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Erick Threets

Erick Threets
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Threets with the Charlotte Knights
Arizona Diamondbacks
Pitcher
Born: (1981-11-04) November 4, 1981 (age 35)
Hayward, California
Bats: Right Throws: Left
MLB debut
September 12, 2007, for the San Francisco Giants
MLB statistics
(through 2011 season)
Win–loss record 0-1
Earned run average 3.28
Strikeouts 13
Teams

Erick Morgan Threets (born November 4, 1981, in Hayward, California) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization. Erick has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants and Chicago White Sox. He attended Mendenhall Middle School and Granada High School in Livermore, California.

Threets was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 7th round of the 2000 MLB draft after playing at Modesto Junior College.

He was prospect number 20 in the Baseball America Prospect Handbook 2008 for the Giants, and his changeup was rated the best in the Giants' minor league system. Threets made his Major League Baseball debut with the San Francisco Giants in 2007. He appeared in 3 games in 2007 and 7 in 2008 for the Giants.

He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 2008 season and was assigned to the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes.

On January 14, 2010, Threets signed a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox.

On August 29, 2010, Threets injured his throwing arm after throwing a pitch against the New York Yankees. He was placed on the DL, and had Tommy John surgery shortly thereafter. He missed all of 2011. With the White Sox in 2010, he allowed no earned runs in 12 1/3 innings.


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