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2013 TIGERS
• Topped all American League catchers with 1,018 total chances and 940 putouts, while he finished second with a .995
fielding percentage and 73 assists.
• Tabbed the third-best defensive catcher in the American League by Baseball America.
• Established a career best with five RBI on April 6 at Baltimore -- marked the most RBI by a Tigers catcher since Ivan
Rodriguez also drove in five runs on June 15, 2007 at Philadelphia.
• Batted .329 (23x70) with six doubles, a triple, three home runs and 18 RBI in 21 games during April.
• Connected for two home runs on May 2 versus the New York Yankees to match a career best -- equaled the best with
two home runs on May 24 versus Tampa Bay...became the first Tigers catcher with multiple multi-home run games in
a season since John Flaherty also posted two such games during the 1995 season.
• Collected a career-high two triples on June 9 versus Seattle -- became just the third Tigers catcher to finish with two
triples in a game since at least 1919, joining Lance Parrish (September 27, 1980 versus New York Yankees) and Brad
Ausmus (July 6, 1999 versus New York Yankees).
• Batted .346 (27x78) with six doubles, two triples, two home runs and 17 RBI in 24 games during June.
• Compiled a 10-game hitting streak August 2-13, batting .400 (14x35) with two doubles, three home runs and eight RBI.
• Established a career high with a 12-game hitting streak August 15-28 -- batted .419 (18x43) with five doubles, a triple,
four home runs and nine RBI during the streak...marked his second hitting streak of 10 games-or-better during August
and he became the first Tigers player to have two such hitting streaks in the same month since Roger Cedeno posted
two 10-game hitting streaks in May of 2001.
• Tabbed the Tigers Player of the Month for August after hitting .360 (32x89) with seven doubles, a triple, seven home
runs and 18 RBI in 26 games -- third in the American League with a .697 slugging percentage during the month, while
he was fourth with a .472 on-base percentage, seventh with a .360 batting average and tied for eighth with seven home
runs.
• Established a career high with four hits on September 4 versus the Chicago White Sox.
• Hit .304 (102x336) against righthanded pitchers...batted .273 (35x128) with lefties on the mound.
Completed his first full season at the major league level with the Tigers in 2010.
• Threw out 31.7 percent of runners attempting to steal (20x63), second among American League catchers.
• Belted two home runs on May 5 at Minnesota to establish a career high.
• Batted .306 (15x49) in 17 games during June.
• Connected for a two-run home run in the ninth inning on August 14 at Chicago’s U.S. Cellular Field to lead the Tigers
to a 3-2 win over the White Sox -- according to the Elias Sports Bureau, he was the first Tigers rookie catcher with a
game-winning home run in the ninth inning-or-later since Lance Parrish belted a walk-off home run in the 16th inning
off Seattle’s Shane Rawley on May 16, 1978.
• Hit .302 (19x63) in 21 games during September.
Spent the first four months of the 2009 season with Double A Erie before having his contract purchased by the Tigers
on August 5 and receiving his first major league action.
• Selected to the Eastern League’s mid-season all-star squad.
• Threw out 43.6 percent of baserunners attempting to steal (34x78) with Erie, tops in the Eastern League.
• Hit .415 (17x41) with four doubles, two home runs and nine RBI over an 11-game stretch May 20-June 2.
• Batted .377 (23x61) with six doubles, three home runs and 17 RBI over an 18-game stretch June 20-July 8.
• Collected a season-high three home runs and seven RBI for Erie on July 24 versus Binghamton.
• Tied for fifth in the Eastern League with six home runs during July.
• Made his major league debut with the Tigers on August 6 versus Baltimore -- doubled and drove in a run in the third
inning off David Hernandez for his first major league hit...finished with two hits to become the first Tigers player to
collect two-or-more hits in his major league debut since Brent Clevlen did so on July 30, 2006 at Minnesota.
• Connected for his first major league home run on August 7 versus Minnesota, a two-run shot in the first inning off
Anthony Swarzak...marked his second straight game with two hits and at least one RBI...according to the Elias Sports
Bureau, he became the first Tigers player to collect at least two hits and one RBI in both of his first two major league
games since Dale Alexander did so during the 1929 season.
• Added two hits in his third career game on August 11 at Boston to become the first Tigers player since at least 1954 to
begin his major league career with at least two hits in each of his first three games.
• Hit .324 (12x37) with four doubles, three home runs and nine RBI in 14 games during August -- tied for fourth among
all American League rookies with three home runs during the month.
• Batted .400 (4x10) versus lefthanded pitchers with the Tigers...hit .255 (13x51) with righties on the mound.
• Hit .368 (14x38) in 17 games at home...batted .130 (3x23) in 12 games on the road.
• Named the sixth-best prospect and best defensive catcher in the Tigers organization following the season by Baseball
America.
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