Sean William Green (born April 20, 1979, in Louisville, Kentucky) is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the New York Mets.

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Green grew up in east Louisville, Kentucky, in the Fincastle community, where he honed his baseball skills playing "Tennie Ball" (baseball on concrete with a tennis ball and softball bat) on the neighborhood streets with his older brother Matthew and all the neighborhood kids.

Following his senior season at Louisville Male High School, Sean was selected by Toronto Blue Jays in 32nd round (959th overall) of the 1997 Major League Baseball Draft, but elected to attend the University of Louisville instead. He played baseball for the Louisville Cardinals from 1998 to 2000. He was drafted in the 12th round of the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft by the Colorado Rockies after his junior season at Louisville.

After spending his first professional season with the Portland Rockies of the Northwest League, the right-hander moved up the organizational ladder, pitching for the Asheville Tourists in the South Atlantic League in 2001, Salem in the Carolina League in 2002, and California League's Visalia Oaks before jumping to the Double-A Tulsa Drillers in 2004 where he was 4-3 with a 3.03 ERA.

In an off-season trade, the Seattle Mariners acquired Green from the Rockies for pitcher Aaron Taylor, and Green flourished in the Mariners farm system, logging a Texas League-high 14 saves and posting a 2.96 ERA for the San Antonio Missions in 2005 before being promoted to the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers.

He completed the 2005 season in Tacoma and pitched in seven spring training games with the big league squad in Arizona before opening 2006 back in Tacoma. His spring training performance and 4-0 record and 1.38 ERA as the Rainiers' closer caught the eye of Mariners manager Mike Hargrove.

Green made it to the big leagues when the Seattle Mariners called him up on April 29, 2006, to replace reliever Julio Mateo. When Mateo was activated on May 20, it was thought that Green would return to Triple-A Tacoma, but the Mariners opted to instead send down pitcher Emiliano Fruto. He made his first Major League appearance on May 2 against the Minnesota Twins.

In 2008, Green dominated before the All-Star break, with a 2.72 ERA, but after the All-Star break, Green had a 8.65 ERA.

On December 10, 2008, Green was sent to the New York Mets as a part of a 12-player, 3-team trade that sent reliever J.J. Putz to New York. ^[1]

On the 4th August, when he came on in relief with the bases loaded and 2 outs in the top of the 10th, his first pitch hit Mark DeRosa which forced in a run. The next batter he faced was Albert Pujols and Pujols jacked a Grand Slam on the first pitch and the Mets lost that game 12-7.

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• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
• Hometown Newspaper Article (Courier Journal)
• Gets Call to the Big Leagues
• News Tribune article