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**Jonah Bayliss**
Jonah Bayliss
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	Saitama Seibu Lions — No. 42
	Relief pitcher
	Born: August 13, 1980 (age 29); North Adams, Massachusetts
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
MLB debut
	June 21, 2005 for the Kansas City Royals
Career statistics; (through 2008 season)
Win-Loss	5-4
Earned run average	6.75
Strikeouts	54
Teams
	Kansas City Royals (2005); Pittsburgh Pirates (2006-2007); Saitama Seibu Lions (2009-) (NPB);

Jonah James Bayliss (born August 13, 1980 in North Adams, Massachusetts) is a right-handed relief pitcher for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball. He is an alumnus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and Lawrence Academy at Groton in Groton, Massachusetts.

Bayliss was originally a seventh-round draft pick of the Kansas City Royals in 2002, and he made his major league debut with that team on June 21, 2005. Bayliss pitched 11 2/3 innings in relief for the Royals that year, and then he and minor league reliever Chad Blackwell were traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates for starting pitcher Mark Redman on December 7.

On March 28, 2008, the Pittsburgh Pirates designated Bayliss for assignment.^[1] According to Pirates manager Neal Huntington, "Bayliss is the type of player that teams should be looking for on the waiver wire. He has good stuff, but has struggled with control. If he can figure that out, he can be a very solid reliever."

On June 19, 2008, Bayliss was traded by the Pirates to the Toronto Blue Jays. He became a free agent at the end of the season and re-signed with Toronto in February 2009.

Bayliss did not make the Toronto Blue Jays 40-man roster and will start the 2009 season with the Triple A Las Vegas 51s. On July 28, 2009, Bayliss was released by the Toronto Blue Jays so that he could sign with The Saitama Seibu Lions of the Japan Pacific League.

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