Francisco Miguel "Paquito" Lindor (born November 14, 1993), is a Puerto Rican professional baseball shortstop for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut during the 2015 season. On November 2016, he became the first Puerto Rican shortstop to win the Gold Glove Award, doing so playing for the Cleveland Indians in the American League.

Lindor was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico on November 14, 1993, the third of four children. Lindor began playing baseball at a young age, assisted by his father, who would hit him ground balls from the top of a hill while the younger Lindor stood partway down the slope, attempting to field them. Lindor moved to Florida at the age of 12, with his father, stepmother and youngest sibling. After he signed with the Cleveland Indians in August 2011, his family joined him in Florida.

Lindor attended Montverde Academy in Montverde, Florida. The school's baseball facility was named after him in 2013. He was named to the USA Today All-USA high school baseball team. The Indians drafted Lindor in the first round (eighth overall) of the 2011 MLB Draft. He had full-ride scholarship offer in place with the Florida State Seminoles baseball team, but chose to sign with the Indians for $2.9 million in August. In September, Lindor was drafted by the Indios de Mayagüez in the second round of the Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente's (LBPRC) first year draft. However, he has been unable to play there due to Cleveland's intervention. On May 7, 2014, the Indios de Mayagüez traded Lindor's LBPRC player rights to the Gigantes de Carolina in exchange for Carlos Correa. However, only two weeks later the Cangrejeros de Santurce signed him by exploiting a legal loophole declaring that any player that has not been officially contracted within three years after being drafted is considered a free agent.

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