Jermaine Van Buren
| Jermaine Van Buren | |||
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| Relief pitcher | |||
| Born: July 2, 1980 | |||
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 31, 2005, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| August 19, 2006, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 1-2 | ||
| Earned run average | 9.00 | ||
| Strikeouts | 11 | ||
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Jermaine Russell Van Buren (born July 2, 1980 in Laurel, Mississippi) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago Cubs in 2005 and the Boston Red Sox in 2006.
Van Buren graduated from Hattiesburg High School, where he earned Mississippi Player of the Year honors in 1998 as a senior. He was drafted in the 2nd round of the 1998 draft by the Colorado Rockies.
Van Buren spent four years playing Single-A baseball for the Rockies before being released in 2003 and signing with the Fort Worth Cats of the independent Central Baseball League.
He would get a second shot at the major leagues when the Chicago Cubs signed him as a free agent in 2004. He would quickly go from being a low-ranked prospect to becoming part of the Cubs Triple-A team in Iowa.
In 2005, he finished second in the Pacific Coast League with 25 saves and posted up a 1.98 ERA with 65 strikeouts in 54 2⁄3 innings pitched before receive a late call-up to the majors. He appeared in six games for the Cubs, ending with a 0-2 record, a 3.00 ERA, nine walks, and six strikeouts in 6.0 innings. At the end of the season, he was dealt by Chicago to the Boston Red Sox in exchange for minor league outfielder Matt Ciaramella.
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