Baseball

Sports Stats  Sport:            Baseball           Position(s)Played: Pitcher  DOB:  03/13/1979  Height  6'0"  Weight  210  Bats Left  Throws  Left Wins 97 Losses 46 ERA 3.21 Games: 259 Innings Pitched 1361.0 Hits 1113  Runs 519  Earned Runs 486  Home Runs  152  Walks 377 Strike-Outs   1433

Biography & Career Highlights Attended Saint Anthonys High School where he played baseball and soccer . . . was named Athlete of the Year in 1999 . . . participates in Columbian Squires, a Catholic Youth Organization and is in the Honor Society. Second career Opening Day start, April 2 vs. Baltimore...sixth career complete game and fourth career shutout, June 19 at New York season-high five-game win-streak, going 5-0, 1.03 (35.0 ip, 4 er) in five starts, June 19-July 13...pitched 6-plus innings in six consecutive starts, going 3-2, 3.60 (40.0 ip, 16 er), April 2-29...established club record with career-high 17 strikeouts, August 19 vs. Texas and was named the  Player of the Month by Division One Baseball...earned his 15th win September 9 at Chicago after tossing 7.0 innings, allowing just one run, striking out 10...after his September 26 start in Detroit was cut short due to rain (3.0 innings), his streak of 123 straight starts with 5.0-or-more innings came to an end...the streak started on May 29, 2004 and ran through September 21, 2007...his 123 straight starts of 5.0-or-more innings was the longest such streak in League history....led club in wins (15), innings pitched (219.0) and strikeouts (235)...hitters swung and missed at 27.6% of his pitches, the highest in Division One...finished the season second in Division One in strikeouts, third in opponents batting-average-against (.225) and strikeouts/per 9.0 innings (9.66), fifth in road ERA (2.95) and day ERA (2.52), sixth in innings pitched, seventh in ERA (3.33), tied for seventh in quality starts (21) and 11th in walks/per 9.0 innings (2.14)...his 33 home runs allowed led Division One...had seven starts with 10-or-more strikeouts.