Mike Piazza is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher who played 16 seasons from 1992 to 2007. Piazza helped the Mets reach the World Series in 2000, his only World Series appearance.

Piazza’s most notable teams were the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers, with brief stops with the Florida Marlins, San Diego Padres, and Oakland Athletics.

His best season as a Dodger came in 1997 when he batted.362, hit 40 home runs, and had 124 RBI, finishing second in voting for the National League Most Valuable Player Award.

Piazza was a 12-time All-Star and 10-time Silver Slugger Award winner at catcher. Piazza played in 1,912 games in the major leagues, accumulating 2,127 hits in 6,911 at bats for a.308 career batting average, 427 home runs, 1,335 runs batted in, an on-base plus slugging percentage of.922 and an on-base percentage of.377.

Piazza was the hitting coach for the Italian National Baseball team at the World Baseball Classics in 2009 and 2013. When the Italian Baseball Academy won back-to-back European Baseball Championships in 2010 and 2012, he was an instructor.

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