Tim Belcher
| Tim Belcher | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: October 19, 1961 Mount Gilead, Ohio |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 6, 1987, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 30, 2000, for the Anaheim Angels | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 146–140 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.16 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,519 | ||
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Timothy Wayne Belcher (born October 19, 1961) is a retired Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. He won the Sporting News Rookie Pitcher of the Year Award in 1988 for the National League. He was also the pitching coach for the Cleveland Indians.
During his 14-year baseball career, Belcher pitched from 1987–2000 for seven different ballclubs: the Los Angeles Dodgers (1987–1991), Cincinnati Reds (1992–1993), Chicago White Sox (1993), Detroit Tigers (1994), Seattle Mariners (1995), Kansas City Royals (1996–1998), and Anaheim Angels (1999–2000).
Belcher played high school baseball at Highland High School and intercollegiate varsity baseball at Mount Vernon Nazarene College in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He was the first draft pick in the 1983 Major League Baseball Draft, selected by the Minnesota Twins. However, he refused to sign with the Twins, and instead was selected in the 1984 supplemental draft by the New York Yankees. He was picked up by the Oakland Athletics in the compensation pool.
After climbing through the A's system to Triple-A, he was traded to Los Angeles on September 3, 1987, as the "player to be named later" in the Rick Honeycutt transaction. He made his MLB debut on September 6 as a Dodger. Belcher was a member of the 1988 Dodgers team that won the World Series, defeating the Oakland Athletics. Belcher won one game in the World Series after winning twice in the National League Championship Series. The next year he led the National League with 10 complete games and MLB with eight shutouts – the most since Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox the previous year, while placing in the top ten in wins and ERA. He was the last starting pitcher in the majors to have more than five shutouts, until 2011, when Cliff Lee of the Philadelphia Phillies had six on the season.
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