Yadier Benjamin Molina, also known as "Yadi", is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals selected him in the fourth round of the 2000 MLB Draft and he made his MLB debut in 2004. As of 2014, Molina is a two-time World Series champion and has earned six consecutive selections to the All Star Game, six Rawlings Gold Glove Awards and one Silver Slugger Award. In the first ten years of his career, the Cardinals appeared in seven playoff tournaments. Coming from a baseball family, Molina grew up in Bayam�n, Puerto Rico. His father was an amateur second baseman in Puerto Rico, and his two older brothers, Bengie and Jos�, were also major league catchers. Molina's pitch-handling and throwing skills originally caught the attention of scouts before being drafted. Soon after making his major league debut, he quickly won a reputation for possessing one of the strongest and most accurate arms in the game. As of 2014, he had thrown out 257, or 45% of, runners attempting a stolen base over his career and led active MLB catchers with 52 pickoffs. 

July 13th, 1982 in Bayamón (Age 42)