Born: (1970-10-18) October 18, 1970 (age 53) Kingman, Arizona, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 27, 1996, for the San Francisco Giants
Last MLB appearance
September 30, 2007, for the Boston Red Sox
MLB statistics
Batting average
.231
Home runs
58
Runs batted in
206
Teams
San Francisco Giants (1996–2000)
Texas Rangers (2001)
Boston Red Sox (2001–2005)
San Diego Padres (2006)
Boston Red Sox (2006–2007)
Career highlights and awards
2× World Series champion (2004, 2007)
Douglas Anthony Mirabelli (born October 18, 1970) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher. He played for the San Francisco Giants (1996–2000), Texas Rangers (2001), Boston Red Sox (2001–2005), and San Diego Padres (2006) before returning to the Red Sox (2006–2007) to end his 11-year career. He batted and threw right-handed.
Mirabelli was a career .231 hitter with 58 home runs and 206 runs batted in in 566 games. While with the Red Sox, he was well-known as the personal catcher for knuckleballer Tim Wakefield. He was part of the Red Sox' World Series championship teams in 2004 and 2007.
Douglas Anthony Mirabelli (born October 18, 1970) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher. He played for the San Francisco Giants (1996–2000)...
DougMirabelli, formerly of the Red Sox, used a softball catcher's mitt. The Boston Red Sox, in their 2004 world championship season, had Mirabelli regularly...
walks, combined with a throwing error by Millar and a passed ball by DougMirabelli, allowed the Cardinals to reduce the lead to two runs. In the sixth...
sport. From 1991 to 1993, led by multi-year All-Americans Chris Wimmer, DougMirabelli, and Darren Dreifort, the Shockers made three consecutive trips to the...
Horwitz, Noah Lowry, Merkin Valdez, Chad Zerbe, Russ Ortiz, Bill Mueller, DougMirabelli, Rod Beck, Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, Shawn Estes, Emmanuel Burriss...
Charlie O'Brien, Eddie Pérez, Paul Bako, and Henry Blanco for Greg Maddux DougMirabelli and George Kottaras, for knuckleballer Tim Wakefield Josh Thole, for...
came in from the bullpen, without his customary "personal catcher", DougMirabelli. Varitek, the starting catcher, had trouble with Wakefield's tricky...
and 25 home runs in 59 games. On August 17, Red Sox backup catcher DougMirabelli pulled a calf muscle rounding third base in the first game of a doubleheader...
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game that Boston backup catcher DougMirabelli admitted it was a hoax. "It was painted," Thorne said. "DougMirabelli confessed up to it after. It was...
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Padres, along with then-Red Sox backup catcher Josh Bard, for catcher DougMirabelli. Meredith earned a win in his first appearance for San Diego on May...
of Wakefield's starts. For several years, his personal catcher was DougMirabelli, who used a league-approved mitt similar to a softball catcher's mitt...
Jason Varitek, who did not normally catch for Wakefield (backup catcher DougMirabelli usually did) and who admitted to being poor at catching knuckleballs...
cash consideration. Johnson was released the same day. May 1, 2006: DougMirabelli was acquired by the Red Sox from the Padres in exchange for Josh Bard...
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Double-A Trenton before being traded to the Texas Rangers for catcher DougMirabelli. He finished the year pitching well with the Texas organization, going...
Duchscherer was traded by the Boston Red Sox to the Texas Rangers for DougMirabelli. July 2, 2001: Ken Caminiti was released by the Texas Rangers. July...
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