Tim Salmon Career Biography and Statistics

Bio:
Tim Salmon was a contemporary baseball rarity-a player whose long career was spent with one team, the (now) L.A. Angels of Anaheim. He was selected by the California Angels in the third round of the 1989 amateur draft and played 14 seasons with the club before retiring after the 2006 season. Salmon is the Angels' all-time leader in home runs (299), runs scored (983), walks (965) and slugging percentage (.499) and second only to Garret Anderson in RBIs. Salmon holds the unique distinction of having the most home runs of any player never selected to the All-Star team. He was American League Rookie of the Year in 1993, but the “King Fish," as he was affectionately known to Angels'fans, made his most indelible mark on the franchise during the club's 2002 run to the World Series championship, when he hit two home runs in Game 2 against the San Francisco Giants. That was to be the apex of Salmon's career. In 2004, injuries reduced him to playing only 60 games, and surgery on his left knee and right rotator cuff sidelined him for the entire 2005 season. However, Salmon was determined to go out on his own terms, and rehabbed his way back onto the team with a strong spring training performance in 2006. He played that year as a DH and reserve outfielder.