Jarrod Saltalamacchia is American professional and he is a baseball catcher for the Detroit Tigers in Major League Baseball. He played the MLB for Arizona Braves, Arizona diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, Boston Red Sox and Texas Rangers. With the 14 characters, his last name became the longest name in mlb history. His name Saltalamacchia comes from the Italian word and it means to jump from salta and thicket for La Macchia. This is a southern Italy dialect which means to jump over tall brush. He was nicknamed Salty.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia was born in the Florida, at the West Palm Beach and he attended the Royal Palm Beach High School in the city of Royal Palm Beach of Florida and he graduated in the year 2003, he went to the high school together with the future Texas Rangers teammate called Kason Gabbard and the two have been friends while growing up. He was a member for the Team Florida USA and he got gold while playing with the team in the junior Olympics of 2001.
From the Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s biography, he stated to play with Atlanta Braves and he was the 36 overall pick for 2003 Major League Baseball Draft. In the year 2006, he had a breakout season in his class A Myrtle Beach Pelicans and he switch-hit slugger hit of 314 with 19 homers, 35 doubles and the 81 Batted in the RBIs of 129 games. He was ranked to be 18th in the Baseball America Top 100 prospects of 2006 and on 36th the Following year.
In the year 2007 season, Jarrod started when he was the catcher for Double A Mississippi Braves and in the games he played that were over 22 games, he made 7 home runs with the batting average that was 373. At his 22nd birthday, he was called up to join Atlanta and to replace Bryan Pena at the roster and to fill-in in the place of Brian McCann who got injury on his finger. This call up, turned him to become a new record holder with the longest surname of 14 letters and this was the record that was held by William Van Landingham.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia practices Christianity and he spoke out the faith he has when it came to bombing of the Boston Marathon and he said that even if he wishes he can be angry, he wants to forgive as Jesus wants. Jarrod Saltalamacchia is married to Ashley and she was a former gym teacher in his high school. He got married to his wife in only one year after the graduation. When he joined Detroit Tigers, he was on one-year contract and he was playing as a catcher. The highlights about his games and the points he had can be found online. Jarrod Saltalamacchia had decided to venture into the twitter world.
| Birth Date: | 2 May, 1985 |
| Age: | 35 yrs |
| Occupations: | Baseball player |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | West Palm Beach |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American baseball player |
| Net Worth 2021: | 12 million |
