Duane Below
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Below with the Detroit Tigers
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| Somerset Patriots – No. 36 | |||
| Starting pitcher | |||
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Born: November 15, 1985 Britton, Michigan |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 20, 2011, for the Detroit Tigers | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2014 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 2–4 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.27 | ||
| Strikeouts | 45 | ||
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Duane Arthur Below (/ˈbiːloʊ/ BEE-loh; born November 15, 1985) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Somerset Patriots of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Miami Marlins and Detroit Tigers. Below has also played in the KBO League for the Kia Tigers and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Prior to playing professionally, Below attended Britton-Macon Area School District, in Britton, Michigan and Lake Michigan College. He was drafted by the Tigers in the 19th round of the 2006 amateur draft and began his professional career that year. He is the first player from Britton to be on a major league roster.
Below pitched for two teams in 2006, the GCL Tigers (15 games) and the Oneonta Tigers (two games). Overall, he went 2–0 with a 2.09 ERA in 17 games (six starts). In 2007, he pitched for the West Michigan Whitecaps, going 13–5 with a 2.97 ERA in 26 starts, striking out 160 batters in 145⅔ innings. With the Lakeland Flying Tigers in 2008, he went 8–7 with a 4.46 ERA in 27 games (26 starts). He split 2009 between Lakeland (six games) and the Erie SeaWolves (two games), going 2–4 with a 2.70 ERA in eight starts overall. With Erie again in 2010, he went 7–12 with a 4.93 ERA in 28 starts.
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