Brook Fordyce

Brook Alexander Fordyce (born May 7, 1970) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher with the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays between 1995 and 2004.

He spent parts of the next two seasons in the major leagues with the Reds, until a trade took him to the Chicago White Sox.

[1] After being traded from the White Sox to the Orioles in the middle of the 2000 season, Fordyce batted .322 in 53 games with Baltimore.

It took him 21 games to drive in a run, and his batting average never got within 100 points of his performance with the team the previous year.

[3] Orioles manager Mike Hargrove indicated he was not declaring a number one catcher and said that Fordyce would compete for the job with young prospects Fernando Lunar and Geronimo Gil.