Yasiel Puig
Cuban baseball player
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| November 14 2024 | Yasiel Puig announced on social media that he had signed with the Kiwoom Heroes of the KBO League. |
| March 16 2024 | Yasiel Puig signed with El Águila de Veracruz of the Mexican League. |
| 2022 | Puig played 126 games with the Kiwoom Heroes, achieving a batting average of .277 with 21 home runs and 73 RBI. |
| 2022 | Yasiel Puig signed with the Kiwoom Heroes for the 2022 season. |
| November 2022 | Later in November, Puig changed his plea to not guilty regarding the charges related to illegal sports betting. |
| November 2022 | Puig pled guilty to lying to federal law enforcement officers regarding bets placed with an illegal sports betting operation, facing up to five years in prison. |
| 2021 | Puig announced that he had settled his sexual assault lawsuit related to the 2018 allegations and expressed a desire to return to MLB in 2022. |
| 2021 | After playing 62 games with El Águila de Veracruz, Puig was named the Defensive Player of the Year following the season. |
| 2021 | Yasiel Puig returned to play for Toros del Este after spending the summer with El Águila de Veracruz in the Mexican League. |
| December 2021 | Puig reportedly settled a lawsuit from two women who claimed he sexually assaulted them in January 2017. |
| December 8 2021 | Yasiel Puig signed a one-year, $1 million contract with the Kiwoom Heroes of the KBO League. |
| April 21 2021 | Yasiel Puig announced via Twitter that he had signed with El Águila de Veracruz of the Mexican League. |
| 2020 | Yasiel Puig played with Toros del Este in the Dominican Professional Baseball League during the winter. |
| July 17 2020 | Yasiel Puig tested positive for COVID-19, which resulted in the cancellation of a deal he was expected to sign with the Atlanta Braves. |
| 2019 | The Los Angeles Dodgers traded Yasiel Puig to the Cincinnati Reds before the 2019 season. |
| August 2019 | On an off-day in New York, Puig paid for a helicopter trip to Camp Simcha, a day camp for children with cancer, where he spent four hours and expressed that it was one of the best days of his life. |
| August 2019 | Yasiel Puig was suspended for three games due to his role in a brawl during a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates while he was playing for the Reds. |
| August 14 2019 | Yasiel Puig became a United States citizen. |
| August 12 2019 | Yasiel Puig began serving his three-game suspension against the Boston Red Sox. |
| July 31 2019 | Yasiel Puig was officially traded to the Cleveland Indians as part of a three-team transaction that also involved the Cincinnati Reds and San Diego Padres. |
| July 30 2019 | Yasiel Puig was involved in another bench-clearing brawl in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, which occurred in the ninth inning of an 11–4 loss at Great American Ball Park, shortly after news broke of his impending trade to the Cleveland Indians. |
| May 2019 | Puig treated a young fan, who was about to undergo his 40th surgery due to hydrocephalus, and his family to a Cincinnati Reds game. |
| April 7 2019 | In a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Yasiel Puig was involved in a bench-clearing brawl during the fourth inning of a 7–5 loss, leading to his ejection and a subsequent two-game suspension for extending hostilities. |
| 2018 | In Game 7 of the NLCS, Yasiel Puig hit a three-run home run to extend the Dodger lead to 5–1 against the Milwaukee Brewers, contributing to the Dodgers winning their second straight pennant. |
| 2018 | In Game 4 of the 2018 World Series, Yasiel Puig hit a three-run home run off Eduardo Rodriguez to increase the Dodger lead to 4–0, although the Red Sox won the series in five games. |
| December 21 2018 | Yasiel Puig was traded from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Cincinnati Reds, along with Matt Kemp, Alex Wood, Kyle Farmer, and cash considerations, in exchange for Homer Bailey, Jeter Downs, and Josiah Gray. |
| October 2018 | Puig was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a Staples Center bathroom during a Los Angeles Lakers game. |
| August 14 2018 | Yasiel Puig got into an altercation with Nick Hundley at home plate, resulting in a bench-clearing brawl and both players being ejected from the game. |
| August 11 2018 | Yasiel Puig hit his 100th career home run off Kyle Freeland of the Colorado Rockies. |
| April 28 2018 | Yasiel Puig left a game due to left hip soreness after making a catch against the outfield wall, and was placed on the 10-day disabled list the following day. |
| April 19 2018 | Puig and the Wild Horse Children's Foundation announced a collaboration with the City of San Fernando, California to renovate Pioneer Park and refurbish a long-abandoned house on-site. |
| February 7 2018 | Wasserman Media Group announced that it had terminated its professional relationship with Yasiel Puig. |
| 2017 | During the 2017 MLB season, Puig batted .263/.346/.487, hit a career-high 28 home runs, and had 74 RBI, along with 15 stolen bases. |
| 2017 | During the 2017 World Series against the Houston Astros, Puig had four hits in 27 at-bats for a .148 average, including two home runs, as the Dodgers lost the series in seven games. |
| 2017 | Yasiel Puig received the Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award for his exceptional play in right field during 2017. |
| 2017 | In the 2017 MLB postseason, Puig had a strong showing, hitting .455 in the NLDS and .389 with a home run in the NLCS. |
| June 13 2017 | Yasiel Puig made an obscene gesture at Cleveland Indians fans at Progressive Field after hitting a home run, which led to a one-game suspension that was later rescinded after he appealed. |
| 2016 | Yasiel Puig created the Wild Horse Children's Foundation, named after the nickname given to him by Vin Scully. The foundation focuses on improving the lives of children and families in underserved communities through various programs. |
| 2016 | Yasiel Puig batted .211 (4-for-19) with a run scored in 10 postseason games during the 2016 MLB Playoffs. |
| September 2016 | Yasiel Puig rejoined the Los Angeles Dodgers after his optioning to AAA and finished the season with a batting line of .263/.323/.416 in 104 games, hitting 11 home runs and 45 RBIs. |
| August 2 2016 | Yasiel Puig was optioned to the AAA Oklahoma City Dodgers when the Los Angeles Dodgers acquired Josh Reddick in a trade for the right field position. |
| October 3 2015 | Puig returned to the field, appearing in the final two games of the season for the Dodgers. |
| August 18 2015 | Puig injured his right hamstring and was placed on the 15-day disabled list nine days later. |
| June 2015 | Puig rejoined the Dodgers roster after recovering from his left hamstring injury. |
| April 26 2015 | Yasiel Puig was placed on the 15-day disabled list for the first time in his major league career due to left hamstring issues. |
| 2014 | Yasiel Puig finished the 2014 regular season with 16 home runs, 69 RBI, and a .296 batting average. During the 2014 NLDS against the St. Louis Cardinals, he struck out seven consecutive times over the first three games but later hit a triple and scored the Dodgers' only run in a 3–1 loss. |
| 2014 | Yasiel Puig was voted as a starter for the 2014 All-Star Game, becoming the youngest Dodger starter for an All-Star game since Steve Sax in 1982. He also participated in the Home Run Derby during the All-Star festivities. |
| 2014 | After the 2014 season, Yasiel Puig was selected to travel to Japan as part of a team of MLB All-Stars competing against All-Stars from Nippon Professional Baseball in the 2014 Major League Baseball Japan All-Star Series. |
| July 25 2014 | In a game against the San Diego Padres, Yasiel Puig went 4-for-5 with a career-high four extra-base hits, tying the Dodgers' single-game record with three triples. This performance helped his team tie the club's single-game triples record of five, which had been set in 1902 and 1921. |
| May 17 2014 | Yasiel Puig achieved a record for the longest streak by a Dodger with eight consecutive games featuring at least one extra-base hit and at least one RBI, surpassing previous records held by Pedro Guerrero, Duke Snider, and Howie Schultz. He was named the NL Player of the Week and the National League Player of the Month for May with a batting average of .398, eight home runs, and 25 RBI. |
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