Kurt Kiyoshi Suzuki (born October 4, 1983 in
Wailuku, Hawaii) is a Major League Baseball catcher
for the Oakland Athletics. The Athletics drafted him
in the second round of the 2004 amateur draft and
assigned to the Single-A Vancouver Canadians, where
he batted .297 and committed just one error in 46
games. He joined the major league club on June 9,
2007 and made his debut three days later as a pinch
hitter in a game against the Houston Astros.