Luis Matos
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"Luis David Matos" is a former professional baseball outfielder. He has played in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles between 2000–06 and briefly for the Washington Nationals in late 2006. He most recently played for the Piratas de Campeche in the Mexican League (baseball)/Mexican League He bats and throws right-handed.

Matos is considered to be injury prone, as he has had only 3 seasons with over 300 at bats and one with 400 or more. Some in the Orioles organization felt he never reached his potential except for 2003 when he had 13 home runs, 15 stolen bases and had a batting average of .303. Matos is considered to be a good center fielder, but has an average arm. After losing his position as starting center fielder with the Orioles to Corey Patterson, Matos was designated for assignment on July 6, 2006. He signed with the Nationals as a free agent on July 14, 2006. On August 11, 2006, he was unconditionally released by the Nationals. On January 23, 2007, he signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates, but was released on March 30, 2007. Matos then signed a minor league contract with the New York Mets on August 20, 2007. In 14 games with the Mets Triple-A affiliate, the New Orleans Zephyrs, he batted .204 with 1 home run and 4 RBI.

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We wish that we could do it earlier for Chen because he pitched a heck of a game.

I'm not worried about that, ... We have a lot of guys whose job that is.

He's only been here two or three weeks. I know he's a hustle guy. I have it in my mind he's always going to be there. We need to communicate a little better.

It's pretty bad right now. It's real frustrating to be losing all these games.

That's in the past. He says he wants to stay here. I don't expect him to say he's sorry.

What do you prefer? A guy who's worried about the team and wants it to get better, or a guy who's going to be here six years and get in his pocket $72 million and not care about winning? You can't take it like he doesn't like the Orioles and doesn't want to be here. That's not true.

We just shut it down all of a sudden and started playing bad baseball.

You've got to take it in a positive way. I think he did that because he wanted the team to get better. What do you prefer? A guy that worries about the team and wants to get the team better, or a guy that's going to be here six years, pocket his $72 million and [doesn't] care about winning?

Right now I'm really feeling comfortable at the plate in the last five or six days. When I feel like that, I don't look for a pitch. I look for something around the strike zone or something that I know I can handle.