John Rheinecker

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**John Rheinecker**
Major League Baseball debut
Texas Rangers — No. 48
Pitcher
Bats: Left	Throws: Left
April 22, 2006 for the Texas Rangers
Selected MLB statistics (through the end of the 2006 season)
Wins-Losses	4-6
ERA	5.86
Strikeouts	28

John Philip Rheinecker (born May 29, 1979 in Belleville, Illinois) is a Major League Baseball player for the Texas Rangers. Prior to playing professional baseball, Rheinecker attended Belleville Area Community College and Southwest Missouri State. He was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in 2001.

After signing with the A's, Rheinecker spent the next four seasons in the organization's farm system. On March 31, 2006, Oakland traded him (along with infielder Freddie Bynum) to the Texas Rangers for troubled pitcher Juan Dominguez.

A southpaw starting pitcher, Rheinecker made his Major League debut April 22, 2006 in a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. On his 27th birthday (May 29, 2006, which was also Memorial Day), Rheinecker made his second start for the Rangers, pitching 8 1/3 shutout innings and earning his first Major League win. For most of the 2006 season, he has been shuffled back and forth between the Rangers and their Triple-A affiliate, the Oklahoma RedHawks.