Iván Rodríguez
Puerto Rican baseball catcher (born 1971) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Iván Rodríguez Torres (born November 27, 1971), nicknamed "Pudge"[1] and "I-Rod",[2] is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball catcher. A member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Rodríguez is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in MLB history. He played for the Texas Rangers (in two separate stints, comprising the majority of his career), Florida Marlins, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Washington Nationals.
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 Rodríguez with the Texas Rangers in 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Catcher | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born: (1971-11-27) November 27, 1971 (age 52) Manatí, Puerto Rico | |||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||||||
| June 20, 1991, for the Texas Rangers | |||||||||||||||||||
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| September 28, 2011, for the Washington Nationals | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Batting average | .296 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hits | 2,844 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 311 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 1,332 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of the National | |||||||||||||||||||
 Baseball Hall of Fame | |||||||||||||||||||
| Induction | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Vote | 76.0% (first ballot) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Rodríguez was awarded the AL MVP award in 1999. He won the 2003 World Series with the Florida Marlins and played in the 2006 World Series while with the Tigers. In 2009, he set an MLB record by catching his 2,227th game, passing Carlton Fisk. He had the best career caught-stealing percentage of any major league catcher, at 45.68% (versus a league average of 31%), and he had nine seasons with a caught-stealing rate of 50% or higher.[3] Only one major league catcher (Yadier Molina) has more putouts.
Rodríguez recorded 2844 hits in his career, the most of any catcher in MLB history.
In 2017, Rodríguez was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown in his first year of eligibility, receiving 76% of the votes cast.
After retiring from baseball, he served as a Shadow Representative from Puerto Rico.