Patrick Lance Borders (born May 14, 1963 in Columbus, Ohio) is a Major League Baseball player best remembered for being the World Series Most Valuable Player in 1992.
A catcher, Borders was brought up in the Toronto Blue Jays system and made his major league debut in 1988, playing in 56 games. Over the next few seasons he earned the full-time position behind the plate, and he was a cornerpiece of the World Series championship 1992 and 1993 teams. In the 1992 Series he hit .450 with one home run en route to winning the World Series MVP award.
Borders left the Jays as a free agent after the 1994 but never found a permanent home like Toronto had been for him in his seven years there. Over the following decade he played for the Kansas City Royals (1994), Houston Astros (1995), St. Louis Cardinals (1996), California Angels (1996), Chicago White Sox (1996), Cleveland Indians (1997 - 1999), Toronto Blue Jays (1999), Seattle Mariners (2001 - 2004) and Minnesota Twins (2004), never playing in more than 55 games for any one team during a season. Over his career, he has a .255 batting average, 68 home runs, 339 RBI and 277 runs. He was signed by the Milwaukee Brewers to a minor-league contract before the 2005 season.
Borders also won an Olympic Games gold medal with the United States' baseball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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