Major League Baseball player Carlos Pena is a first baseman who plays professional baseball with the Chicago Cubs. Pena signed a one-year contract to play for the Cubs, worth $10 million, on December 7, 2010.http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5902576 Prior to signing with Chicago, Pena had a 2010 season in which he had 64 runs, 95 hits and 158 strikeouts in 484 times at bat. The .196 batting average was the statistically lowest of his career.http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/stats?playerId=4594

Pena made his Major League Baseball debut with the Texas Rangers in 2001 and went on to play for several teams including the Detroit Tigers, Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays. Through the 2010 season, Pena's statistically best season came in 2007 with Tampa Bay when he had a .282 batting average, .411 on-base percentage and tallied 99 runs, 138 hits and 46 home runs between 490 attempts at bat.http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/stats?playerId=4594

Pena was chosen in the first round of the 1998 MLB Draft by the Texas Rangers. Pena made his debut for the Rangers in 2001, but was traded to the Oakland Athletics after the season and then again to the Detroit Tigers in the middle of the 2002 season. Pena was the Tigers everyday first baseman from 2003 to 2005 but never finished any of the three seasons with over a .250 batting average. In 2007, he signed with the Devil Rays and had his statistically best season, clubbing 46 home runs, 121 RBIs, with a .282 average.http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/penaca01.shtml