Jerry Blevins
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Blevins with the Mets in 2016
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| New York Mets – No. 39 | |||
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Born: September 6, 1983 Johnson City, Tennessee |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 16, 2007, for the Oakland Athletics | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 20–11 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.44 | ||
| Strikeouts | 361 | ||
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| Men’s baseball | ||
Representing  United States
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| Baseball World Cup | ||
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2007 Tianmu | National team |
Jerry Richard Blevins (born September 6, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Oakland Athletics and Washington Nationals.
After graduating from Arcadia High School in, Arcadia, Ohio, Blevins walked on to the University of Dayton baseball team, where he pitched for two years. He had a 7–4 record in 21 games while playing for Dayton.
Blevins was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 17th (516th overall) round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed with the club on June 23 of that year, and began his pro career with the Single-A Boise Hawks, where he pitched 23 games.
In 2005, he pitched for the Single-A Peoria Chiefs, but returned to Boise for the 2006 season. In 2006, he also pitched for the Single-A Daytona Cubs and the Double-A West Tenn Diamond Jaxx.
Blevins began the 2007 season with the Daytona Cubs. He pitched in 15 games there and had a 1–0 record with a 0.38 ERA before being promoted to the Double-A Tennessee Smokies on May 15, 2007. He pitched in 23 games for the Smokies, in which he had a 2–2 record with a 1.53 ERA. Blevins pitched a total of 38 games in the Cubs organization and had a 3–2 record with a 1.02 ERA.
Blevins was traded to the Oakland Athletics, along with catcher Rob Bowen, for catcher Jason Kendall on July 16, 2007.
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