
Martín Maldonado
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1986)

Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1986)
Martín Benjamín Maldonado (born August 16, 1986) is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball catcher who currently serves as the quality control coach for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for 15 seasons. During those 15 seasons, he played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and San Diego Padres. 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. As a member of the Astros, Maldonado was...
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