Ivanon Coffie

Ivanon Angelino Coffie (, born 16 May 1977 ) is a Curaçaoan former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles during the 2000 season, appearing in 23 games. He played for the Netherlands national team in international tournaments.

Playing career Coffie signed with the Orioles on July 28, 1995 as an international free agent. He made his professional debut in the Gulf Coast League in 1996, batting .218 leading shortstops in fielding percentage. A shoulder injury ended his 1997 season in August. With the Frederick Keys in 1998, he was named a Carolina League All-Star and won the league's home run derby. He was added to the Orioles' 40-man roster before spring training in 1999, but hit .183 with the Double-A Bowie Baysox before being sent down to Frederick.

Coffie began the 2000 season with Bowie and was named the Eastern League Player of the Week the opening week of the season. He was called up to the Orioles on July 15, making his MLB debut that day as a pinch runner. He was the fifth player from Curaçao to play in the majors. He got his first MLB hit the next day, a single off Ricky Bones of the Florida Marlins. Coffie was sent down to Triple-A on August 11, returning to the majors as a September call-up. He batted .217 with 6 RBI and one stolen base in his lone major league season. After the season, he played for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League. He played one more season in the Orioles farm system, missing almost three months with a broken right index finger. Baltimore traded him to the Chicago Cubs in November 2001. He also played for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the Atlantic League in 2008. Then, he played in the Italian Baseball League, with Rimini in 2009 and Grosseto in 2010. He was named the most valuable player of the 2005 European Baseball Championship after slugging 8 home runs in 9 games. He played in the 2005 Baseball World Cup and 2006 World Baseball Classic, where he went 2-for-12 in three games and committed an error during Shairon Martis's no-hitter against Panama. He was on the Dutch team that finished second in the 2006 Intercontinental Cup. He then played for the Dutch in the 2007 World Port Tournament, batting .125 in 8 games.

Personal life Coffie graduated from high school in Curaçao in 1995.