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Position |
Pitcher |
Height |
6'6" |
Weight |
220 |
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Birthdate |
10/30/1983 |
Throws |
Left |
Bats |
Left |
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Hometown |
Middleboro, MA
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BACKGROUND |
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Tom Thornton...pitched in 62 games over a four-year career at
Notre Dame, including 53 as a starter...compiled a career record of 27-12 with a 3.79 ERA...struck out 204 and walked 64 in 332.7 innings
pitched...a second-team All-Big East choice as a junior in 2005...co-captain as a senior in 2006...a teammate of Irish receiver and
pitcher Jeff Samardzija...played with former Otters' third baseman Matt Edwards at ND...a 21st round draft choice of the Detroit Tigers in 2006...19-4 with a 1.09 ERA in his
career at Middleboro (Mass.) H.S....rated as the 165th top high school prospect by
Baseball America in 2002...won three letters in baseketball and cross country...an accomplished celloist...double-majored in anthropology and film-television-and-theater.
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STATISTICS |
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Club |
League |
Class |
W-L |
ERA |
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GS |
CG |
SHO |
SV |
IP |
BB |
SO |
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2006 |
Oneonta |
NY-Penn |
A |
2-4 |
3.33 |
12 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
51.1 |
9 |
39 |
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2007 |
Nashua |
Can-Am |
Ind. |
0-1 |
6.91 |
14 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
28.2 |
10 |
23 |
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2007 |
Traverse City |
Fontier |
Ind. |
2-2 |
4.86 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
37.0 |
6 |
31 |
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