Matthew Williams (baseball)
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Born: 28 February 1987 Camden, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||
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Matthew Jarrad Williams (28 February 1987) is an Australian professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. Williams has played in the Minnesota Twins organisation, who signed him as a non-drafted free agent in 2004.
Career
Williams began the 2008 season with the Beloit Snappers of the Midwest League. Going 2-0 with seven saves and a 2.09 earned run average and 42 strike outs over 38.2 innings pitched earned him a Midwest League All-Star selection, and a promotion to the Twins' advanced-A affiliate in Fort Myers. With the Miracle, he went 2-2 with a 3.35 ERA and 37 strikeouts in twenty appearances. He also started two games for the first time in his minor league career with the Miracle. In his starts, he was 1-0 with a 1.00 ERA—giving up one earned run over nine total innings.
Williams is one of two current Miracle on the ever-increasing list of Australian born baseball players, as he was born in Camden, Australia (the other being infielder/outfielder Daniel Berg).[1]
Australian National Team
He played for the Australian national baseball team in the 2009 Baseball World Cup.[2]
References
- ↑ "Minor League Baseball". Retrieved 2008-09-08.
- ↑ "Australian 2009 World Cup Team". Retrieved 2009-09-06.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)