Paul Bako

A man in a white baseball uniform faces to the left. He reaches to shake hands with another unseen person. His uniform reads "Bako" in small orange print and "9" in larger orange print on the back, and he is wearing a black batting helmet with an orange-and-black bird on the face.

Bako with the Baltimore Orioles

Catcher

Born: June 20, 1972 (age 44)
Lafayette, Louisiana

Batted: Left

Threw: Right

MLB debut

April 30, 1998, for the Detroit Tigers

Last MLB appearance

October 4, 2009, for the Philadelphia Phillies

MLB statistics

Batting average

.231

Home runs

Runs batted in

195

Teams

Gabor Paul Bako II (/ˈbɑːkoʊ/; born June 20, 1972) is a former catcher in Major League Baseball. Bako is an example of a baseball "journeyman", having played for 11 different major league teams during his 12-year career. He is officially listed at 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and 210 pounds (95 kg).

Bako attended high school and college in his home state of Louisiana, winning two conference championships at the University of Southwest Louisiana. After reaching the majors with the American League's Detroit Tigers in 1998, Bako spent seven seasons in the National League, playing with six different teams. He returned to the American League with the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals, then played for the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies for one season each.

In 1990, Bako was drafted out of Lafayette High School—who later retired his number 6—with the ninth pick of the sixth round by the Cleveland Indians. He chose not to sign, and attended the University of Southwest Louisiana. In his college career, Bako caught for the Ragin' Cajuns during two consecutive conference championship seasons: 1991 in the American South Conference, when they finished with a 49–20 record, 14th-best among Division I squads; and 1992 in the Sun Belt Conference, when Southwestern Louisiana's pitching staff amassed a 3.50 earned run average, 29th-best in Division I. In 1993, he was named to the second team of the all-Sun Belt Conference baseball team, and was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the fifth round of the 1993 June draft.

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