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Osvaldo Bido

Dominican baseball player (born 1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ119492556 ↗
Source-derived summary

Osvaldo Bido (born October 18, 1995) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics / Athletics, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago White Sox. He made his MLB debut in 2023.

Career

Pittsburgh Pirates

The Pittsburgh Pirates signed Bido as an international free agent on March 14, 2017. He spent his first professional season with the Dominican Summer League Pirates, posting a 1–8 record and 5.33 ERA across 15 contests. In 2018, he made 14 starts for the Low–A West Virginia Black Bears, registering a 4–6 record and 4.18 ERA with 58 strikeouts across 75+1⁄3 innings of work. Bido began the 2019 season with the Single–A Greensboro Grasshoppers, and was promoted to the High–A Bradenton Marauders in July. In 25 combined starts, he accumulated a 12–8 record and 3.32 ERA with 107 strikeouts in 135+2⁄3 innings pitched.

Bido did not play a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the Minor League Baseball season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned to action in 2021, splitting the year between the Double–A Altoona Curve and Triple–A Indianapolis Indians.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Osvaldo Bido” as dominican baseball player (born 1995). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2023, 2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-10-18. The account is most persuasive where Osvaldo, Bido and Dominican can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as dominican baseball player (born 1995). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q119492556. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2023, 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Osvaldo Bido” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.