Carlos Ivan Beltrán ( , bel-trahn, born April 24, 1977, in Manatí, Puerto Rico) is a Major League Baseball outfielder with the New York Mets. Beltran currently has the highest stolen base percentage amongst active players with 250 or more steals.
In his youth, Beltrán excelled in many sports, with volleyball and baseball being his favorites. At his father's urging, he gave up volleyball to concentrate on baseball when he was seventeen. Graduating from Fernando Callejo High School in , the highly-regarded five tool player was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the second round of that year's amateur baseball draft.
Beltrán maintains homes in Port Washington, New York and Manatí.
Carlos Beltrán Martínez de Castro, b. 1956 , is a Mexican multi-keyboard player.
He undertook classical training since his childhood days, and this formative years would influence his later composing outcome. In the early 1970s he was attracted to the sound of progressive rock of bands like Renaissance and Focus, but also to the so-called soft rock produced by performers like America and James Taylor. In 1987 Carlos released his only album to date, the Long Play "Jerico", where he played all instruments, basically keyboards and percussion, whose sound was reminiscent of Klaus Schulze. The album didn't stir any grounds in his native country, but it was critically acclaimed, first in Japan, and then in other progressive quarters of Europe. Growing ever dissatisfied with the rock scene in Mexico, he opted to retire, but not before he distriubuted a home-made tape simply called "Familia Carbajal", where his expanding abilities as composer were evidenced. In 1997 "Jerico" appeared in CD format, making it accessible for a new generation of listeners from around the world.
