Russell Martin
Russell Nathan Coltrane Jeanson Martin, Jr. (conceived February 15, 1983) is a Canadian expert baseball catcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has already played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates, and is a four-time MLB All-Star. In 2007, Martin won the Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award.
Martin turned into the regular catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers promptly upon his MLB make a big appearance in 2006, and proceeded in that part for almost five years. His hostile and cautious execution earned wide honors amid his initial three years, yet they lessened essentially in 2009 and 2010; Martin spent the most recent two months of 2010 on the debilitated rundown. After the Dodgers declined to offer him assertion in 2011, he marked with the Yankees and succeeded Jorge Posada as the Yankees' regular catcher.
In November 2012, Martin marked a two-year free specialist contract with the Pirates and assumed control over the group's ordinary catcher duties. Following the 2014 season, he marked a five-year, $82 million contract with the place where he grew up Blue Jays.
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