Jacob Spencer Smith (born June 5, 1983) is an American former professional baseball catcher. Smith attended

East Carolina University East Carolina University (ECU) is a public university, public research university in Greenville, North Carolina. It is the fourth largest university in North Carolina. Founded on March 8, 1907, as a Normal school, teacher training school, East ...

, where he played for the

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team. He won the

Johnny Bench Award The Buster Posey Award, formerly known as the Johnny Bench Award, was created in 2000 to honor college baseball's top catcher in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The award is administered by the Greater Wichita Area Sp ...

as the top collegiate catcher in 2006.http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=557365 Smith was drafted by the

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in the 21st round of the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft.

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1983 births Living people American expatriate baseball players in Canada Arizona League Athletics players Baseball catchers East Carolina Pirates baseball players Kane County Cougars players Baseball players from Greensboro, North Carolina Vancouver Canadians players {{US-baseball-catcher-1980s-stub