Joe Oliver (baseball)
| Joe Oliver | |||
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| Catcher | |||
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Born: July 24, 1965 Memphis, Tennessee |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 15, 1989, for the Cincinnati Reds | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 6, 2001, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .247 | ||
| Home runs | 102 | ||
| Runs batted in | 476 | ||
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Joseph Melton Oliver (born July 24, 1965) is a former Major League Baseball catcher and current manager in minor league baseball. During his 19-year playing career (1983–2001) he was a member of the Cincinnati Reds 1990 World Series Champions.
Oliver was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 1983 MLB amateur draft, Oliver would make his Major League Baseball debut with Cincinnati on July 15, 1989, and appear in his final game on October 6, 2001. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 3 inches (191 cm) tall and weighed 215 pounds (98 kg; 15.4 st). Oliver was a member of the Reds team that defeated the Oakland Athletics in the 1990 World Series. He drove in Billy Bates from second base in Game 2 of that series with a hit off Dennis Eckersley to win the game and propel the Reds to the title.
Oliver had a 13-season Major League career with the Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. In 1,076 games played—769 of them with the Reds—he amassed 831 hits, with 174 doubles and three triples to accompany his 102 career home runs. In 1992, he led National League catchers in games caught, putouts and range factor. He also led NL backstops in fielding percentage in 1990.
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