Drew Smyly | |||||||||||||
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Smyly with the Tampa Bay Rays
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Seattle Mariners – No. 33 | |||||||||||||
Starting pitcher | |||||||||||||
Born: Maumelle, Arkansas |
June 13, 1989 |||||||||||||
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MLB debut | |||||||||||||
April 12, 2012, for the Detroit Tigers | |||||||||||||
MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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Win–loss record | 31–27 | ||||||||||||
Earned run average | 3.74 | ||||||||||||
Strikeouts | 552 | ||||||||||||
WHIP | 1.20 | ||||||||||||
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Medals
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Medal record | ||
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Men's baseball | ||
Representing United States | ||
Pan American Games | ||
2011 Guadalajara | National team |
Todd Andrew "Drew" Smyly (born June 13, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). Prior to his professional career, he played college baseball at the University of Arkansas. He was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in 2010 and made his major league debut in 2012. The Tigers traded Smyly to the Tampa Bay Rays in 2014, and the Rays traded him to the Mariners in 2017. Smyly has also competed for the United States national baseball team, winning the silver medal in the 2011 Pan American Games.
Smyly attended Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas and the University of Arkansas, where he played college baseball for the Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. As a redshirt freshman in 2009, Smyly came within two outs of pitching the first no-hitter at the NCAA Division I championship tournament in eighteen years.