Shane Komine
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| Oakland Athletics — No. 60 | |
| Relief Pitcher | |
| Born: October 18, 1980 | |
| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
| Major League Baseball debut | |
| July 30, 2006 for the Oakland Athletics | |
| Selected MLB statistics (through July 19, 2007) |
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| Win-Loss | 0-0 |
| Earned Run Average | 4.86 |
| Strikeouts | 2 |
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Shane Kenji Komine (born October 18, 1980 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a right-handed major-league pitcher for the Oakland Athletics. He made his major league debut against the Toronto Blue Jays on July 30, 2006 (6 IP, 1 ER, 4 BB, 1 K). He is the third American-born player of full Japanese ancestry in Major League history, after Ryan Kurosaki and Lenn Sakata.
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[edit] Amateur career
Komine graduated from Kalani High School in Honolulu in 1999. He attended the University of Nebraska from 1999-2002 and became the Cornhuskers' ace pitcher. After going 10-0 his senior year of 2002, he was drafted by the Oakland A's in the 9th round of the infamous "Moneyball" draft. While at Nebraska, Komine was a teammate of former A's first baseman Dan Johnson.
[edit] Professional career
Komine spent the majority of his first pro years with the Midland RockHounds (AA), having moderate success. An impressive run through July of 2006 with Sacramento (AAA) earned him a call-up to the A's on July 26, replacing Sacramento teammate Jason Windsor.
On July 17, 2007, Komine got into a game in the 8th inning against the Texas Rangers with fellow Hawaiian Kurt Suzuki doing the catching. This marked the first time in major league baseball history that there was a battery where both the players were Hawaiian.
[edit] Trivia
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- Komine is nicknamed "The Hawaiian Punch-Out"
- He is the 19th pitcher from Hawaii to have played in the Major Leagues.
- He is the third player from Hawaii to play for the A's, including Ron Darling and Lenn Sakata. His fellow teammate on the 2007 A's, Kurt Suzuki is also from Hawaii.
[edit] External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
