Miguel Montero

Miguel Montero
Arizona Diamondbacks – No. 26
Catcher
Born: July 9, 1983 (1983-07-09) Caracas, Venezuela
Bats: Left	Throws: Right
MLB debut
September 6, 2006 for the Arizona Diamondbacks
Career statistics (through 2011 season)
Batting average	.268
Home runs	50
Runs batted in	250
Teams
Arizona Diamondbacks (2006–present)
Career highlights and awards
All-Star (2011)

Miguel Angel Montero (born July 9, 1983, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Baseball career

Arizona Diamondbacks

Signed as an undrafted free agent in 2001, Montero showed an ability to hit for average and power in the minors, hitting .307 with 43 home runs in 2005 and 2006.

He made his major league debut on September 6, 2006, against the Florida Marlins. Montero would play in a total of 6 games that year batting a .250 batting average.

In 2007 and 2008, Montero platooned with Chris Snyder at the catching position for the D-Backs and batted a .224 batting average with 10 home runs in 2007 and batting .255 with 5 home runs in 2008.

Montero began the 2009 season slowly, hitting just three home runs and having just a .200 batting average through the first two months. However, when Snyder was put on the disabled list in June, Montero's playing time increased markedly and finished the season with a career high .294 batting average.

Montero caught Edwin Jackson's no-hitter on June 25, 2010. He would finish the season with a .266 batting average and 9 home runs.

In 2011, after hitting .272 with 10 home runs and 45 RBI, Montero was selected to his first All-Star Game.

External links

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)