Dioner Navarro

ABOUT DIONER NAVARRO

Venezuelan major league catcher who made his first All-Star game in 2008.

He was signed by the New York Yankees in 2000.

When he was an All-Star in 2008, he threw out 38 percent of would-be basestealers.

His son Dioner Jr. was born in 2005.

Russell Martin made his major league debut on the Los Angeles Dodgers when he filled in for an injured Navarro.