Juan Carlos Romero (born June 4, 1976 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico) is a Major League Baseball left-handed specialist for the Philadelphia Phillies. He has also played for the Minnesota Twins ( - ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( ), and Boston Red Sox ( ).
Romero played college baseball at the University of Mobile.
Romero was traded by the Twins to the Angels on December 9, 2005, for infielder Alexi Casilla.
On October 6, 2006, the Angels declined his contract option for 2007, making him a free agent. On December 15, he signed a 1-year deal with the Boston Red Sox. bases/2006/12/sox_sign_jc_rom.html" target="_blank">http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2006/12/sox_sign_jc_rom.html However on June 9, 2007, he was designated for assignment, http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070609&content_id=2015496&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos and then released on June 19, 2007. On June 23, 2007 he signed with the Phillies.
Romero was one of the Puerto Rican players to agree to play for Puerto Rico in the 2006 MLB _World Baseball Classic
Romero is particularly well-known for his conflicting strengths and weaknesses as a pitcher, that being his high ratio of strikeouts, low ratio of hits allowed, which are counterbalanced by an extraordinarily large number of walks.
