Bill Gullickson
| Bill Gullickson | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: February 20, 1959 Marshall, Minnesota |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 26, 1979, for the Montreal Expos | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| August 7, 1994, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 162–136 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.93 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,279 | ||
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William Lee Gullickson (born February 20, 1959 in Marshall, Minnesota) is a former major league baseball pitcher who played for six different major-league teams, in Canada, the U.S. and Japan, during an 18-year professional career, of which 14 seasons were spent in MLB.
Gullickson was selected as the second player to be drafted in the first round of the June 1977 Major League Baseball draft by the Montreal Expos, out of Joliet Catholic Academy in Joliet, Illinois. He finished second behind Steve Howe in the National League Rookie of the Year voting in 1980, after a season in which he went 10–5 with an earned run average (ERA) of 3.00, and set a major-league record for most strikeouts in a game by a rookie, with 18. Gullickson held that record for 18 years, until Kerry Wood broke it with 20 strikeouts in 1998. Gullickson held the Montreal Expos-Washington Nationals all-time strikeout record for a single game with 18 strikeouts until Max Scherzer broke the record in 2016.
In 1981, he helped the Expos to their only division title with a 7–9, 2.81 record. The Expos lost the National League Championship Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games. Except for the 1981 strike season, Gullickson was in double figures in wins for every year onward.
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