Paul Antony Lo Duca was born on the 12th April 1972, in Brooklyn, New York City USA, and is a former professional baseball player who is widely recognized as a catcher with the Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers, Florida Marlins, New York Mets and Washington Nationals. Paul Lo Duca is nowadays best known for being a horse racing analyst for the TVG Network.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this former athlete has accumulated so far? How rich Paul Lo Duca is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of Paul Lo Duca’s net worth, as of early 2017, exceeds the sum of $30 million, largely acquired through his professional baseball career which was active between 1998 and 2010, and supplemented by his current TV broadcasting role.
Paul Lo Duca Net Worth $30 million
Although he was born in New York, Paul grew up in Glendale, Arizona, where he attended Apollo High School. He later enrolled at Glendale Community College, where he served as a walk-on player for its baseball team. After two years, in 1993 Paul transferred to Arizona State University where he was named The Sporting News Player of the Year in his rookie season. Despite setting ASU baseball records with 129 hits with an average batting score of .446, the next several years he spent circuiting in the minor leagues. Having been drafted in the 25th round of the 1993 Amateur Draft and was signed by Vero Beach Dodgers. In 1995, Lo Duca was loaned to Australian Baseball League’s Adelaide Giants where he stayed ’til 1996. His professional baseball career officially began in 1998 when he signed with Los Angeles Dodgers, although he didn’t play regularly until 2001; his hitting proved to be his strength, including a 25-hit streak in 2003, the second longest in Dodger’s history. This venture provided the basis for Paul Lo Duca’s net worth.
In 2004, Lo Duca signed with Florida Marlins with which he spent only one season before he was traded to New York Mets in 2006. Later that year, he was selected for the All-Star Team, scoring an average of .318 with a career high of on-base percentage – .355. In 2008, Lo Duca signed a one-year contract, worth $5 million with Washington Nationals for which he played ’til July 2008. Subsequently, he returned to minor league, and then the Florida Marlins. He welcomed the end of 2008 season as a free agent, and skipped the entire 2009 season. In 2010, Lo Duca was briefly signed to Colorado Rockies as a backup catcher, but was released in May 2010. Certainly, all these engagements left an impact on Paul Lo Duca’s net worth.
Since June 2009, Lo Duca serves as a horse racing analyst for the TVG network.
In 2007 Lo Duca was in media focus after it was stated in the Mitchell Report that he was using steroids throughout the season which he publically confessed to in 2013, stating that he was using performance-enhancing substances.
When it comes to his personal life, Paul Lo Duca married former Playboy model, Sonia Flores, in 2000, with whom he has a daughter, but the couple filed for divorce in 2006.
