[47], Overall, Molina enjoyed a breakout offensive season, finishing with new career highs with a .304 batting average – his first over .300 – and in hits (135), OBP (.349), SLG (.392), runs (37) and RBIs (56). [65][66], The final batting results for Molina's 2010 season consisted of a .262 batting average, six home runs, and 62 RBIs. [1], One of Molina's landmark playoff performances came in Game 7 of the NLCS against the New York Mets, the final game of the series tied at three games each. [50] As the top vote-getter among NL catchers with 2,641,467 votes, Molina was named the NL's starting catcher. News of Kris Bryant and Ryan Dempster’s comments, and Yadier Molina’s response, has been plastered all over both cities’ media outlets and content hubs. [169], Batting .279 with 13 home runs, Molina was named to the 2018 MLB All-Star Game to replace the injured Buster Posey. [108] In the World Series against the Boston Red Sox, Molina became just the ninth player – and the first in the expansion era – in franchise history to appear in four World Series with the club, and the first since Stan Musial in the 1946 World Series, also against the Red Sox. [96], With increased profile coming in conjunction with his offensive breakout from the year before, Molina's popularity with fans around the game also increased. Molina provided a spark to the offense in the close of the season, batting .342 in August and .341 in September. He also hit .373 with runners in scoring position (RISP) in a season in which the Cardinals set the all-team team record for batting average with RISP at .330. [163] Molina doubled versus Cincinnati on April 22 to give him 338 for his career and tie Ozzie Smith for tenth place in Cardinals' history. Molina hit a two-run single in the first inning to start the Cardinals onslaught. [143] He was winner of the Darryl Kile Good Guy Award. [69] In Game 1 of the World Series against the Texas Rangers, Molina threw out Ian Kinsler attempting to steal in the first inning on the way to a 3–2 win. [123], After missing the next game, his string of 83 consecutive playoff games started was stopped, which was a major league record. [12][203] La Russa commented that "it's not just instinct. [31] In 2012, a Sports Illustrated poll of 306 players found that Molina was the "toughest catcher to run on. June 3, 2004 Mainly a singles hitter who favored hitting the ball the other way, he batted .278 with 14 home runs and 133 runs batted in (RBIs) with 118 strikeouts in 1,044 at-bats in four minor league seasons. 16,081st in MLB history) [32] The Cardinals faced the Padres again in the National League Division Series (NLDS) playoff game in the playoffs, he again picked a Padre off at first, this time Mike Piazza, while bailing pitcher Jeff Suppan out of a jam. [15] At one point in that extended spring training, instructor Dave Ricketts observed Molina from a golf cart during a game as he was still learning how to catch; he had been transitioning from third base. More than three million Puerto Ricans were left without power, and The New York Times had reported that over 95% of cell service was unavailable. Do you have a blog? Steiner Sports allegedly paid him $90,640 in advance when they renewed their contract with him in July 2008. Yadier Molina, #4, St. Louis Cardinals, (Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images) Patrick Baldwin Jr. is a high-school prospect with NBA franchise-changing potential by Andrew Favakeh Molina erased a Mets runner by throwing out Luis Castillo attempting to steal second base. [3] On October 11, 2008, Molina's father died from a heart attack. August 4, 2020: St. Louis Cardinals placed C Yadier Molina on the 10-day injured list.  •  ! [131] Molina's first home run of the season and first in 95 games occurred against the Minnesota Twins on June 15; his previous home run dated back to June 27, 2014. [179], In 2020, Molina made his 16th consecutive Opening Day start. His current position is catcher. [5] Of a total of nineteen trios of brothers who have played in the Major Leagues – including the DiMaggios and the Cruzes – only one other trio of brothers has all appeared in a World Series: Matty, Félipe and Jesús Alou. He attended Maestro Ladislao Martínez High School in Vega Alta. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Further, those figures aligned with peak seasons of other catchers such as Johnny Bench, Elston Howard, Carlton Fisk, and Rick Wilkins. [39] Molina is an avid fan of the St. Louis Blues, and attends games frequently. [14] His strikeout rate of once every 13.9 PA was the second-lowest in the NL. [103], For the year, Molina set new career highs in batting average (.319), doubles (44), runs scored (68), and RBIs (80). [69] With his 30th double on September 21, he became the fourth catcher in Cardinals history to reach that milestone, following Simmons, Bob O'Farrell and Walker Cooper.[73]. [19], Molina appeared in 51 regular-season games and batted .267 with two home runs and 15 RBIs in 151 plate appearances. [1][204] Fangraphs tallied his career DRS at 106, with a career-high of 20 in 2010. Draft: Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 4th round of the 2000 MLB June Amateur Draft from Ladislao Martinez HS (Vega Alta, Puerto Rico). [43] For the season, he successfully caught 35% of opposing baserunners, still higher than the league average of 27%. [18] Three weeks later (August 29), the Cardinals were victorious over the Pittsburgh Pirates 6–4 thanks in part to two separate plays in which Molina tagged out the runner at home plate, including a collision with Ty Wigginton. With Shinnosuke Abe batting for Japan in the top of the eighth inning, and Hirokazu Ibata on second and Seiichi Uchikawa on first, J. C. Romero was pitching for Puerto Rico. [87], On May 27 against the Phillies, Molina blasted his third career grand slam against Roy Halladay. [212] Molina's home run and doubles rates also increased; from 2011–13, he hit 104 of his 226 career doubles. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. [a][30], In a May 27 game against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park in San Diego with the Cardinals holding a 4–3 lead in the bottom of the ninth, Molina picked Brian Giles off first to end the game,[31] the first pickoff to end a major league game in nearly four years. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Yadier Benjamín Molina (Spanish pronunciation: [ʝaˈdjeɾ moˈlina]; born July 13, 1982), nicknamed "Yadi", is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB), with whom he has played his entire 18-year MLB career. In addition, Molina became the first player at any position to win the award unanimously with a perfect score of 100. [38], From May 1 to 24, Molina strung together a then-career high 15-game hitting streak, during which he batted .373. [37], Batting out of the number-five spot in the batting order for the first time in his career on Opening Day, 2007, Molina collected two hits. [63] After an examination on his sore right knee on September 23, Molina was shut down for the rest of the season, missing 12 games. ST. LOUIS (AP) — Yadier Molina had four hits and top prospect Dylan Carlson hit his first career homer, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-2 on Sunday. During that streak, he collected 17 hits in 47 at-bats for a .362 batting average. As of July 2013, Molina had also thrown out 45% of would-be base stealers. 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[166] On June 19, he set the major league record for most games caught with one team with 1,757, passing Gabby Hartnett who had previously held the record as a member of the Cubs. His 44 doubles were the most in the Major Leagues among catchers since Iván Rodríguez' 47 in 1996. [111] Molina was a co-winner, along with Wainwright and Matt Carpenter, for the BBWAA St. Louis Baseball Man of the Year. In 2021, Molina returned temporarily to Puerto Rico to play in the Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente to play as a reinforcement with the Atenienses de Manatí at the semifinals. Pujols provided levity when he then joined in the booing. [67] Nine days later, he was awarded his third consecutive Gold Glove Award. The only thing you have to think about is making the pitch, because you know Yadi's going to catch whatever you throw. "[119] At that point, he was batting .287 with a .341 OBP, .409 SLG, 16 doubles, seven homers, and 30 RBIs through 83 games. He was not interested in exercising his 2018 mutual option, which would have been worth $15 million. Find out more. He passed 80 on September 21, with his 81st and 82nd RBI. However, he did win the prestigious and oldest award given to Latino players: the LatinoMVP award given by Latino Sports and the Latino Sports Writers & Broadcasters Association (LSWBA). They proceeded to defeat the Detroit Tigers in five games, giving Molina his first championship ring. That three-hit game also gave Molina 78 for his career, tied for 43 on the all-time list for catchers. Yadier Benjamín Molina was born on July 13, 1982, in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, to Gladys Matta and Benjamín Molina, Sr., the youngest of three boys. [26] Those were just two wins of 100 as St. Louis made their way to another division title following 105 wins the season before. Molina has appeared on five NL Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) ballots, including finishing fourth in 2012 and third in 2013. The Cardinals' conquest of the NLCS gave them a return trip to the World Series after two years. [149] His tenth-inning double against Milwaukee on August 30, his 30th of the season and 300th of his career, helped lead the Cardinals to a 2–1 victory. [136], Hitting his first triple in more than four years and 2,000 at bats, with the bases loaded, Molina provided the decisive run in a 3–2 outcome against the Chicago White Sox on July 22. [174] He made his first career appearance at third base in extra innings of a 6−5 win on April 1 versus the Pirates. [171] He had the highest fielding percentage among major league catchers, at .998. It was also the second-highest pre-All-Star break total in franchise history following Ted Simmons' 29 thirty-five years earlier. The Cardinals' fourth-round selection in the 2000 MLB draft, he quickly showed one of the strongest and most accurate arms in the game after starting play in the major leagues. [3][4], Each day when he completed work, Molina's father went directly home, ate dinner with his family, and crossed the street from his family's home with his sons and his son’s friend Carlos Diaz to Jesús Mambe Kuilan Park, exhausting countless evening hours teaching them the fundamentals of the sport. He batted .333 in the NLCS against Milwaukee, including five hits in eight AB in the final two games. One week later, he homered in back-to-back games against the Cincinnati Reds; he, Edmonds, and Rick Ankiel each drove in three runs in an 11–3 victory on September 2. This Person Isn't On Snapchat! St. Louis agreed to a one-year, $9 million deal with the … Some defensive statistics Copyright © Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2021. Molina is a nine-time Gold Glove winner who has played with the Cardinals for his entire 18-year MLB career. [6], Molina's catching aptitude showed as early as age five and developed quickly. In his first three seasons, he threw out 111 base runners attempting to steal while allowing 133 stolen bases, for a caught-stealing percentage of 45%. Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer and songwriter, born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania. The next day, on May 6, Molina underwent emergency surgery for a pelvic injury with traumatic hematoma. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. While sliding past third base, he attempted to grab the bag to stay on. "[7] In 2013, a scout pronounced Molina the "one piece the St. Louis Cardinals cannot lose" while another commented that he is "irreplaceable. He doubled and scored on David Eckstein's go-ahead single on his way to three hits in a June 12 defeat of the New York Yankees, 5–3. He also led all NL catchers with 12 three-hit games, and collated 39 multi-hit games and 13 multi-RBI games. How about that? ", "Yadier Molina missing two-plus months would be bad for the Cardinals, but also just bad for baseball, period. It also secured the 100th win for batterymate Adam Wainwright. October 28, 2020: C Yadier Molina elected free agency. At one time, an Arizona Diamondbacks official stated a team policy existed not to run on Molina. He's a quick study. In November, he won his fifth straight Gold Glove award, making him the first Cardinal since Jim Edmonds to win that many consecutively,[94] which Edmonds did in 2004. However, Ibata retreated to second as Uchikawa charged toward him. [69], The Cardinals won the Series in seven games, giving Molina his second championship ring. He has also played for Puerto Rico in the 2021 Caribbean Series. [234], Spurred by absences from autograph shows for which he was paid to appear, Steiner Sports Marketing filed a lawsuit for $175,000 against Molina in the New York state supreme court in Manhattan on October 2, 2009. Thus, he became a more consistent hitter as his career progressed, defying the scouting reports that he would have a weak bat. [93] However, like in years past, other awards were on their way. Or write about sports? He reported to spring training having lost 15 pounds and in improved physical shape from rehabilitating following knee surgery. The ​10 1⁄2 games-won deficit marked the largest lead surrendered with 28 left to play in MLB history,[75] consummating what St. Louis Post-Dispatch sportswriter Bernie Miklasz termed an "improbable comeback,"[76] and one of the greatest sports history. On August 9 against the Kansas City Royals, Molina came in with two outs and the bases loaded. [137] In the annual Baseball America Toolbox Awards, managers and coaches around the National League rated Molina as both the "Best hit and run artist" and "Best defensive catcher" in the NL. The social media I use the most are Twitter and Snapchat. While accumulating 39 mult-hit games, the Cardinals won 27 of them. Information about Yadier Molina: e-mail, phone, facebook, skype, comments and more. Drone video coverage on The Weather Channel described Bayamon as looking "like a war zone." He served a five-game suspension handed down by MLB for "making contact with umpire Rob Drake multiple times and spraying him with spit twice while arguing. [225], Molina married his wife Wanda Torres in 2007 and the couple have three children. He ranked as the fourth toughest in the NL to strike out with 10.2 at bats per strikeout. After missing 26 games, the Cardinals activated him from the disabled list on June 28. [190] In regards to the signing, Molina stated "this is my home" and "I'm happy to be back. [236] Continuing with relief efforts, Molina was consequently named the recipient of the annual Roberto Clemente Award on October 24, 2018. He also had thrown out 10 of 32 baserunners (31.3%) – well below his career average of 45% – but an Associated Press reporter attributed the decline to an inexperienced pitching staff. He's a lock for the Baseball Hall of … Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. [88] In August, he batted .403 with a .453 OBP, both tied for third in the NL. [16], Molina began his professional career with the Johnson City Cardinals of the Rookie-level Appalachian League in 2001, playing 44 total games and batting .259. 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[142] In December, it was revealed that Molina had a second surgery on his left thumb, pushing his return to late in 2016 spring training. July 13, 1982 He is considered to be a future candidate for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Abe took a pitch from Romero inside for a ball as the runners went in motion. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. At that point, Molina led the vote total for NL catchers with more than two million, while Posey was second at 1.4 million and Lucroy third with 1.1 million. In an April 16 game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, he reached base in all five of his plate appearances in a 12–7 victory. [178] On October 9, Molina set the record for the most appearances by a National League player in post-season MLB play, at ninety-four games. [195] Speaking the next day, Molina stated that the previous night's double had been a bigger thrill than his two-run homer to beat the Mets in Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. [92], After being the subject of much speculation for the MVP award throughout the season, Molina ultimately finished fourth. [226] After signing his $75 million contract in 2012, Molina purchased a home on a four-acre property in Jupiter, Florida, for $7.15 million. Isn’t there a better way? [140] Molina won his eighth consecutive Gold Glove Award[141] and fourth Platinum Glove Award in 2015. But at the same time, they tend to just follow him. [1][14] His OPS+ (126),[77] batting average, and hit totals led NL catchers, doubles placed second and RBIs third. [129], With his 11th consecutive Opening Day start on April 5, 2015, against the Cubs, Molina became the first catcher in club history to achieve this feat. 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