Known widely for his unique combination of speed and power, Samuel was inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame, in 2010.

[3] During his majors career, Samuel collected 1,578 hits, 396 stolen bases, and also reached double figures in home runs nine times.

[4] He also played two and a half seasons both for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers, spent a year with the Cincinnati Reds, had two brief stints with the Kansas City Royals, and provided three years of good services for the Toronto Blue Jays, pinch-hitting, serving as DH, and playing at first base, second, third, left field and right.

He managed the Double-A Binghamton Mets for the 2006 season, and was named the third base coach for the Baltimore Orioles on October 31, 2006,[6] where he remained through the first part of 2010.

[15] Beyond this, the Orioles showed little tangible improvement as they went 17–34 under Samuel,[16] whose stint ended on August 1 with a 5–4 loss at Kauffman Stadium, the third straight defeat to the Kansas City Royals.

[18] After declining an offer to return to his old third-base coaching job, Samuel accepted a position elsewhere in the organization as an evaluator for its Dominican Republic academy for the remainder of that season.