Andrew Lorraine | |||
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Seattle Mariners | |||
Pitching Coach | |||
Born: Los Angeles, California |
August 11, 1972 |||
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MLB debut | |||
July 17, 1994, for the California Angels | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
September 26, 2002, for the Milwaukee Brewers | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Win-Loss | 6-11 | ||
Earned run average | 6.53 | ||
Strikeouts | 113 | ||
Teams | |||
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Andrew Jason Lorraine (born August 11, 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, who played from 1994-2002. He also played for the La New Bears in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League.
In high school, Lorraine was named the Los Angeles Times High School Pitcher of the Year, and a member of the USA Junior National Team. He was drafted, for a second time, out of Stanford University in the fourth round in 1993 by the California Angels. He pitched for the California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, and Milwaukee Brewers.
Lorraine was a pitching coach for the Seattle Mariners organization from 2009-16, and in December 2016 was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates as a professional scout. Lorraine has been the pitching coach of the Israel national baseball team, and was the pitching coach for Team Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic in South Korea and Japan in March 2017.
Lorraine was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Newhall, California, and is Jewish. He is the son of Marlene and Michael (Mike) Lorraine; his mother is from New Jersey and his father emigrated to the United States from Blackpool, England. Lorraine's paternal grandfather, who emigrated from Poland to England, was originally named Levin, but after his grandfather spent time in Alsace-Lorraine in France in World War II with the British army, Andrew Lorraine said: "He liked the name Lorraine, and changed his name...."