# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-j-pierzynski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:07:31.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-j-pierzynski"
name: "A. J. Pierzynski"
slug: "a-j-pierzynski"
description: "Anthony John Pierzynski is an American former professional baseball player and current television sports presenter. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher with the Minnesota Twins (1998–2003), San Francisco Giants (2004), Chicago White Sox (2005–2012), Texas Rangers (2013), Boston Red Sox (2014), St. Louis Cardinals (2014) and Atlanta Braves (2015–2016). Pierzynski is one of only thirteen catchers in Major League history to reach 2,000 hits in his career."
tagline: "American baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A.J._Pierzynski_April_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1976-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.86
  momentum:             2.019778019917391
  historical:           10.78785866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1797448/"
    handle:    "nm1797448"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C2%B7J%C2%B7%E7%9A%AE%E7%88%BE%E8%BE%9B%E6%96%AF%E5%9F%BA"
    title: "A·J·皮爾辛斯基"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%89._%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "اى. جيه. پيرزينسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Pierzynski"
    title: "A.J. Pierzynski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Pierzynski"
    title: "A. J. Pierzynski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Pierzynski"
    title: "A. J. Pierzynski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Pierzynski"
    title: "A.J. Pierzynski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J.%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC"
    title: "A.J.ピアジンスキー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._%ED%94%BC%EC%96%B4%EC%A7%84%EC%8A%A4%ED%82%A4"
    title: "A. J. 피어진스키"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Pierzynski"
    title: "A.J. Pierzynski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J._Pierzynski"
    title: "A.J. Pierzynski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Pierzynski"
    title: "A. J. Pierzynski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q278305"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1215315"
    title: "A.J. Pierzynski"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump