John Rheinecker
| John Rheinecker | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: May 29, 1979 Belleville, Illinois |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 22, 2006, for the Texas Rangers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 28, 2007, for the Texas Rangers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win-loss record | 8-9 | ||
| Earned run average | 5.65 | ||
| Strikeouts | 68 | ||
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John Philip Rheinecker (born May 29, 1979) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
Rheinecker attended Gibault Catholic High School in Waterloo, Illinois, and was a student and a letterman in baseball. He grew up in Hecker, Illinois and first starred at the Hecker Dome. In baseball, as a senior, he batted .438 and as a pitcher, posted a 7-11 record and a 2.49 ERA. His summers were spent planting Christmas Trees.
Prior to playing professional baseball, Rheinecker attended Belleville Area Community College and Southwest Missouri State. He was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in 2001.
After signing with the A's, Rheinecker spent the next four seasons in the organization's farm system. On March 31, 2006, Oakland traded him (along with infielder Freddie Bynum) to the Texas Rangers for troubled pitcher Juan Dominguez.
A southpaw starting pitcher, Rheinecker made his major league debut April 22, 2006, in a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. On his 27th birthday (May 29, 2006, which was also Memorial Day), Rheinecker made his second start for the Rangers, pitching 8 1⁄3 shutout innings and earning his first major league win. For most of the 2006 season, he was shuttled back and forth between the Rangers and their Triple-A affiliate, the Oklahoma RedHawks.
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