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July 3, 2006

Baseball Stuff

Brian Shackelford is a left-handed relief pitcher for the Reds.

Here’s stuff from his profile on Reds.com until I can get back around to researching this stuff properly:

  • Split the season between Class AAA Louisville and the Reds
  • began the season at Louisville and in 31g there went 1-6-1, 5.23 before he was promoted on 6/26, when Randy Keisler went on the 15-day disabled list
  • finished the season in Cin, where in his first stint in the Major Leagues he went 1-0, 2.43 in 37 relief apps
  • didn’t allow an earned run in 32 of his 37 apps
  • National League opponents hit just .204, the lowest on the staff
  • opposing LH batters hit .205 and opposing RH batters hit .203
  • on 6/26 at Cle threw a scoreless 0.2ip in his Major League debut
  • struck out his first big league batter (Grady Sizemore) on 3 pitches
  • posted a 1.61era in his first 24 apps of the season through 9/2, then on 9/3 at Atl allowed a season-high 3 earned runs in 0.2ip to raise overall ERA to 2.74
  • after that 9/3 appearance posted a 1.35era in his last 12g of the season
  • his overall ERA without that 9/3 outing drops to 1.55
  • on 7/21 vs Chi threw a perfect eighth inning to earn his only Major League victory (9-6 win)
  • retired his first batter 28-37 times and has stranded 13-16 inherited baserunners.