Nick Tropeano | |||
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Tropeano during his tenure with the Oklahoma City RedHawks, triple-A affiliates of the Houston Astros, in 2014
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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim – No. 35 | |||
Pitcher | |||
Born: West Islip, New York |
August 27, 1990 |||
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MLB debut | |||
September 10, 2014, for the Houston Astros | |||
MLB statistics (through 2015 season) |
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Win–loss record | 7–7 | ||
Earned run average | 3.58 | ||
Strikeouts | 117 | ||
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Nicholas Paul Tropeano (born August 27, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Houston Astros. Prior to playing professionally, he attended Stony Brook University, where he played college baseball.
Tropeano attended West Islip High School in West Islip, New York, where he played baseball as a pitcher and American football as a quarterback. He enrolled at Stony Brook University, where he played college baseball for the Stony Brook Seawolves baseball team in the America East Conference. After his freshman season, Tropeano pitched for the Riverhead Tomcats in the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League, a collegiate summer baseball league, and was named its Most Valuable Player.
In his sophomore season, Tropeano had an 8–4 win–loss record with a 2.44 earned run average (ERA) and led the conference with 106 strikeouts en route to being named the America East co-Pitcher of the Year and a finalist for Pitcher of the Year by the College Baseball Hall of Fame. He pitched in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Cotuit Kettleers between his sophomore and junior seasons at Stony Brook. As a junior, Tropeano had a 12–1 win–loss record and a 1.84 ERA en route to a second conference Pitcher of the Year award (becoming the first pitcher to do so).