Greg Brummett
Greg Brummett | |
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Starting pitcher | |
Born: Wichita, Kansas, U.S. | April 20, 1967|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
May 29, 1993, for the San Francisco Giants | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 30, 1993, for the Minnesota Twins | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 4–4 |
Earned run average | 5.08 |
Strikeouts | 30 |
Teams | |
Gregory Scott "Spike" Brummett (born April 20, 1967) is an American former right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants and Minnesota Twins in 1993.
Prior to playing professionally, Brummett attended
To close out his collegiate career, he had 13 straight victories. Overall, he had 43 wins, 59 starts and 424 innings pitched in his collegiate career. He also had 364 strikeouts.
Brummett was drafted by the Giants in the 11th round of the 1989 amateur draft. He played for two different minor league teams in 1989, the San Jose Giants and the Everett Giants. For San Jose, he went 0–1 with a 5.59 ERA in two games. For Everett, he went 4–2 with a 2.88 ERA in 14 games (10 starts).
In 1990, Brummett played for the
He spent about half of the 1993 season in the minors and half in the big leagues. In the minors, he played for Phoenix, going 7–7 with a 3.62 ERA in 18 starts. On May 29, he made his major league debut, against the Atlanta Braves, pitching 62⁄3 innings, striking out three batters (all three were Ron Gant) and earning the win. He would end up pitching eight games for the Giants, going 2–3 with a 4.70 ERA.
On September 1, 1993, he was the player to be named later in a deal that originally took place on August 28. The Giants sent a player to be named later (Brummett), Aaron Fultz and minor leaguer Andres Duncan to the Twins for Jim Deshaies. Brummett would start five games for the Twins, going 2–1 with a 5.74 ERA. Overall, he went 4–4 with a 5.08 ERA in 13 big league games. He played his final game on September 30.
Although his big league career was over, his professional career was not. In fact, he played in 1994 for the
He was inducted into the Wichita State University Hall of Fame in 1995.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Retrosheet
- SABR[permanent dead link]
- GoShockers.com Archived 2012-04-10 at the Wayback Machine