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**Sean Gallagher**
Sean Gallagher
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	San Diego Padres — No. 63
	Starting pitcher
	Born: December 30, 1985 (age 24); Boston, Massachusetts
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
MLB debut
	June 9, 2007 for the Chicago Cubs
Career statistics; (through 2009　season)
Win-Loss	8-9
Earned run average	5.59
Strikeouts	122
Teams
	Chicago Cubs (2007-2008); Oakland Athletics (2008-2009); San Diego Padres (2009-present);

Sean Patrick Gallagher (born December 30, 1985, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the San Diego Padres .

[edit] Professional career

[edit] Chicago Cubs

Gallagher was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 12th round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft. In first pro season he went 1-2 with a 3.12 ERA over 10 games in with the Arizona League Cubs. Gallagher allowed 19 runs, 12 earned, on 38 hits in 34²⁄₃ innings, striking out 44 and walking 11.

In 2005 Gallagher was selected as the Cubs minor league pitcher of the year He played for the Peoria Chiefs and made the Midwest League All-Star Game and was voted by Baseball America as having the best breaking ball in the Midwest League. He went 14-5 with a 2.71 ERA in 26 games for Peoria, allowing 53 runs, 44 earned, on 107 hits over 146 innings. Gallagher struck out 139 and walked 55. He ranked first in the league in wins with 14, third in ERA with a 2.71 clip and fourth in strikeouts with 139. Gallagher also started one game for the Class-A Advanced Daytona Cubs, scattering one earned run on six hits over five innings and striking out seven.

Gallagher split time between the Double-A West Tenn Diamond Jaxx and Class-A Advanced Daytona. He went 7-5 with a 2.71 ERA, 30 runs, 26 earned, on 74 hits over 86¹⁄₃ innings while striking out 91 and walking 55 with West Tenn. He also went 4-0 with a 2.30 ERA, 24 runs, 20 earned, on 75 hits in 78¹⁄₃ innings while striking out 80 and walking 21 with Daytona.

Gallagher made his major league debut on June 9, 2007, against the Atlanta Braves. During the week of April 20-27, 2008, Gallagher was named the Pacific Coast League pitcher of the week.[1] The Cubs called him up to take the place of Rich Hill in their starting rotation after Hill struggled early in 2008.

[edit] Oakland Athletics

On July 8, 2008, Gallagher was traded from the Chicago Cubs as part of a six-player trade that saw the Cubs acquire Rich Harden and Chad Gaudin from the Oakland Athletics. With the A's he went 2-3 with a 5.88 ERA in 11 starts.

He went 1-2 with a 8.16 ERA in 14¹⁄₃ innings pitched in six games, two starts with the A's in 2009.

[edit] San Diego Padres

In July, 2009, it was announced that he will be sent to the San Diego Padres as the player to be named later in the trade for Scott Hairston. On September 7 he made his Padres debut.^[1] He went 2-0 in eight relief appearances for the Padres in '09.

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

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