finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1992 right houston , texas 1990 october 3 .171 1 1 catcher texas rangers batting average home runs rbi september 20 22 september 1962 ray stephens
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ray stephens

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carl ray stephens , jr. is a former major league baseball catcher who played for the st. louis cardinals and texas rangers between 1990 and 1992 .
born on september 22 , 1962 in houston , texas , stephens attended bradley central high school in cleveland , tennessee .
he attended troy state university and middle georgia college .
he threw and batted right-handed , was and weighed 190 pounds .
drafted by the cardinals in the 6th round of the 1985 amateur draft , stephens was not a very successful minor leaguer when it came to hitting-he had a career minor league average of .238 - and in 1988 with louisville , he batted only .189 in 115 games .
nevertheless , on september 20 , 1990 at the age of 27 , stephens made his major league debut .
even though he went 1 for 3 in his major league debut with his first major league hit being a home run , his career never quite panned out-he hit only .133 in his rookie year -lrb- his second of two hits that season was a double , though -rrb- .
his career average ended up being .171 .
in the field , he made zero errors over the course of his career for a 1.000 fielding percentage .
stephens played his final game on october 3 , 1992 at the age of 29 .
