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Born
1970 (56 years old)
Tampa, Florida, USA

Position
Catcher

Status
Retired

Ethnicity
White

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Michael Anthony Figga (born July 31, 1970) is a retired catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles. In a three-year career, Figga hit .213 with one home run.

Early life and education
Born in Tampa, Florida, Figga attended A.P. Leto High School in Tampa, graduating in 1988. Figga then enjoyed a short but standout career at Central Florida Community College. Figga was drafted in 1989 by the New York Yankees. He played in the Australian Baseball League with the Canberra Bushrangers in the 1994 and 1995 seasons.

Major league career
After a long career in the minor leagues, Figga made his major-league debut on September 16, 1997, with the Yankees. Figga appeared in five games for the Yankees between 1997 and 1999. His lone major-league appearance in 1998 was on September 23, 1998, when he went one-for-four and scored a run against the Cleveland Indians. For that appearance, Figga earned a World Series ring when the Yankees won the World Series the following month.

In 1999, Figga started the season as one of three catchers on the Yankees' roster, however his mere presence caused controversy amongst the Yankee brass. Out of options, (the number of times a team is allowed to demote a player to the minor leagues without exposing him to waivers) owner George Steinbrenner ordered acting manager Don Zimmer to promote Figga to the major league roster despite offering limited opportunities to play. In fact, he saw no action at all until a doubleheader on May 22 where he was a late inning defensive replacement for both games. He never batted nor appeared in another game for the Yankees. When manager Joe Torre (who missed the first two months after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in spring training) returned, he was able to convince Steinbrenner that he needed the roster spot more than he needed the player so Figga was waived in June 1999 and picked up by the Baltimore Orioles, and played 41 games for the Orioles.

After baseball
From 2000 until 2004, Figga played both in the minor leagues and for the Nashua Pride in the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He subsequently retired from baseball with an early case of the dreaded disease of catchers: bad knees. Today, Figga now works for Republic National Distribution Company and lives in the Tampa Bay area of Florida and recently finished coaching a little league football team called the Westchase Colts and a travel baseball team called the Tampa Bay Bulls.

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New York Yankees	1997-1999	Permanent	-	-
Baltimore Orioles	1999	Permanent	-	-

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	Rbat+	MLB	1999	30
	rOBA	MLB	1999	.235
	OPS+	MLB	1999	40
	OPS	MLB	1999	.538
	SLG	MLB	1999	.302
	OBP	MLB	1999	.236
	Hits/At Bats	MLB	1999	.221
	Positions Played	MLB	1999	/2
	Intentional Bases on Balls	MLB	1999	0
	Sacrifice Flies	MLB	1999	0
	Sacrifice Hits	MLB	1999	0
	Times Hit by a Pitch	MLB	1999	0
	GIDP	MLB	1999	0
	Total Bases	MLB	1999	0
	Strikeouts	MLB	1999	0
	Bases on Balls/Walks	MLB	1999	0
	Caught Stealing	MLB	1999	0
	Stolen Bases	MLB	1999	0
	Runs Batted In	MLB	1999	0
	Home Runs	MLB	1999	0
	Triples	MLB	1999	0
	Doubles	MLB	1999	0
	Hits	MLB	1999	0
	Runs Scored	MLB	1999	0
	At Bats	MLB	1999	0
	Plate Appearances	MLB	1999	0
	Games Played	MLB	1999	2
	Wins Above Replacement for position players	MLB	1999	0.0
	Positions Played	MLB	1998	/2
	Intentional Bases on Balls	MLB	1998	0
	Sacrifice Flies	MLB	1998	0
	Sacrifice Hits	MLB	1998	0
	Times Hit by a Pitch	MLB	1998	0
	GIDP	MLB	1998	0
	Total Bases	MLB	1998	1
	Rbat+	MLB	1998	18
	rOBA	MLB	1998	.226
	OPS+	MLB	1998	33
	OPS	MLB	1998	.500
	SLG	MLB	1998	.250
	OBP	MLB	1998	.250
	Hits/At Bats	MLB	1998	.250
	Strikeouts	MLB	1998	1
	Bases on Balls/Walks	MLB	1998	0
	Caught Stealing	MLB	1998	0
	Stolen Bases	MLB	1998	0
	Runs Batted In	MLB	1998	0
	Home Runs	MLB	1998	0
	Triples	MLB	1998	0
	Doubles	MLB	1998	0
	Hits	MLB	1998	1
	Runs Scored	MLB	1998	1
	At Bats	MLB	1998	4
	Plate Appearances	MLB	1998	4
	Games Played	MLB	1998	1
	Wins Above Replacement for position players	MLB	1998	0.0
	Positions Played	MLB	1997	/2DH
	Intentional Bases on Balls	MLB	1997	0
	Sacrifice Flies	MLB	1997	0
	Sacrifice Hits	MLB	1997	0
	Times Hit by a Pitch	MLB	1997	0
	GIDP	MLB	1997	0
	Total Bases	MLB	1997	0
	Rbat+	MLB	1997	-143
	rOBA	MLB	1997	.000
	OPS+	MLB	1997	-100
	OPS	MLB	1997	.000
	SLG	MLB	1997	.000
	OBP	MLB	1997	.000
	Hits/At Bats	MLB	1997	.000
	Strikeouts	MLB	1997	3
	Bases on Balls/Walks	MLB	1997	0
	Caught Stealing	MLB	1997	0
	Stolen Bases	MLB	1997	0
	Runs Batted In	MLB	1997	0
	Home Runs	MLB	1997	0
	Triples	MLB	1997	0
	Doubles	MLB	1997	0
	Hits	MLB	1997	0
	Runs Scored	MLB	1997	0
	At Bats	MLB	1997	4
	Plate Appearances	MLB	1997	4
	Games Played	MLB	1997	2
	Wins Above Replacement for position players	MLB	1997	-0.1

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