- Miguel Montero
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Miguel Montero 
Arizona Diamondbacks — No. 26 Catcher Born: July 9, 1983
Caracas, VenezuelaBats: Left Throws: Right MLB debut September 6, 2006 for the Arizona Diamondbacks Career statistics
(through 2011 season)Batting average .268 Home runs 50 Runs batted in 250 Teams - Arizona Diamondbacks (2006–present)
Career highlights and awards - All-Star (2011)
Miguel Angel Montero (born July 9, 1983, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Baseball career
Arizona Diamondbacks
Signed as an undrafted free agent in 2001, Montero showed an ability to hit for average and power in the minors, hitting .307 with 43 home runs in 2005 and 2006.
He made his major league debut on September 6, 2006, against the Florida Marlins. Montero would play in a total of 6 games that year batting a .250 batting average.
In 2007 and 2008, Montero platooned with Chris Snyder at the catching position for the D-Backs and batted a .224 batting average with 10 home runs in 2007 and batting .255 with 5 home runs in 2008.
Montero began the 2009 season slowly, hitting just three home runs and having just a .200 batting average through the first two months. However, when Snyder was put on the disabled list in June, Montero's playing time increased markedly and finished the season with a career high .294 batting average.
Montero caught Edwin Jackson's no-hitter on June 25, 2010.[1] He would finish the season with a .266 batting average and 9 home runs.
In 2011, After hitting a .272 batting average with 10 home runs and 45 RBI Montero was selected to his first All-Star Game.
References
- ^ "Retrosheet Boxscore: Arizona Diamondbacks 1, Tampa Bay Rays 0". Retrosheet.org. June 25, 2010. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2010/B06250TBA2010.htm. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Arizona Diamondbacks current roster Active roster 2 Aaron Hill | 4 Collin Cowgill | 5 Cole Gillespie | 6 Stephen Drew | 8 Gerardo Parra | 10 Justin Upton | 12 Henry Blanco | 14 Ryan Roberts | 15 Micah Owings | 16 John McDonald | 18 Willie Bloomquist | 24 Chris Young | 26 Miguel Montero | 27 Geoff Blum | 29 Brad Ziegler | 30 David Hernandez | 31 Ian Kennedy | 34 Joe Saunders | 36 Wade Miley | 38 Sam Demel | 39 Bryan Shaw | 40 J. J. Putz | 41 Daniel Hudson | 43 Zach Kroenke | 44 Paul Goldschmidt | 46 David Winfree | 47 Joe Paterson | 48 Ryan Cook | 49 Mike Zagurski | 54 Barry Enright | 55 Josh Collmenter | 56 Jarrod Parker | -- Trevor Bauer | -- Yonata Ortega | -- Konrad Schmidt
Coaching Staff Manager 23 Kirk Gibson | Bench Coach 3 Alan Trammell | 1st Base Coach 7 Eric Young | 3rd Base Coach 9 Matt Williams | Hitting Coach 25 Don Baylor | Pitching Coach 50 Charles Nagy | Bullpen Coach 53 Glenn Sherlock | Bullpen Catcher 82 Jeff Motuzas | Coach 80 Wilson Valera
Categories:- 1983 births
- Living people
- People from Caracas
- Major League Baseball catchers
- Major League Baseball players from Venezuela
- Missoula Osprey players
- South Bend Silver Hawks players
- Lancaster JetHawks players
- Tennessee Smokies players
- Tucson Sidewinders players
- Reno Aces players
- Arizona Diamondbacks players
- All-Star Futures Game players
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