John Baker
Baseball Player
MLB catcher who began his career with the Florida Marlins in 2008.
He was a standout hitter at the University of California, Berkeley, leading the entire Pac-10 with a .383 average.
He was the Marlins starting catcher for a few years, and then joined the Padres to back up Nick Hundley and Yasmani Grandal.
His wife Meghan was a teacher at St. Isidore School in Danville, California.
Michael Lewis, in his best-selling book Moneyball, mentioned Baker several times.