Bengie Molina is the older brother of major league catchers Jose Molina and Yadier Molina.
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36 Facts About Bengie Molina
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Bengie Molina played a handful of games for the Anaheim Angels in 1998 and 1999.
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Bengie Molina became the Angels' regular catcher in 2000 and remained so through the 2005 season.
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Bengie Molina received his World Series ring in 2002 after the Angels defeated the Giants in the 2002 World Series.
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Bengie Molina won a Gold Glove in 2002 and 2003, leading American League catchers in percentage of attempted base stealers thrown out.
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Free agent after the 2005 season, Bengie Molina sought a long-term contract but settled for a one-year deal with the Blue Jays, criticizing the Angels for not re-signing him.
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Bengie Molina won the team's Willie Mac Award in 2007 and 2008, set a career-high with 95 runs batted in in 2008, and hit a career-high 20 home runs in 2009.
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Bengie Molina attended Maestro Ladislao Martinez High School in Vega Alta, graduating with honors.
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Each day when he completed work, Bengie Molina's father went directly home, ate dinner with his family, and crossed the street from his family's home with his sons and his son's friend Carlos Diaz to Jesus Mambe Kuilan Park, exhausting countless evening hours teaching them the fundamentals of the sport.
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Bengie Molina enrolled at Arizona Western College in Yuma in 1991, joining the school's baseball team that year.
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Bengie Molina pitched some for the Matadors, featuring a fastball and a slider, though the fastball only travelled 85 to 87 miles per hour.
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Bengie Molina credited Stratton for improving his understanding of what to do in different situations during games.
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Bengie Molina impressed Poitevint with his ability to hit line drives, but his slow baserunning threatened to be an obstacle to an MLB career.
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Bengie Molina said several elements of the shortstop position translated well to catching, such as the needs to throw accurately, block the baseball, and move the hands quickly.
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Bengie Molina played one other game for the Angels before the end of the season.
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In 2000, Bengie Molina spent spring training competing for the position of starting catcher with Todd Greene, a power hitter who had been viewed as the Angels' catcher of the future a few years before but was struggling offensively, and Matt Walbeck.
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Bengie Molina finished fourth in American League Rookie of the Year Award voting, behind Kazuhiro Sasaki, Terrence Long, and Mark Quinn.
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In 2002, it was Bengie Molina's left hamstring that caused him to go on the disabled list, from July 17 to August 1.
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Bengie Molina started every game at catcher for the Angels in the postseason.
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On pace for his best season ever offensively in 2003, Bengie Molina was a finalist for the All-Star Final Vote, which Jason Varitek ultimately won.
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Bengie Molina had one hit in six at bats as the Boston Red Sox swept Anaheim in the ALDS.
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Bengie Molina was on the disabled list from April 18 to May 12,2005, with a right quadriceps strain.
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Still unsigned in January 2006, Bengie Molina threatened to sit out the season if he did not get a contract to his liking.
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Bengie Molina led his league in passed balls for the second time, this year with 16.
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Bengie Molina again led the majors with 11 sacrifice flies, though he walked in only 2.
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Free agent after the 2009 season, Bengie Molina was not expected to return to the Giants, as he wanted a multi-year contract and the Giants expected prospect Buster Posey to soon take over the role.
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Bengie Molina had a single, a double, a grand slam home run, and a triple, leaving the game with a minor leg injury after the triple.
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Teammate Michael Young was surprised that Bengie Molina accomplished the feat at Fenway Park, thinking the stadium's small dimensions would not allow the ball to get far enough away from the outfielders for the slow-running Bengie Molina to make it to third base for the required triple.
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Bengie Molina's combined totals between the two ballclubs were 118 games, 94 hits, five home runs, and 36 RBI.
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Since the Giants made it to the World Series, Bengie Molina became the sixth player to play for both World Series teams in the same season, which guaranteed him a World Series ring regardless of who won.
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Unsigned in 2011, Bengie Molina eventually announced his retirement on February 27,2012.
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On December 14,2012, Bengie Molina was hired to be the St Louis Cardinals' assistant hitting coach, helping out John Mabry in 2013.
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Bengie Molina joined the Rangers' coaching staff for the 2014 season as their first base coach and catching instructor.
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Bengie Molina was replaced by Hector Ortiz for the 2015 season when Jeff Banister became the Rangers' new manager.
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Bengie Molina serves as the color analyst, while Ascencio calls the plays.
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Bengie Molina is good friends with Ramon Castro, whom his father coached in Little League Baseball.
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