Sean Doolittle
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Doolittle pitching for the Oakland Athletics in 2016
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| Oakland Athletics – No. 62 | |||
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Born: September 27, 1986 Rapid City, South Dakota |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 5, 2012, for the Oakland Athletics | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 12–13 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.07 | ||
| Strikeouts | 269 | ||
| Saves | 33 | ||
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| Men’s baseball | ||
Representing  United States
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| World University Championship | ||
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2006 Havana | Team |
Sean Robert Doolittle (born September 26, 1986) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was an MLB All-Star in 2014.
Doolittle grew up in Tabernacle Township, New Jersey, where he played Babe Ruth Baseball, and excelled as a pitcher.
He attended Shawnee High School, in Medford, New Jersey where he was a stand-out pitcher and broke the state record for most strikeouts in a game. A great hitter, Sean led Shawnee to a state championship. Doolittle played for the University of Virginia as both a starting pitcher and first baseman. He formerly held the record for wins in a career for a Virginia pitcher — 22 — which has since been passed by Danny Hultzen. In 2005 and 2006, Doolittle was named to the USA National (Collegiate) Baseball Team.
The Oakland Athletics selected Doolittle in the first round, with the 41st overall selection, in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, as a first baseman/outfielder. He made his professional debut on June 18, 2007 and was expected to make his major league debut in 2009. His brother, Ryan Doolittle is also a part of the Athletics' farm system.
His teammates during his college days were Ryan Zimmerman and Michael Schwimer.
Despite being injured for most of the 2009 season, Doolittle was ranked tenth in Oakland's farm system according to Baseball America. Doolittle missed the entire 2010 season while rehabbing from 2 knee surgeries. In the 2011 offseason, he was placed on Oakland's 40-man roster to be protected from the Rule 5 draft. After missing more than two years, Doolittle converted back to pitching, making his professional pitching debut in the instructional league in Arizona in 2011.
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