Ryan Speier
| Ryan Speier | |
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| Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – No. 64 | |
| Relief pitcher | |
| Born: July 24, 1979 Frankfort, Kentucky |
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| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
| MLB debut | |
| April 4, 2005 for the Colorado Rockies | |
| Career statistics (through 2009 season) |
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| Win-Loss | 7-3 |
| Earned run average | 3.99 |
| Strikeouts | 58 |
| Teams | |
Ryan Andrew Speier (born July 24, 1979, in Frankfort, Kentucky) is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher currently in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles for Nippon Professional Baseball. He played with the Rockies for his entire Major League career, from 2005 when he was called up to July 24, 2009 when he was designated for assignment.[1]
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[edit] Early life
[edit] High School
Speier was a standout pitcher at West Springfield High School in Springfield, Virginia along with Joe Saunders.
[edit] College
Speier attended Radford University in Virginia, where he was a standout pitcher for the Highlanders baseball team prior to being signed by the Rockies in 2001 as an undrafted free agent.
[edit] Professional career
Speier currently holds the single season saves record in the Cape Cod Baseball League [1] with which he set in 2001 while playing for the Bourne Braves and not giving up an earned run [2] in the process. Speier is a former Minor League Rolaids Relief Award winner (2004) and also currently holds the single season saves record for the Texas League (AA) with 37. He was drafted and remained in the Colorado Rockies organization until the 2010 season which explains why his numbers on the road are significantly better than at home during that time period. Speier sports a 3.22 ERA and 1.212 WHIP [3] away from Coors Field and is praised for his ability to keep the ball in the ball park by only allowing four home runs in 991⁄3 innings [4]. He is also a significantly more productive second half pitcher with a 2.38 ERA and 1.28 WHIP [5] during his career with the Colorado Rockies.
On December 11, 2009, Speier signed a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals.
He played at Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of Atlantic League in 2010.
On February 16, 2011, he signed with Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan.
[edit] References
- ^ "Rockies send Speier out". Inside The Rockies. 2009-07-24. http://www.insidetherockies.com/2009/07/24/rockies-send-speier-out/. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
[edit] External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
- player profile on Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles official website
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Colorado Rockies players
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Baseball players from Kentucky
- Cape Cod Baseball players
- Bourne Braves players
- Radford Highlanders baseball players
- Asheville Tourists players
- Tulsa Drillers players
- Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players
- American expatriate baseball players in Japan
