Aaron Brooks (baseball)
| Aaron Brooks | |||
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| Oakland Athletics – No. 36 | |||
| Pitcher | |||
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Born: April 27, 1990 Montclair, California | |||
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 3, 2014, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2015 season) | |||
| Win–loss record | 3-5 | ||
| Earned run average | 8.38 | ||
| Strikeouts | 40 | ||
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Aaron Lee Brooks (born April 27, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB). He pitched in MLB for the Kansas City Royals in 2014 and 2015.
Career
Brooks attended Cajon High School in San Bernardino, California, and Cal State San Bernardino, where he played college baseball for the Cal State San Bernardino Coyotes.[1]
Through the 2013 season, Brooks had issued only 1.3 walks per nine innings pitched in 393 1⁄3 total innings. The Royals invited Brooks to spring training in 2014.[1] They assigned him to the Omaha Storm Chasers of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League at the start of the 2014 season. Before he could pitch for Omaha, the Royals promoted Brooks to the major leagues on April 5, 2014.[2] He was optioned back to Omaha on April 8 without appearing in a game. He made his MLB debut on May 3.
On July 28, 2015, Brooks and teammate Sean Manaea were traded to the Oakland Athletics for Ben Zobrist.[3][4]
References
- 1 2 "BASEBALL: Area players in major league camps". blog.pe.com. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
- ↑ "Royals bring up right-hand reliever Aaron Brooks - KansasCity.com". kansascity.com. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
- ↑ Berry, Adam (July 28, 2015). "Royals get Zobrist in trade with A's". MLB.com. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Oakland Atheltics on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- Aaron Brooks on Twitter
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