Stephen Robert Holm is an American

United States

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 professional baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 catcher

Catcher

Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...

 who is a free agent.

Amateur career

Holm attended Sacramento's McClatchy High School, where he played shortstop

Shortstop

Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the...

. He earned 3rd Team All-American honors as a shortstop for Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University , based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States, is an interdenominational, Charismatic Christian, comprehensive university with an enrollment of about 3,790 students from 49 U.S. states along with a significant number of international students from 70 countries...

 in 2000.

San Franscico Giants

Holm was drafted by the Giants in the 17th round in . He beat Eliezer Alfonzo

Eliézer Alfonzo

Eliézer Jesús Alfonzo is a professional baseball catcher who is currently with the Colorado Rockies. He has played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball, most recently in 2011 with the Colorado Rockies. He bats and throws right-handed. Eliézer is the second cousin of former MLB star...

 and Guillermo Rodríguez

Guillermo Rodríguez (baseball)

Guillermo Segundo Rodríguez Pérez is a retired Major League Baseball catcher who now works as an instructional coach within the San Francisco Giants minor league system....

 to earn a position on the major-league roster in spring training

Spring training

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, but got sent down for Eliezer Alfonzo

Eliézer Alfonzo

Eliézer Jesús Alfonzo is a professional baseball catcher who is currently with the Colorado Rockies. He has played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball, most recently in 2011 with the Colorado Rockies. He bats and throws right-handed. Eliézer is the second cousin of former MLB star...

 on July 1, 2008. He got re-called on July 23, 2008.

After playing for a short period of time on the Giants in 2009, he was sent back to Triple-A Fresno

Fresno

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. Eli Whiteside

Eli Whiteside

Dustin Eli Whiteside is a Major League Baseball catcher for the San Francisco Giants.-Baltimore Orioles :...

 then became the back-up catcher

Catcher

Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...

 when Holm was unable to be re-called. Steve Holm was taken off the 40 man roster to clear room for Matt Downs

Matt Downs

Matthew Russell "Matt" Downs is a Major League Baseball second baseman for the Houston Astros.Downs graduated from Bibb County High School in Centreville, AL and he played a year playing as a pitcher/infielder for Shelton State Community College in Alabama in 2003.He was drafted in the 25th round...

, who replaced 2nd baseman Emmanuel Burriss

Emmanuel Burriss

Emmanuel "Manny" Allen Burriss is a Major League Baseball second baseman for the San Francisco Giants. He is a switch-hitter who throws right-handed and has played second base, shortstop, and third base.-Early life:...

.

Minnesota Twins

In December 2010, Holm signed a minor league contract with the Minnesota Twins

Minnesota Twins

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.

On April 14, 2011, Holm was called up to the major leagues during a Joe Mauer

Joe Mauer

Joseph Patrick Mauer is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Minnesota Twins. He is the only catcher in Major League history to win three batting titles...

 injury. After being sent down, he was designated for assignment on May 15. After the 2011 season, he elected for free agency.

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