Gerónimo Gil (Spanish pronunciation: [xeˈɾonimo ˈxil]; born August 7, 1975) is a Mexican former professional baseball catcher and coach who currently serves as the manager of the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League.
He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2001 to 2007 for the Baltimore Orioles and Colorado Rockies.
He had played in only four games for Mexico City in 1995 when his contract was purchased by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Feb. 15, 1996.
The Sand Gnats came back from seventh place and won the South Atlantic League championship that year.
The next year, he was promoted to the Double-A San Antonio Missions, playing catcher as well as in the outfield and at first base.
The highlights of his career with San Antonio included ranking 4th in batting average and tying for third place in doubles with 17 in 1998, tying for the Missions' team lead with 15 home runs in 1999, and being named the best defensive catcher in the Texas League in 2000.
He hit his first big league homer on April 11, off Tampa Bay Devil Rays pitcher Travis Phelps.
His first multi-homer game was on April 23, both off the Boston Red Sox pitcher Frank Castillo.
An interesting fact about Gil's 2002 season is that of his 12 home runs, 4 were against the Red Sox, the most he hit against any team that year.
In 2003, Gil spent most of the season with Baltimore, but he also played for six weeks with the Triple-A Ottawa Lynx.
While with Ottawa, he had 17 runs batted in, 13 of which he hit in the final 18 games of the minor league season.
He played in 12 games for the O's during the last month of the season, batting .281, and was the only Orioles backup catcher that hit over .170.
Before the start of the season, he was loaned to the Red Devils of the Mexican League where he batted .396 in 75 games and was named to the mid-season All-Star team.
Gil started 2008 playing for the Guerreros de Oaxaca, but after 54 games, he was sent to the Red Devils.
She is from Mexico City and studied hearing and language at Normal de Especializacion University and has two children, Gerónimo and Angelo, both of them with the last names "Gil Ortiz".