Emmanuel Garcia was born on March 4,1986 in Montreal, Quebec and is a Canadian former baseball player.
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Emmanuel Garcia played six years in the minor leagues through 2010, and represented Canada at the Baseball World Cup and the Summer Olympics.
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Emmanuel Garcia played in 2005 with the GCL Mets and surprised the league by hitting.
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Emmanuel Garcia led the Gulf Coast League in runs, on-base percentage and hits.
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Emmanuel Garcia was third in the GCL in average behind Perez and Francisco Guzman, two points ahead of Matt Kutler.
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Emmanuel Garcia led Appalachian League shortstops with 167 assists and was third in the Appy League in steals.
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Emmanuel Garcia stole 37 bases in 47 tries and split time between second base and shortstop.
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Emmanuel Garcia spent the rest of the winter with the Waikiki BeachBoys, batting.
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Emmanuel Garcia played for Canada in the 2008 Final Olympic Qualification Tournament and was their shortstop as they finished first, earning a spot in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Emmanuel Garcia struggled at the plate in the field and at the plate in the qualifiers, hitting.
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Emmanuel Garcia scored the winning run in their 10-inning victory over the German national team, reaching via error and coming home on a bases-loaded walk by Emerson Frostad.
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Emmanuel Garcia was a late addition to Canada for the 2008 Olympics, replacing Pete Orr after Orr was called up to the majors.
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On June 2,2010 The New York Mets sent an official letter from Major League Baseball informing Emmanuel Garcia he tested positive for high levels of human chorionic gonadotropin, which is illicitly used after an anabolic steroid cycle to jump-start the body's production of testosterone.
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Emmanuel Garcia was diagnosed with testicular cancer seminoma which caused Emmanuel Garcia's test to be positive.
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Emmanuel Garcia underwent surgery on June 23,2010 at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center removing his right testicle.
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