Dioner Navarro

Dioner Favian Navarro Vivas is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher for the Cincinnati Reds organization. In 2000, Navarro was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent. In 2003, with the Double-A Trenton Thunder, he hit .341 in 58 games and was selected as the Yankees minor league player of the year and was the top-ranked prospect in the Yankees organization heading into 2004. Navarro made his Major League debut with the Yankees on September 7, 2004, playing against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and played in seven games, batting .429 with one RBIs and two runs scored.... Before the 2005 season, Navarro was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks with Javier Vázquez and Brad Halsey for Randy Johnson. That same day, the Diamondbacks traded Navarro, Beltrán Pérez, Danny Muegge and William Juarez to the Dodgers for Shawn Green. In 2006, both Navarro and Russell Martin were invited to spring training to compete for the starting catcher. Both played well, but at the end of the spring Navarro was named the Dodgers' catcher, and Martin was sent to the Triple-A Las Vegas 51s.
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