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**Scott Richmond**
Scott Richmond
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	Toronto Blue Jays — No. 48
	Starting pitcher
	Born: August 30, 1979 (age 30); North Vancouver, British Columbia
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
MLB debut
	July 30, 2008 for the Toronto Blue Jays
Career statistics; (through September 2, 2009)
Win–Loss	7-11
Earned run average	4.42
Strikeouts	120
Teams
	Toronto Blue Jays (2008–present);
Career highlights and awards
	American League: Rookie of the Month, April 2009;

Scott Daniel Richmond (born August 30, 1979 in North Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.

[edit] College, Independent, and Minor League career

Richmond's high school did not offer baseball, and he played amateur summer baseball throughout western Canada, supporting himself by working on the Vancouver dockyards. He attended Missouri Valley College for one year, and played for the school's NAIA-level baseball team. He then moved to Bossier Parish Community College in Louisiana for one year, again playing for the baseball team. He transferred to Oklahoma State University, where he was an honorable mention All-Star in the Big 12 conference for the Cowboys in 2005, his final season, but went undrafted after college, since he was already age 25.^[1]

He then joined the independent Northern League, where he played three seasons for the Edmonton Cracker-Cats. ^[2] He struggled in his first season with Edmonton (1–4, 4 saves, 6.25 ERA) in 2005. In 2006, he was 3–7 with 8 saves and a 3.03 ERA, striking out 72 while walking only 17 in 71 1/3 innings and allowing just 53 hits. He led Edmonton in ERA; had he qualified with enough innings pitched, he would have ranked 4th in the Northern League. Richmond moved to the starting rotation in 2007, where he had a 10–9 record and a 4.26 ERA. The rest of the staff was just 28–49, as Richmond led his team in wins. He was 10th in the Northern League in ERA, and was the pitcher of the year for Edmonton. After his contract expired, he was signed by the Toronto Blue Jays, after impressing scouts in an open tryout.

In 2008, Richmond signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays. He had a 4.29 ERA and 115/36 K/BB ratio in 121 2/3 innings with 21 starts between the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats and the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs.

[edit] MLB career

[edit] 2008

He made his first major league start on July 30, 2008, against the Tampa Bay Rays, and was the pitcher of record in a 3-2 loss.^[3] He went 5 1/3 innings, allowing all 3 runs on 7 hits. After losing two of his first three starts with one no-decision, Scott was demoted to Triple-A. He was called up again on September 2, and won his first career game at Baltimore on September 26. He finished the season with a 1–3 record and a 4.00 ERA in 27 Major League innings pitched.

He did not play for Team Canada in the Beijing Olympics due to his call up with the Jays.

[edit] 2009

Richmond was selected as a starting pitcher for Team Canada at the World Baseball Classic, but did not get to play. He is a starter at the Major League level for the Blue Jays for his first full season, due to injuries to Shaun Marcum and Dustin McGowan.^[4] In the month of April, Richmond went 3–0, allowing 7 earned runs, 20 strikeouts with a 2.70 ERA over 23.1 innings pitched. His strong performance played an important role in keeping Toronto in first place for the month of April. Richmond was honored by Major League Baseball for his strong April, winning the Rookie of the Month award for the American League.^[5]

As the Jays' fifth starter for 2009, Richmond through the third week of June had also made three bullpen appearances, on occasions when scheduled off-days removed the need for a fifth starter, and when the Jays' relief corps was overworked. Due to a multitude of injuries to Jays' pitchers, Richmond through the third week of June remained the only Jays' starter who had been in the rotation since the start of the season. He set a career high with 11 strikeouts against the World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies, pitching 8 innings in a 7-1 win on June 17.^[6]

On July 4, he was put on the DL, for the first time in his career, with shoulder tendinitis.^[7]

Scott has come to earn the nickname "The Spider", as the teams playing for the University of Richmond ^[8] are known as the Richmond Spiders.

[edit] References

^ Baseball America Prospects Handbook 2009, pp. 473–474; ISBN 978-1-9323912-4-4.
^ "Scott Richmond has travelled a long and winding road to the Rogers Centre". sportsnet.ca. 2008-07-28. http://www.sportsnet.ca/thewire/baseball/2008/07/28/scott_richmond_has_travelled. Retrieved 2007-06-18.
^ "Scott Richmond". usatoday.com. 2008-07-28. http://fantasybaseball.usatoday.com/content/player.asp?sport=MLB&id=5634. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
^ "Blue Jays name Scott Richmond fifth starter, Barrett backup catcher". Canadian Press. 2009-04-01. http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iSy0GwiGZ4xP-o1-8zNmPzNNeNVQ. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
^ http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090505&content_id=4572994&vkey=news_tor&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor
^ Richmond does his impression of an ace, by Robert MacLeod, The Globe and Mail, June 18, 2009, p. S4.
^ http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5glYyZEUs2FUAe2rlpLEMcUJguoOg
^ http://www.richmond.edu/athletics/index.html

[edit] External links

Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube

[0] Baseball America Prospects Handbook 2009, pp. 473–474; ISBN 978-1-9323912-4-4.

[1] "Scott Richmond has travelled a long and winding road to the Rogers Centre". sportsnet.ca. 2008-07-28. http://www.sportsnet.ca/thewire/baseball/2008/07/28/scott_richmond_has_travelled. Retrieved 2007-06-18.

[2] "Scott Richmond". usatoday.com. 2008-07-28. http://fantasybaseball.usatoday.com/content/player.asp?sport=MLB&id=5634. Retrieved 2008-07-28.

[3] "Blue Jays name Scott Richmond fifth starter, Barrett backup catcher". Canadian Press. 2009-04-01. http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iSy0GwiGZ4xP-o1-8zNmPzNNeNVQ. Retrieved 2009-04-01.

[4] ttp://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090505&content_id=4572994&vkey=news_tor&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor

[5] Richmond does his impression of an ace, by Robert MacLeod, The Globe and Mail, June 18, 2009, p. S4.

[6] ttp://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5glYyZEUs2FUAe2rlpLEMcUJguoOg

[7] ttp://www.richmond.edu/athletics/index.html

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