José Molina (baseball)
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Molina with the Tampa Bay Rays
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Born: June 3, 1975 Bayamón, Puerto Rico |
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| September 6, 1999, for the Chicago Cubs | |||||||||||||
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| September 28, 2014, for the Tampa Bay Rays | |||||||||||||
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| Batting average | .233 | ||||||||||||
| Home runs | 39 | ||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 223 | ||||||||||||
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José Benjamin Molina (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse moˈlina]; born June 3, 1975) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball coach and former catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for four teams in MLB, and for the Puerto Rican national team in the World Baseball Classic (WBC). Noted for his abilities in pitch-framing and in handling pitching staffs, Molina is a two-time World Series champion in MLB and two-time a silver medalist with Puerto Rico.
Molina is the middle of three brothers (older brother Bengie and younger brother Yadier), all of whom have played catcher in Major League Baseball. They are the only three brothers in MLB history to all win World Series rings. Bengie and José did it together as members of the 2002 Anaheim Angels, and Yadier with the 2006 and 2011 Cardinals. José later won a second ring with the 2009 New York Yankees.
Molina graduated from Maestro Ladi High School in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico in 1993, and attended Ladislao Martinez High School in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico.
Molina was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 14th round of the 1993 amateur draft. Molina's first major league team was the Cubs, for which he played 10 games in 1999.
He joined the then-Anaheim Angels in 2001 as a free agent, but played only a handful of games before establishing himself during the 2002 season as the Angels backup catcher for his brother, Bengie.
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