Brian Lawrence
| Brian Lawrence | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: May 14, 1976 Fort Collins, Colorado |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 15, 2001, for the San Diego Padres | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 17, 2007, for the New York Mets | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 50–63 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.19 | ||
| Strikeouts | 597 | ||
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Brian Michael Lawrence (born May 14, 1976) is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He is currently pitching coach of the South Bend Cubs, a Class A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs.
Lawrence attended Carthage High School in Carthage, Texas. His senior year (1994) under head coach Scott Lee, he led the Bulldogs to the final four State Semi-Final game in Austin versus the Belton Tigers of Bell County, losing the game 9-5 on a walk-off grand-slam given up by his relief pitcher.
Lawrence attended Northwestern State University in .
In the 1998 Major League Baseball draft, the San Diego Padres selected Lawrence in the 17th round. After spending the rest of that year at the rookie and short-season Class A levels of the Padres' organization, he played a full season in 1999 with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, finishing with a 12-8 record and a 3.39 ERA.
During the 2000 season, Lawrence split time between the Double-A Mobile BayBears and the Triple-A Las Vegas Stars.
At the end of the 2001 season, Lawrence made his major league debut for the Padres. He ended up going 5-5 with a 3.45 ERA in 27 games (15 starts). The 2001 season was the only one in which the Padres used him extensively in a relief role.
By 2002, he had established himself in the Padres' starting rotation, and he made at least 31 starts with the Padres in each of the next four seasons. For three consecutive years (2002 to 2004), he logged more than 200 innings pitched, and he won at least ten games in each of those seasons.
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