08. In addition, Ramírez and David Ortiz became the first pair of American League teammates to hit 40 home runs, have 100 RBI, and bat .300 since the Yankees Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931, and the first Red Sox duo with 40 homers since Tony Armas and Jim Rice (1984). Phelps, who was 19 at the time (21 is the legal drinking age in the U.S.), was arrested and cited for driving under the influence of alcohol. He led the American League in home runs (43), slugging average (.613) and OPS (1.009); finished 3rd in RBI (130), 6th in on base percentage (.397), 8th in base on balls (82), 10th in runs (108), and posted a .308 batting average. On November 4, 2004, Phelps was arrested in Salisbury, Maryland for driving under the influence after being pulled over for running a stop sign in his 2005 Land Rover with two friends. Coupled with impressive play on the field, this absolved Ramírez in the eyes of many Boston fans and sportswriters. Phelps graduated Towson High School in the Spring of 2004.

He displayed a good attitude and an enthusiasm for playing, two qualities his critics had charged that he lacked. See also: Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2004, nevertheless, Ramírez silenced his critics. NBC Olympic coverage of the 2004 games always showed him listening to his iPod with Bose headphones before competing. All 29 other teams passed, due to the length and costs of his contract. This gave Phelps an automatic entry into the medley relay, but as he was exhausted from the many races he had competed in over the preceding week, he gave up the butterfly leg to Crocker. The American medley team went on to win the event in world record time, and since he had raced in a preliminary heat of the medley relay, Phelps was also awarded a gold medal along with the team members that competed in the final. After the season, the Red Sox put him on irrevocable waivers, meaning he was had but for the asking. Traditionally, the olympian who places highest in a individual event will be automatically given the corresponding leg of the 4x100m medley relay.

Some Red Sox fans criticized the outfielder, saying he should have played despite the ailment. When it was learned that he had been seen in a hotel lobby with close friend, Yankees infielder Enrique Wilson, the controversy grew, causing Boston manager Grady Little to bench Ramírez for one game. On August 20, in the 100m butterfly final, Phelps defeated American teammate Ian Crocker (who holds the world record in the event) by just 0.04 seconds. In the summer of 2003, Ramírez found himself as the latest victim of the Boston Sports Media's thirst for blood when he missed several games with pharyngitis. On August 14, 2004, he won his first Olympic gold, in the 400m individual medley, setting another new world record (4:08.26). He is aggressive playing balls off the Green Monster and holding runners to singles. The episode only made it yet more clear that Phelps's participation in at least some of the relay events would depend solely on his performance in the individual events. Ramirez is an adept left fielder in Fenway Park, as he's learned to play all the corners and angles. They claimed that Phelps is not a top swimmer in the event and his presence could compromise the US team's performance in the name of what was called a "media circus" for Phelps to win eight gold medals.

He still has trouble at times with footwork, his range is limited, but his arm is fairly strong, he has soft hands, and his hard work improves every aspect of his game. 4x100m freestyle team, publicly criticized the possibility of allowing Phelps to swim in the event. As a fielder, he's not going for any Gold Glove Awards. and Jason Lezak, both of whom were aiming to be on the U.S. He has good power that way and seems content to go with the pitch, but he is not afraid to take the occasional free walk. Only a few days before the beginning of the swimming competition in Athens 2004, however, Gary Hall Jr. He does most of his hitting from center field to the right field line. Had he won seven golds, he would have been eligible for a US $1 million bonus from his sponsor, Speedo.

He combines power, contact and patience at the plate, against left-handed pitchers and righties equally well, but he still doesn't pull the ball very often for a power hitter. However, he did win eight medals in one Olympics, a feat only achieved by Aleksandr Dityatin, a gymnast, in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Arguably, Ramírez is the best all-around righthanded hitter in the American League. As his 4x100m freestyle relay team only won a bronze medal, and he personally placed for bronze in the 200m freestyle, he fell just short of that record. He has totaled 390 home runs and 1270 RBI in 1535 games. Phelps had the chance to break that record in 2004 by competing in eight swimming events: the 200m freestyle, the 100m butterfly, the 200m butterfly, the 100m backstroke, the 200m backstroke, the 200m individual medley, the 400m individual medley, the 4x100m freestyle relay and the 4x100m medley relay. Through the 2004 season, Ramírez is a career .316 hitter, with a .397 on base percentage and a .613 slugging average. Phelps' dominance brought comparisons to Puerto Rican-American swimmer, Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Summer Olympics, a world record.

Though originally from the Dominican Republic, he grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City a short walk away from Yankee Stadium. He won the 2003 Sullivan Award. He bats and throws right-handed. trials for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Previously, Ramírez played with the Cleveland Indians (1993-2000). Then on July 7, 2004, Phelps broke his own world record again in the 400m individual medley (4:08.41) during the U.S. Manny Ramírez [rah-MEE-rez], born Manuel Arístides Ramírez (May 30, 1972 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), is an outfielder in Major League Baseball who plays for the Boston Red Sox (since 2001). In 2003, Phelps broke his own world record in the 400m individual medley (4:09.09) and in June, he broke the world record in the 200m individual medley (1:56.04).

He was featured on the cover of the Electronic Arts Sports electronic game MVP Baseball 2005 [1] (http://www.easports.com/games/mvp2005/home.jsp). At the 2002 Summer Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Phelps also broke the world record for the 400m individual medley and set American marks in the 100m butterfly and the 200m individual medley. Ramírez appealed to fans by joining the 2004 Red Sox tradition of growing a unique hairstyle, maintaining a solid set of dreadlocks throughout the season. Five months after Sydney, Phelps broke the world record in the 200m butterfly and then broke his own record again at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan (1:54.58). His 165 RBI total in 1999 was the highest by any player since Jimmie Foxx in 1938; and made him the first player to have more RBI's than games played in a season since Ted Williams in 1949. While he did not win a medal at the 2000 Olympics, Phelps proceeded to make a name for himself in swimming shortly thereafter. He made the All-Star team four times, and hit 127 homers and 432 RBI in 415 games over last three seasons. Michael Phelps appeared at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic Games in 68 years at the age of 15.

1993-2000: Ramírez collected 236 home runs and 804 RBI in 967 games, including a career-high 45 home runs in 1998, and a team-record career-high 165 RBI in 1999, when he hit .333 with 44 homers and 131 runs (also a career-high). Michael Phelps (born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer and world-record holder (as of 2004). 129 intentional walks - 12th and 56th. 1.010 OPS - 3rd and 9th. 785 extra base hits - 18th and 89th.

.599 slugging average - 3rd and 8th. .411 on base percentage - 9th and 35th. 1270 RBI - 12th and 98th. 390 home runs - 12th and 43rd.

.316 batting average - 4th and 69th. Career rankings among active players and on the All-Time lists