Jason Ryan (baseball)

Jason Paul Ryan (born January 23, 1976) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played during two seasons at the major league level for the Minnesota Twins. He was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 9th round of the 1994 amateur draft. Ryan played his first professional season with their Rookie league teams (Huntington Cubs and Gulf Coast Cubs) and their Double-A Orlando Cubs in 1994, and split his last season with the Triple-A affiliates of the Pittsburgh Pirates (Nashville Sounds) and Los Angeles Dodgers (Las Vegas 51s) in 2005.

Jason Ryan
Pitcher
Born: (1976-01-23) January 23, 1976
Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.
Batted: Switch
Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 24, 1999, for the Minnesota Twins
Last MLB appearance
October 1, 2000, for the Minnesota Twins
MLB statistics
Win–loss record1–5
Earned run average5.94
Strikeouts34
Teams

Ryan grew up in Bound Brook, New Jersey[1] and attended Immaculata High School in Somerville, New Jersey.[2]

References

  1. Thomson, Peter. "Ryan, A 9th-round Pick, Moving Up Cubs' Ladder", Orlando Sentinel, September 4, 1994. Accessed July 31, 2015. "As incongruous as it sounds, Ryan's buddies back home in Bound Brook, N.J., better accept the fact that Ryan, drafted in the ninth round of this year's major-league draft, did face Jordan and the Birmingham Barons."
  2. Jay Ryan, The Baseball Cube. Accessed January 13, 2008.


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