Martín Maldonado
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1986) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Martín Benjamín Maldonado (born August 16, 1986) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, and Chicago Cubs.
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Chicago White Sox – No. 15 | |||||||||||||||
Catcher | |||||||||||||||
Born: (1986-08-16) August 16, 1986 (age 37) Naguabo, Puerto Rico[1] | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
September 3, 2011, for the Milwaukee Brewers | |||||||||||||||
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Batting average | .205 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 112 | ||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 364 | ||||||||||||||
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The Angels selected Maldonado in the 27th round of the 2004 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2011 as a member of the Brewers. In 2017, he both won a Gold Glove and a Fielding Bible Award. The New York Times described him in October 2021, following a season in which Maldonado batted .172, as “arguably the worst hitter in baseball,” and Sports Illustrated wrote that "he quite possibly could be the worst-hitting everyday player in MLB history", although he has also been cited as a key factor in the success of the Astro pitching staff.[2][3]
As a member of the Astros, Maldonado has been the backstop for two American League (AL) pennant-winning teams, which included a World Series championship in 2022. He is one of two catchers in Astros' franchise history to catch multiple no-hitters: the first in 2019, the second in 2022, and the third August 1, 2023. He caught one complete game no-hitter and two combined no-hitters, and he became the first man in major league history to catch multiple combined no-hitters.[4]