Brett Cecil

Brett Cecil
Cecil with the Blue Jays in 2015
St. Louis Cardinals – No. 21
Relief pitcher
Born: (1986-07-02) July 2, 1986 (age 30) Dunkirk, Maryland
Bats: Right Throws: Left
MLB debut
May 5, 2009, for the Toronto Blue Jays
MLB statistics (through April 8, 2017)
Win–loss record	41–43
Earned run average	4.25
Strikeouts	587
WHIP	1.35
Saves	11
Teams
Toronto Blue Jays (2009–2016) St. Louis Cardinals (2017–present)
Career highlights and awards
All-Star (2013)

Brett Aarion Cecil (born July 2, 1986) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Toronto Blue Jays. Cecil was drafted as the 38th overall pick in the 2007 MLB draft by the Blue Jays. He pitched for DeMatha Catholic High School and the Maryland Terrapins of the University of Maryland, College Park. In the summer of 2005 he pitched for the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League and threw the first and only no-hitter by a single pitcher in League history.

He first pitched in a professional league for the Class A Auburn Doubledays in 2007. In 2008, he had been promoted to the Dunedin Blue Jays, and later to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and finally to the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs. He received an invitation to attend spring training with the Blue Jays in 2009, but began the season in Triple-A.

Although he pitches left-handed, he is usually right-handed; pitching is "the only thing he does left-handed".

Cecil was born on July 2, 1986 in Dunkirk, which is in Calvert County, Maryland. He first starting playing baseball when he was 8 years old near his southern Maryland home. As he got older, his father would drive him more than 20 miles each way to White Marsh Park in Bowie, Prince George's County where there was more competition. As a teenager, he attended Dematha High School, also in Prince George's County. Upon graduation from Dematha, he stayed in Prince George's County and attended the University of Maryland.