Ryan Cole Lavarnway is an American professional baseball catcher with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He attended Yale University, where in 2007 he won the NCAA batting title by hitting .467, and led the NCAA with an .873 slugging percentage. That year, Lavarnway also set the Ivy League record with a 25-game hitting streak. In addition, he set the Ivy League all-time career home run record, with 33. Lavarnway was drafted by the Red Sox in 2008, and advanced through their minor league system to Class AAA level Pawtucket in 2011. He was called up to the major leagues by the Red Sox on August 18, 2011, and has divided his playing time between Pawtucket and the majors since then. In 2011, Baseball America named Lavarnway the best power prospect in the International League and named him the catcher on its 2011 Minor League All-Star Team, and the Red Sox organization named him co-winner of their Offensive Player of the Year award Baseball America. Entering the 2012 season he was the No. 9 prospect in the Red Sox system according to Baseball America, and that season he was the International League All Star starting catcher, and a post-season IL All-Star. [More at Wikipedia]

August 7th, 1987 in Burbank (Age 37)