Francisco Miguel Lindor Serrano is a Major League Baseball shortstop who plays for the New York Mets (MLB). He was previously with the Cleveland Indians.
Francisco Lindor was born on November 14, 1993, in Caguas, Puerto Rico, as the third of four children to Miguel Angel Lindor and Maria Serrano.
He began playing baseball at a young age, aided by his father, who would hit ground balls to him from the top of a hill while the younger Lindor stood halfway down the slope, attempting to field them.
Lindor moved to Central Florida with his father, stepmother, and youngest sibling when he was 12 years old and enrolled in the Montverde Academy prep school.
Lindor was selected by the Indians in the first round eighth overall of the 2011 MLB draft.
In 2016, he was named to his first All-Star team and won the Gold Glove Award, making him the first Puerto Rican shortstop to do so.
In 2017, he received his first Silver Slugger Award. In 2015, he finished second in the American League Rookie of the Year voting and was named to the 2017 All-WBC Team.
