FREE: 1989 Modesto A's Joel Chimelis autograph card

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Autographed in black Sharpie.
Condition issue - has ink smudges on back.

Joel Chimelis (born July 27, 1967) is a minor league baseball hitting coach for the Syracuse Mets and a former professional baseball infielder. Although he never played in Major League Baseball, he briefly was called up to the major league roster of the San Francisco Giants in June 1995. He also played one season in the CPBL in 1997, and one season in the Korea Baseball Organization in 1998. In all, Chimelis played in baseball's minor leagues for 13 years.

In 2004 and 2005, Chimelis was the hitting coach for the Single-A Savannah Sand Gnats minor league team in the Washington Nationals organization.

In January 2006, the Houston Astros announced that Chimelis would become the hitting coach for the Tri-City ValleyCats, who play a short season in the New York–Penn League. Chimelis continued in that role through the 2010 season.

In 2011, Chimelis served as the hitting coach for the Astros' Class A Lexington Legends team. In 2012, Chimelis served as the hitting coach for the Astros' Class AA Corpus Christi Hooks team., and then served as the hitting coach for the Quad Cities River Bandits, the Astros' low-A affiliate in the Midwest League. Chimelis was the hitting coach for the Las Vegas 51s of the New York Mets organization for the 2018 season and continued his role with the Mets’ AAA team when it moved to Syracuse in 2019.