Lance Broadway
Toronto Blue Jays — No. --
Pitcher
Born: August 20, 1983 (1983-08-20) (age 26) Bryan, Texas
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
MLB debut
September 7, 2007 for the Chicago White Sox
Career statistics (through 2009)
Win-Loss	2-2
Earned run average	5.24
Strikeouts	39
Teams
Chicago White Sox (2007-2009) New York Mets (2009)

Lance Daniel Broadway (born August 20, 1983) is an American Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He is 6'3" and throws right-handed.

[edit] High school and college

Broadway was born in Bryan, Texas and attended Grand Prairie High School, where he was an all-district performer all three of his years on the varsity team. He transferred from Grand Prairie after his junior year and attended Waxahachie High. He played with former high-school All-State player Ben Hudspeth,[1] but the team lost in the first round of the playoffs that year.

Broadway then went on to pitch for Dallas Baptist University, and major in communications, where he earned all-conference honors both years he pitched for the Patriots. He threw two no-hitters as a freshman and as a sophomore went 10-2 with a 2.82 Earned run average and 102 strikeouts in 108 innings pitched.

After two seasons with Dallas Baptist, Broadway transferred to Texas Christian University. He went 15-1 with a 1.62 ERA and 151 strikeouts in 117 innings pitched. This remarkable season earned him both the Conference USA's pitcher of the year and male athlete of the year awards.

[edit] Minor leagues

Broadway with Chicago White Sox on March 1, 2009.

Broadway was selected fifteenth overall (the fourth pitcher taken in the first round) by the Chicago White Sox in the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed for $1,570,000. After being selected , Broadway went 1-3 with the Winston-Salem Warthogs of the Carolina League. He went into the 2006 season considered the eighth best prospect in the White Sox system, and combined to go 8-8 with a 2.75 ERA and 117 strikeouts in 160.1 innings pitched between the Double-A Birmingham Barons and Triple-A Charlotte Knights.

Entering 2007, Broadway went all the way up to the 3rd best prospect in the White Sox system. Broadway finished the season at 8-9 with a 4.65 ERA and 108 strikeouts in 155.0 innings pitched.

[edit] New York Mets

With opening day starting catcher Brian Schneider ready to be activated from the disabled list, the New York Mets needed to clear a roster spot behind the plate. Omir Santos, who started the season in the minors, earned himself a job on the major league roster, so the Mets traded backup catcher Ramon Castro to the White Sox for Broadway in May 2009. Broadway, who was 0-1 with a 5.06 ERA for the season, was assigned to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons of the International League^[1] and was added to the starting rotation.^[2]

On August 26, 2009, Broadway was called up to the New York Mets when LHP Oliver Perez was placed on the disabled list.^[3]

On December 13, 2009, Broadway was non-tendered by the New York Mets, making him a free agent.

[edit] Toronto Blue Jays

On December 16, 2009, Broadway was signed by the Toronto Blue Jays to a minor league deal.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
• http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jspn=Lance2520Broadway&pos=P&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=473560