2013 Auxiliary Bios #31 Drew Butera #60 Jose Dominguez #49 Carlos Marmol #47 Ricky Nolasco #33 Scott Van Slyke #30 Edinson Volquez #00 Brian Wilson #10 Michael Young drewCATCHER BUTERA HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6-1/201 BATS/THROWS: R/R BORN: 8/9/83 in Evansville, IN OPENING DAY AGE: 29 RESIDES: Lake Mary, FL ACQUIRED: Trade with New York-NL, 7/30/07 M.L. SERVICE: 2 years, 156 days CONTRACT STATUS: Signed thru 2013 PERSONAL: Andrew Edward Butera (pronounced byoo-TAIR-uh)...2002 graduate of Bishop Moore (FL) High School where he played baseball and golf...attended University of Central Florida...was a semifinalist for the Johnny Bench Award in 2005, given to the nation’s top collegiate catcher, but was beaten out by USC’s Jeff Clement...batted .325 (67-for-206) with 13 doubles, five home runs, and 41 RBI in 60 games in senior season in 2005... father Sal, who is now a major league scout for Toronto, played in major leagues from 1980-88, including with the Twins from 1980-82 and 1987. 2012: • Started season with Triple-A Rochester and went 2-for-4 with a TWINS POSITION PLAYERS WHO HAVE PITCHED double, a home run and three RBI in first game April 5 at Syracuse. PLAYER DATE OPP IP R ER • Batted .279 (12-for-43) with three doubles, one home run, five RBI Julio Becquer 9-10-61 at KC 1.1 3 3 and six runs scored in 15 games for Red Wings before being recalled Cesar Tovar * 9-22-68 OAK 1.0 0 0 by Twins May 1. Dan Gladden 6-27-88 at CAL 1.0 0 0 • Tied career-high with three hits, going 3-for-4 with a double May Dan Gladden 5-7-89 at CLE 1.0 1 1 John Moses 6-24-89 at BOS 1.0 0 0 17 at Detroit. John Moses 5-19-90 at BOS 1.0 1 1 • Doubled in three straight games May 16-19. John Moses 7-31-90 CAL 1.0 2 2 Michael Cuddyer 7-25-11 at TEX 1.0 0 0 • Tossed 1.0 scoreless inning of relief, with one walk and one strikeout Drew Butera 5-20-12 at MIL 1.0 0 0 May 20 at Milwaukee...according to Elias, his father, Sal Butera, pitched 1.0 scoreless inning for Montreal in 1985 and for Cincinnati * - started game in 1986; they became first father-son position players to pitch in a major league game...sixth different position player to pitch for Twins, first since Michael Cuddyer did so July 25, 2011 at Texas. • Hit first home run of season, a three-run shot, July 1 vs. Kansas City...the three RBI tied a career-high. • Named to 2013 Italy roster for World Baseball Classic. 2011: Made Twins Opening Day roster for second time in career (also in 2010)...set career-high with three RBI April 18 at Baltimore...matched that with three RBI September 24 at Cleveland...set career-high with five-game hitting streak May 29-June 6...hit first home run of season, a two-run shot off Rick Porcello, June 1 at Detroit...batted .391 (9-for-23) with four doubles, one home run, six RBI and six runs scored in eight-game stretch May 29-June 10...had game-winning walk-off single June 19 vs. San Diego...led all Twins catchers in games caught with 93 (75 starts), which ranked 11th in American League...his caught-stealing percentage of 29.4% (20 caught stealing in 68 attempts) ranked third best in American League and fifth best in baseball...caught 20 runners attempting to steal, which was ninth most in American League. 2010: Made Twins Opening Day roster as the club’s back-up catcher, and spent full season with the big league club...made major league debut, starting at catcher and batting ninth, April 9 at Chicago-AL...singled off Mitch Talbot for first career hit April 22 vs. Cleveland...recorded first major league RBI with two-run single off Kevin Millwood May 8 vs. Baltimore...hit first major league home run, a 10th inning pinch-hit solo homer off Chad Durbin June 19 at Philadelphia...Twins pitchers posted ERA of 3.66 (64.0 IP, 26 ER) with 66 strikeouts and opponent batting average of .215 (49-for-228) during that span...caught Carl Pavano’s starts from July 11-September 10 and helped the right-hander go 7-5, 3.31 ERA (87.0 IP, 32 ER) with four complete games (1 shutout) in 12 starts...threw out 14 of 35 runners attempting to steal for a 40% caught stealing percentage, the best of any rookie catcher in baseball (minimum of 350.0 innings caught)...tied for 13th on all-time list for highest caught stealing percentage for a rookie catcher (40.0%) and ninth all-time for an AL catcher...it was best ever caught stealing percentage for a Twins rookie catcher...his 394.2 innings caught were 10th most by a Twins rookie catcher in club history...the 14 runners caught stealing were sixth most for a Twins rookie catcher...caught five of the Twins nine complete games and one of the Twins three shutouts. 2009: Spent entire season at Triple-A Rochester...hit first Triple-A home run June 24 vs. Columbus...went 3-for-4 with two doubles August 10 at Buffalo...finished second in International League in caught stealing percentage, throwing out 40 of 96 (41.7%) base stealers...tied for league lead in passed balls with 14...ranked top defensive catcher in International League by Baseball America. 2008: Spent entire season at Double-A New Britain...scored season-high three runs in a 3-for-5 effort April 12 at Portland...had season-high four-hit game June 18 at Portland (2 doubles, 2 runs scored)...hit .462 (30-for-65) over 21 games in June...recorded 11 multi-hit games, including four games with three-or-more hits...appeared in 96 games, including 92 as Rock Cats catcher...ranked top defensive catcher in Eastern League by Baseball America. 2007: Began season at Single-A St. Lucie (New York-NL)...had four consecutive two-hit games, going 8-for-19 (.421) May 29-June 3...homered in consecutive games May 30-31...promoted to Double-A Binghamton June 22...hit safely in eight of nine games June 27-July 7...acquired by Minnesota along with Dustin Martin, in exchange for second baseman Luis Castillo July 30...assigned to Double-A New Britain and had season-high six-game hit-streak, going 7-for-20 (.350) August 5-20...tied season-high three hits August 29 at Binghamton. 2006: Spent entire season at Single-A Hagerstown...had season-high five-game hit-streak May 23-29...went 5-for-5 with a home run and three RBI June 10 at Delmarva...batted .286 (16-for-56) with three doubles, two home runs, and 11 RBI in June...tied season-high three RBI July 7 vs. Lake County. 40 2005: Spent entire season at Rookie Brooklyn...hit only home run of season June 25 vs. Aberdeen...had season-high five-game hit-streak August 15-19...tied season-high three RBI August 26 at Staten Island...hit safely in six of seven games, going 9-for-27 (.333) August 30-September 5... had season-high three hits September 1 vs. Staten Island...threw out 29 of 62 (46.8%) runners attempting to steal. PROFESSIONAL: Originally drafted in 48th round of 2002 First-Year Player Draft by Toronto, but did not sign...New York Mets fifth round pick in the 2005 First-Year Player Draft...signed by scout John Bunnell. 2012 butera’s GAME HIGHS CAREER Hits: 3, 5/17 at DET HR: 1, 7/1 vs. KC Hits: 3, 2x, last 5/17/12 at DET HR: 1, 5x, last 7/1/12 vs. KC 2013 Players 2013 RBI: 3, 7/1 vs. KC Grand Slams: - - RBI: 3, 3x, last 7/1/12 vs. KC Grand Slams: - - Hit-Streak: 4, 6/20-7/6 SB: - - Hit-Streak: 5, 5/29-6/6/11 SB: - - BUtera’S PLAYING RECORD YEAr ClUb AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SH SF HB BB SO SB CS E OBP 2005 Brooklyn .217 55 175 13 38 9 1 1 23 1 4 2 22 33 1 0 12 .305 2006 Hagerstown .186 95 295 24 55 13 0 5 38 5 6 7 42 72 1 0 9 .297 2007 St. Lucie .258 52 182 22 47 14 0 5 22 0 2 2 24 28 0 1 4 .348 Binghamton .188 30 117 7 22 2 0 1 4 1 0 1 2 22 0 0 5 .208 New Britain .260 17 50 3 13 3 1 0 3 1 0 0 5 5 0 0 2 .327 2008 New Britain .219 96 302 39 66 18 1 7 39 4 4 6 35 55 0 1 6 .308 2009 Rochester .211 99 298 23 63 16 1 2 25 8 3 2 22 49 0 1 7 .268 2010 Minnesota .197 49 142 12 28 6 1 2 13 3 2 4 4 25 0 0 5 .237 2011 Minnesota .167 93 234 19 39 9 1 2 23 6 1 2 11 42 0 0 5 .210 2012 Rochester .279 15 43 6 12 3 0 1 5 1 1 0 3 9 0 0 1 .319 Minnesota .198 42 111 7 22 6 0 1 5 0 0 2 9 26 0 0 1 .270 Minor League Totals .216 459 1462 137 316 78 4 22 159 21 20 20 155 273 2 3 46 .296 Major League Totals .183 184 487 38 89 21 2 5 41 9 3 8 24 93 0 0 11 .232 BUTERA’S CAREER FIELDING RECORD POSITION PCT G PO A E TC DP PB Catcher .990 181 961 79 11 1051 8 15 Pitcher — 1 0 0 0 0 0 — Totals .990 182 961 79 11 1051 8 15 Twins College alumni Player College Player College Bryan Augenstein University of Florida Chris Herrmann University of Miami Nick Blackburn Seminole State JC Alvin Community College Brandon Boggs Georgia Tech University Kyle Knudson University of Minnesota Jared Burton Western Carolina University Danny Lehmann Rice University Drew Butera University of Central Florida Darin Mastroianni Southern Indiana University Jamey Carroll University of Evansville Alex Meyer University of Kentucky Jeff Clement University of Southern California Mike Pelfrey Wichita State University Chris Colabello Assumption College Glen Perkins University of Minnesota Kevin Correia Grossmont College Josh Roenicke University of California, Los Angeles Cal Poly State University Anthony Slama Santa Ana Community College Cole De Vries University of Minnesota University of San Diego Scott Diamond SUNY-Binghamton Mark Sobolewski University of Miami Brian Dinkelman McKendree College Caleb Thielbar South Dakota State University Brian Dozier University of Mississippi Clete Thomas Auburn University Brian Duensing University of Nebraska P.J.