Caleb Joseph
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Joseph with the Baltimore Orioles
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| Baltimore Orioles – No. 36 | |||
| Catcher | |||
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Born: June 18, 1986 Nashville, Tennessee |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 7, 2014, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Batting average | .213 | ||
| Home runs | 20 | ||
| Runs batted in | 77 | ||
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Caleb Martin Joseph (born June 18, 1986) is an American professional baseball catcher for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB).
He made his MLB debut in 2014. In 2016, Joseph set the all-time major league records for at bats (132) and plate appearances (141) without an RBI in a single season. Through 2016, in his major league career Joseph had batted .213/.271/.342.
Joseph attended Franklin High School in Franklin, Tennessee, where he played for the high school baseball team. He attended Lipscomb University, choosing to play college baseball for the Lipscomb Bisons in the Atlantic Sun Conference, due to the promise of more playing time than he was offered by Vanderbilt University and the University of Arkansas, where he was also recruited. In his junior year, Joseph led the Bisons with a .342 batting average, 17 home runs, and a .615 slugging percentage. He was named to the All-Conference team and was named the Most Valuable Player of the conference tournament.
The Baltimore Orioles drafted Joseph in the seventh round, with the 206th overall selection, of the 2008 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Orioles, receiving a $125,000 signing bonus and tuition payments for his final three semesters of college. In his first professional season, the Orioles assigned him to the Aberdeen IronBirds of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League, where he batted .261 with eight home runs and 34 runs batted in in 63 games. In 2009, the Orioles assigned Joseph to the Frederick Keys of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League.
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