Career
He previously played for the Hanshin Tigers. 2008 was his first year playing in Nippon Pro Baseball with the Tigers. He wears #52 and is a third baseman.
He bats and throws right-handed.
Bardiris was originally drafted by the New York Mets out of high school at the age of seventeen. He started off at the Rookie-Class Venezuelan Summer League and played there until 2002, and missed the entire 2001 season due to an injury.
He was called up to Single-A Brooklyn in 2002, then to Double-A Binghamton in 2004. He played for the Texas Rangers organization in 2006.
He was acquired by the New York Yankees in 2007 and put on their 40-man roster in September 2007.
Baldiris left the Yankees and signed to play in NPB in 2008. There, the Hanshin Tigers selected him to be on the team"s #1 roster. He struggled the first couple of weeks, but as the season went on, his batting average rose.
On July 5, 2009 in a game against the Yakult Swallows, Baldiris hit his first NPB Home Run.
lieutenant was a lead off home run off Masanori Ishikawa. He would later be chosen as one of the "Heroes" of that game along with the Tigers starting pitcher, Yasutomo Kubo.