Dioner Navarro

Dioner Navarro
Navarro playing for the Toronto Blue Jays in 2014
Free agent
Catcher
Born: (1984-02-09) February 9, 1984 (age 33) Caracas, Venezuela
Bats: Switch Throws: Right
MLB debut
September 7, 2004, for the New York Yankees
MLB statistics (through 2016 season)
Batting average	.250
Hits	802
Home runs	77
Runs batted in	367
Teams
New York Yankees (2004) Los Angeles Dodgers (2005–2006) Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays (2006–2010) Los Angeles Dodgers (2011) Cincinnati Reds (2012) Chicago Cubs (2013) Toronto Blue Jays (2014–2015) Chicago White Sox (2016) Toronto Blue Jays (2016)
Career highlights and awards
All-Star (2008)

Dioner Favian Navarro Vivas (born February 9, 1984) is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox and Toronto Blue Jays. With the Rays, Navarro was an All-Star in 2008.

In 2000, Navarro was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent. In 2003, with the Double-A Trenton Thunder, he hit .341 in 58 games and was selected as the Yankees minor league player of the year and was the top-ranked prospect in the Yankees organization heading into 2004.

Navarro made his Major League debut with the Yankees on September 7, 2004, playing against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and played in seven games, batting .429 (3-for-7) with one RBIs and two runs scored.

Before the 2005 season, Navarro was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks with Javier Vázquez and Brad Halsey for Randy Johnson. That same day, the Diamondbacks traded Navarro, Beltrán Pérez, Danny Muegge, and William Juarez to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Shawn Green.