Luke Gregerson | |||||||||||||
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Gregerson with the San Diego Padres
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Houston Astros – No. 44 | |||||||||||||
Relief pitcher | |||||||||||||
Born: Park Ridge, Illinois |
May 14, 1984 |||||||||||||
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MLB debut | |||||||||||||
April 6, 2009, for the San Diego Padres | |||||||||||||
MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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Win–loss record | 33–33 | ||||||||||||
Earned run average | 2.84 | ||||||||||||
Strikeouts | 537 | ||||||||||||
Saves | 65 | ||||||||||||
WHIP | 1.05 | ||||||||||||
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Lucas John Gregerson (born May 14, 1984) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics. He owned the major league record for holds in a single season, with 40 until Joel Peralta of the Tampa Bay Rays broke the record with 41 holds in 2013. He attended J. Sterling Morton High School West in Berwyn, Illinois.
Gregerson was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 28th round of the 2006 Major League Baseball draft out of Saint Xavier University. He spent his first professional season between the Rookie-Level Johnson City Cardinals and the Short-Season State College Spikes in 2006. He went 0–1 with a 3.86 ERA in 15 games with Johnson City and 6–1 with a 1.72 ERA in 12 games with State College.
In 2007, Gregerson split the season between the Advanced-A Palm Beach Cardinals and the Double-A Springfield Cardinals. With Palm Beach he went 3–4 with a 1.97 ERA in 53 games and with Springfield he was perfect in his only inning of work.
Gregerson spent the entire 2008 season with Double-A Springfield of the Texas League. He went 7–6 with a 3.35 ERA, 10 saves in 75 1⁄3 innings pitched in 57 games.