Here's what to know about Raleigh's East Coast upbringing, how baseball has always been a part of his life, and how he also starred as a two-sport athlete.

Raleigh is now doing things no catcher has done in the history of the sport. A career .218 hitter with a .740 OPS coming into this season, the switch-hitting slugger has vaulted into the American League MVP conversation with the Yankees’ Aaron Judge while mashing homers at a rate Ken Griffey Jr. never even achieved in Seattle.