Kyle Harris Higashioka is an American professional baseball catcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. He was drafted in the seventh round of the 2008 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut in 2017. In September 2020, he hit three home runs in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Kyle Harris Higashioka is an American professional baseball catcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. He was drafted in the seventh round of the 2008 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut in 2017. He played college baseball for the University of California, Berkeley. In September 2020, he hit three home runs in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays. He became the 24th Yankee to have a three home run game and the first to do so while batting ninth in the batting order.
His father, Ted, is a third-generation Japanese American. Kyle learned Japanese to connect with his heritage and better communicate with teammate Masahiro Tanaka. He also studied Spanish in high school and uses that language to communicate with Latin American teammates. He promised his mother he would earn a college degree and is taking classes in mechanical engineering at Orange Coast College.
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