Tim Leary (baseball)
| Tim Leary | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pitcher | |||
|
Born: December 23, 1958 Santa Monica, California |
|||
|
|||
| MLB debut | |||
| April 12, 1981, for the New York Mets | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| August 9, 1994, for the Texas Rangers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 78–105 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.36 | ||
| Strikeouts | 888 | ||
| Teams | |||
| Career highlights and awards | |||
|
|||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's baseball | ||
Representing the  United States |
||
| Amateur World Series | ||
 |
1978 Italy | Team |
Timothy James Leary (born December 23, 1958) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher.
Leary posted a 10-2 record in his senior year at Santa Monica High School, and was named to the 1976 All-CIF first-team. He went 19-1 to lead his American Legion Baseball team to the national championship. Much more in stature than his teammate and fellow former major leaguer, Rod Allen, he received the opportunity to play college baseball at UCLA.
He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a three-year letterwinner in baseball on top of completing an economics degree. Over his college career, Leary compiled a 21-15 record with a 3.09 earned run average. His sixteen complete games is a school record, and his 258 strikeouts are the school's fourth highest total.
In 1978, he helped lead the USA Amateur Team to the silver medal in the World Cup played in Italy. He was also a member of the 1979 Pan Am Team.
Leary was selected by the New York Mets as the second overall pick of the 1979 Major League Baseball draft. He went 15-8 with a 2.76 ERA and 138 strikeouts for the Jackson Mets in his first professional season, prompting the Mets to make the controversial decision to bring him all the way to the majors for his second season. Making his major league debut on April 12, 1981, Leary faced just seven batters, before leaving the game after just two innings with a strained elbow. After four months inactive, he appeared in six games with the Mets' triple A affiliate, the Tidewater Tides toward the end of the 1981 season. He strained his elbow a second time during Spring training 1982, and was shut down for the entire 1982 season.
...
Wikipedia