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This article is about the former Major League Baseball pitcher. For the Canadian football player, see Dave Fleming (Canadian football). For the sports announcer, see Dave Flemming.
Dave Fleming
Pitcher
Born: (1969-11-07) November 7, 1969 (age 55)
Jackson Heights, New York
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
MLB debut
August 6, 1991, for the Seattle Mariners
Last MLB appearance
September 30, 1995, for the Kansas City Royals
MLB statistics
Win–loss record38–32
Earned run average4.67
Strikeouts303
Teams

David Anthony Fleming (born November 7, 1969) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played from 1991 to 1995, mostly for the Seattle Mariners of the Major League Baseball (MLB).

Career

Fleming was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, and went to high school in Mahopac, New York. He pitched for the University of Georgia, leading them to a College World Series title in 1990.[1]

Fleming was selected in the third round of the 1990 Major League Baseball draft by the Seattle Mariners. He won a career high 17 games, including 9 in a row, for the Mariners in his rookie season of 1992. His ERA that year was 3.39, and he took third place in the AL Rookie of the Year voting (behind winner Pat Listach).

After going 29-15 in his first two MLB seasons, Fleming began to struggle with arm trouble. On 7 July 1995, he was traded by the Mariners to the Kansas City Royals for Bob Milacki. He pitched only 9 games for the Royals before undergoing surgery, and never pitched in the Major Leagues again.

Fleming is currently a 5th grade teacher at Chatfield-LoPresti School in Seymour, CT.[2]

References

  1. ^ Street, Jim. "Where've you gone, Dave Fleming?" Archived 2009-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, Seattle Mariners, June 10, 2003. Accessed May 28, 2009. "The ace of the '92 staff was Dave Fleming, a quiet southpaw born in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, N.Y., who went from College World Series star at the University of Georgia to the Major Leagues in a blink of an eye."
  2. ^ "Grade 5 - Seymour Public School District". www.seymourschools.org. Retrieved 2018-02-27.


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