Kelly Stinnett

Kelly Stinnett
Catcher
Born: (1970-02-14) February 14, 1970 (age 47) Lawton, Oklahoma
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 5, 1994, for the New York Mets
Last MLB appearance
September 30, 2007, for the St. Louis Cardinals
MLB statistics
Batting average	.234
Home runs	65
Runs batted in	230
Teams
New York Mets (1994–1995) Milwaukee Brewers (1996–1997) Arizona Diamondbacks (1998–2000) Cincinnati Reds (2001–2003) Philadelphia Phillies (2003) Kansas City Royals (2004) Arizona Diamondbacks (2005) New York Yankees (2006) New York Mets (2006) St. Louis Cardinals (2007)

Kelly Lee Stinnett (born February 4, 1970) is a retired Major League Baseball catcher. He played all or part of 14 seasons in the majors, from 1994 until 2007.

Stinnett attended Lawton High School in Lawton, Oklahoma and was a letterman in football, and baseball. He was an All-State selection in baseball and in football and he led his football team to the Oklahoma Class 5A State Championship. He played on this championship team with 2 other professional athletes – James Trapp and Will Shields. Trapp went to the NFL and played for the Raiders and Shields played for the Kansas City Chiefs.

He attended Seminole Junior College in Oklahoma, where in his freshman year he was All-Conference and All-Region after leading all junior college players with 30 home runs and 124 RBI. In his year, he was National Junior College Player of the Year and a first-team All-American. That year, he had a batting average of .399 and had 22 home runs and 97 RBI, leading his team to a Third-place finish in the Junior College World Series. After college, he spent one year with an independent team in Upstate New York named the Watertown Indians.

He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 1989 amateur draft as the 279th overall pick, and was selected by the New York Mets in the 1993 Rule 5 draft on December 13, 1993. He began his first season the following spring, on April 5, 1994, with the Mets.

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