finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1975 right yazoo city , mississippi 1965 august 9 .251 25 109 catcher chicago white sox batting average home runs runs batted in may 9 9 august 1946 http://bioproj.sabr.org/bp_ftp/images5/mosesjerry.jpg jerry moses
 boston red sox jerry moses right
jerry moses

gerald braheen moses -lrb- born august 9 , 1946 -rrb- is an american former professional baseball player .
a catcher , he signed a bonus contract with the boston red sox in and spent his early major league baseball career with the bosox , but over the course of his nine years in mlb moses would play for seven different teams .
he batted and threw right-handed , stood tall and weighed .
moses first appeared briefly with the red sox in at age 18 due to his bonus status -lrb- hitting a home run for his first hit , and also becoming the youngest player to hit a home run with the red sox -rrb- , but soon returned to the minor leagues for more seasoning .
he made the majors for good in , and in 1970 moses served as boston 's first-string catcher and was selected to the american league all-star team .
but after that season , he was included with red sox slugger tony conigliaro in a blockbuster trade to the california angels .
he did not win the angels ' starting catcher job and batted only .227 in 1971 , and then began his career as a journeyman , never spending more than one full season with the angels , cleveland indians , new york yankees , detroit tigers , san diego padres and chicago white sox .
he did serve as detroit 's regular catcher in 1974 .
all told , moses played in 386 major league games and collected 269 hits .
