Jason Kendall Biography

Jason Kendall was a big league catcher from 1996 to 2010 and played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals. In 1996 he hit .300 and made the NL All-Star team in route to earning the Rookie of the Year Award and setting him on the path to success for the remainder of his 15-year career. During Kendall’s first five seasons in the big leagues he proved himself to be a premier backstop, earning three All-Star selections which earned him a six-year, $60 million extension with the Pirates in 2000. Over the next decade, he served as a consistent leader from behind the plate for several teams and accumulated the second most stolen bases ever by a catcher with 189. After retiring from the game in 2010 he wrote a book called, “ThrowBack: A Big League Catcher Tells How the Game is Really Played,” which was released in 2014. 

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