In the minor leagues he was a fine defensive catcher, throwing out an incredible 43% of would be base stealers.
He helped his team to a first half Florida State League title, then in the second half when the teams main catcher went down, he raised his average a good ninety points (.333) and was named to the All Star Team. The next year he hit .317 at AA New Britain & tore up the Venezuelan Winter League as well.
In 2010 he was invited to Spring training & hit well, batting over .400 showing off some fine defense too. But rather than have him sitting on the bench behind Joe Mauer, he was sent down to AAA Rochester. He got his callup at the end of April when Mauer went down with injury.
Trivia: Ramos made Twins history when he collected four hits in his MLB debut, in an 8-3 win over the Cleveland Indians. He matched Twins legend, Kirby Puckett 's debut in 1984. A week later Mauer was back & Ramos back at AAA.
Nats Career: In July, he was traded to the Washington Nationals along with Joe Testa for closer Matt Clapps. In 2011 he batted .267 with 15 HRs 22 doubles & 52 RBIs making Baseball Americas All Rookie team at Catcher, while coming in fourth in the Rookie of the Year voting.

Quotes- Wilson Ramos: "What they did was laugh, joke about my pain. I'm very thankful, and I feel like I've been born again

2014 Post Season: With all his injuries he only played in one post season, seeing action in the NLDS batting .118 in four games (2-17).
In 2015 he played in 128
games, 15 HRs 16 doubles with 68 RBIs but only batting .228. Defensively he was second in the NL throwing out 44% of would be base stealers, after coming in third the previous year at 37%. His .995 fielding % was 5th best & the next year he 2nd with a .997%.
He rebounded at the plate in 2016, batting .307 (9th best in the NL) with career highs in HRs 22 doubles 25 RBIs 80 hits 148 & on base % .354 as well as 131 games played. That year he made his first All Star appearance & won a Silver Slugger Award. Once again injury struck as he tore his ACL on September 26th, missing the post season.
In 2018 he began the year with the Tampa Rays, playing in 78 games batting .297 with 14 HRs 14 doubles 53 RBIs. He made the AL All Star team, his second All Star election but missed action nursing another injury.

Although the Mets were chasing JT Realmuto from Miami, the asking price was too high. The Mets said we'll do business some where else.
They had also thought about Yasmani Grandal from Los Angeles but he didn't sign. So The Mets chose to go with Ramos, as a much needed improvement behind the plate & a run producer.
Mets Career 2019: In the second game of the season, Ramos doubled off his old battery mate, Steven Strasburg, driving in two runs in the 1st inning of a 10-8 Mets win. He would hit safely in his first seven Mets games & drive in five runs. In April he would hit just one HR but drive in 17 runs & have five multi RBI games.
On May 14th, once again facing his old Nats team mates, he hit a 1st inning grand slam off Jeremy Hellickson, leading the Mets to a 6-2 win.

In June he hit HRs in back to back games he played against Arizona & San Francisco. He did it again in late June in Chicago & Philadelphia getting his average up to .280.
Family Surprise: On June 13th Ramos was in the on deck circle at Citi Field, when his wife held up a sign that she was pregnant with their third child, quite a surprise for the catcher. He struck out looking.

His throwing out base runners caught stealing fell to 14%. Jacob deGrom & Noah Syndergaard even preferred pitching to back up catcher Tomas Nido, instead of Ramos. The whole team was at a low point & struggling.

He then collected two hits including a two run 6th inning single, in a 4-0 Mets win where Zack Wheeler dominated after not being dealt at the trade deadline. The next night he drove in yet another run on a ground out, his 49th RBI of the year.

Ramos collected four hits with a total of six RBIs. His first was an RBI single in the 1st. In the 8th the Mets were down 3-2, when Ramos connected for a two run HR off Kyle Crick.

Two games later on August 6th, Ramos hit his 12th HR of the year, a 3rd inning three run shot leading the Mets to a 5-0 win behind Zack Wheeler's eight shut out innings.
Quotes- Manager Mickey Callaway: I think its good that he's gone through spurts where he has been really hot & obviously really hot right now. He has a knack to driving in runs & it's all due to the fact that he can really do a good job of staying up the middle, staying on the ball & hitting it the other way when he needs to".
Ramos now had 58 RBIs, driving in runs was one of the reasons the Mets signed him for.
On August 9th, he singled in the bottom of the 9th off the Nats Sean Doolittle, with the Mets down 6-3. Todd Frazier followed with a three run HR to tie & Michael Conforto won it with a walk off hit. It was the Mets seventh straight win & 14th win in 15.
On his 32nd birthday he hit a HR to tie up an important game against the Washington Nats. His HR was a back to back shot following J.D. Davis. From there on, Ramos continued a hitting streak that went on for 20 games (as of 8/28/19).
It was the longest hitting streak in baseball that year & the longest hit streak in three years as well.
Ramos had another four hit game on August 15th, driving in a run in a 10-8 Mets win over the Braves in Atlanta. On August 22nd he drove in both runs in a Mets 2-0 win over the Cleveland Indians completing a three game sweep.
Ramos would hit doubles in four of his next five games. On September 6th, he doubled in the 8th inning, extended the Mets to a 4-2 lead after Pete Alonso put them ahead with his single.
Two games later he hit his 14th HR of the year, doubled and collected three hits in a Mets loss to the Phils. He had two more hits with another extra base hit the next night.
The Mets slowly fell out of the wild card race after a good run, Ramos would only drive in wo more runs on the season.

Behind the plate, he threw out 15% of would be base stealers & allowed the most stolen bases in the league (94).

Family: Wilson & his wife have three children. Ramos also has two brothers who also play professional baseball. His brother Nathaniel, was also in the New York Mets organization.
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