Rick Helling
| Rick Helling | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: December 15, 1970 Devils Lake, North Dakota |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 10, 1994, for the Texas Rangers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 9, 2006, for the Milwaukee Brewers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 93–81 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.68 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,058 | ||
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Richard Allen Helling (born December 15, 1970) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
Helling attended Lakota High School in Lakota, North Dakota for three years, before graduating from Shanley High School in Fargo, North Dakota. He was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was a three-time All-Conference honoree.
Helling played college ball at Stanford University. While there he joined Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. He was selected by the Texas Rangers in the 1st round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft.
Writer Chuck Klosterman describes Rick Helling as his personal archenemy.
Helling was an early critic of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball, warning the Players Union as early as 1998 that drugs were a problem in the sport; he served as a Union Executive Board Member from 1999 to 2007.
Helling was a member of two World Series Championship teams: the 1997 World Series Champion Florida Marlins and the 2003 World Series Champion Florida Marlins. Despite being traded to the Texas Rangers earlier in the 1997 season, which meant he did not participate in the Marlins' World Series win that year, he was awarded a World Series ring by his former teammates because of his half-season contribution.
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