Bill Murphy (baseball)
| Bill Murphy | |||
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Murphy with the Chiba Lotte Marines
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| Camden Riversharks – No. 14 | |||
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Born: May 9, 1981 Anaheim, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 3, 2007, for the Arizona Diamondbacks | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2011 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 0–0 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.08 | ||
| Strikeouts | 8 | ||
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William R.W. "Bill" Murphy (born May 9, 1981 in Anaheim, California) is a left-handed professional baseball pitcher for the Camden Riversharks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Toronto Blue Jays, in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines and in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions.
Murphy attended Arlington High School in Riverside, California. After graduating from high school, Murphy was granted a baseball scholarship to CSU Northridge. Before attending college, he was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 24th round (738th overall) in the 1999 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign with them.
After attending California State University, Northridge for three years, Murphy was selected as the 98th overall pick in the third-round of the 2002 famous Moneyball draft.
He was drafted again by the Oakland Athletics in the third round (98th overall) of the 2002 "Moneyball" draft. He spent two seasons in the Athletics organization, pitching for the Vancouver Canadians (2002), Kane County Cougars (2003) and Midland RockHounds (2003). On June 10, 2003, Bill pitched a no-hitter for the Kane County Cougars.
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