Wade Miller
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: September 13, 1976 Reading, Pennsylvania |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 7, 1999, for the Houston Astros | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| April 22, 2007, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–Loss record | 62–45 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.00 | ||
| Strikeouts | 743 | ||
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Wade Thomas Miller (born September 13, 1976) is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Houston Astros from 1999 through 2004, the Boston Red Sox in 2005, and the Chicago Cubs in 2006 and 2007. He bats and throws right-handed. He attended Brandywine Heights High School in Topton, Pennsylvania. He is currently Alvernia University's pitching coach, a position he assumed in 2012.
Drafted out of Alvernia University, Reading, PA by the Houston Astros in 1996. A winner of 45 games in a three-year period for the Astros, Miller was one of the best young pitchers in the National League before injuring the rotator cuff in his pitching shoulder in 2004.
Miller went 16-8 with 183 strikeouts and a 3.40 ERA in 2001. A year later, he was close behind at 15-4, 144, 3.35, and tied the club record with a 12-game winning streak over the summer. He then pitched through right forearm pain in 2003, but still was 14-13, 161, 4.13, and led his team in starts (33) and innings (187.1).
In 2004, Miller was 7-7 with 74 strikeouts and a 3.35 ERA in 15 starts before going on the disabled list in June with a season-ending rotator cuff injury. The Astros believed he was playing hurt with shoulder and elbow injuries much of the year before, but he never complained about them.
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