Daniel Norris (baseball)
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Norris with the Detroit Tigers in 2015
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| Detroit Tigers – No. 44 | |||
| Starting pitcher | |||
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Born: April 25, 1993 Johnson City, Tennessee |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 5, 2014, for the Toronto Blue Jays | |||
| MLB statistics (through May 19, 2017) |
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| Win–loss record | 9–7 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.92 | ||
| Strikeouts | 159 | ||
| WHIP | 1.41 | ||
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Daniel David Norris (born April 25, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously pitched in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays drafted Norris in the second round (74th overall) of the 2011 MLB Draft.Baseball America rated Norris as the 91st best prospect in baseball prior to the 2012 season. He was ranked as the number 4 prospect in the Blue Jays minor league organization on July 26, 2013, when the revised Top 100 Prospects list was released.
Norris began his career with the Rookie-Advanced Bluefield Blue Jays and Low-A Vancouver Canadians in 2012, where he pitched to a combined 2–4 record, an earned run average of 8.44, and a 1.78 WHIP.
In 2013, Norris split time with the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts and High-A Dunedin Blue Jays, and finished the season with a 2–7 record, but made a major improvement with his ERA, which dropped to 3.97.
Norris began the 2014 season in Dunedin, and earned a 3–0 record with an ERA of 0.80 through his first 9 starts. On June 3, 2014, he was announced as the Pipeline Pitching Prospect of the Month of May. He posted a 1–0 record and a 0.68 ERA over 5 starts to win the award. On June 15, he was called up to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats after posting a 6–0 record, 1.22 ERA, and 1.025 WHIP in 13 starts with Dunedin. Norris appeared in the 2014 All-Star Futures Game on June 24, 2014.
As of the 2014 midseason update, he was considered the Blue Jays' top prospect, and 25th overall prospect in baseball by Baseball America. With New Hampshire, Norris had a 3–1 win-loss record, 4.54 ERA, and struck out 49 in 35 2⁄3 innings before he was promoted to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on August 7. Making his Triple-A debut pitching in the first game of a double-header on August 10, Norris earned the win, pitching six innings against the Durham Bulls and gave up only two hits while striking out 10, including Wil Myers, on a rehabilitation assignment for the Tampa Bay Rays. In his following start, he struck out a career-high 13 over 5 2⁄3 innings, making him the first pitcher in Bisons history to have back-to-back starts with at least 10 strikeouts. Norris pitched five innings and earned his third win in three tries on August 21, against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. He struck out nine, walked three, and gave up one hit, a home run. While speculation circulated that the Blue Jays intended to move Norris to the bullpen following his third Triple-A start, they instead announced on August 22 that he would continue in a starter's role. In total for 2014, he posted a 12–2 record with a 2.53 ERA and 163 strikeouts over 124 2⁄3 innings. On September 3, Baseball America named him to their First Team All-Stars for 2014. He was named to the MLB All-Prospect Team on September 26.
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