Jake Diekman
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Diekman with the Philadelphia Phillies
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| Texas Rangers – No. 41 | |||
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Born: January 21, 1987 Wymore, Nebraska |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 15, 2012, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 13–13 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.59 | ||
| Strikeouts | 304 | ||
| WHIP | 1.38 | ||
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Jacob Tanner Diekman (born January 21, 1987) is an American professional baseball pitcher with the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Philadelphia Phillies. He throws left-handed. Diekman grew up in Wymore, Nebraska, where he attended a high school too small for a baseball team, so he instead focused on golf, playing baseball in the summer for an American Legion team. He played two seasons of baseball in college at Doane College and Cloud County Community College respectively before attending a junior college baseball showcase, at which he was offered a scholarship to play Division I baseball. However, in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, the Philadelphia Phillies selected him in the 30th round, and he ultimately signed.
With the Phillies, Diekman began as a starting pitcher and progressed through a few levels of the Phillies' farm system in his first two years as a starter before adjusting his mechanics and lowering his arm slot to throw sidearm out of the bullpen as a relief pitcher. The adjustment worked, and helped him move through the remaining levels of the Phillies' farm system and, in 2012, making his major league debut. Over the next two seasons, he split time between the major league Phillies and their Triple-A (AAA) affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, though while he was with the major league team, was considered one of the "lone bright spots" in both 2012 and 2013. Diekman throws a fastball in the mid-90s (mph), a slider, and an occasional changeup; his fastball is among the fastest of any left-handed reliever in the major leagues.
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