Ken Ray
| Ken Ray | |||
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| Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – No. 12 | |||
| Relief pitcher | |||
| Born: November 27, 1974 | |||
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 10, 1999, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2006 season) |
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| Win-Loss | 2-1 | ||
| Earned run average | 5.13 | ||
| Strikeouts | 50 | ||
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| Career highlights and awards | |||
Kenneth Alan Ray (born November 27, 1974) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals. Ray made his MLB debut on July 10, 1999, for the Royals.
Early career
After briefly pitching for the Royals in 1999, Ray spent years battling arm problems while trying to work his way back onto a major league roster.
Back in the majors
He made a meteoric rise from 2005 to 2006. In 2005, Ray started the season with the independent North Shore Spirit of the Can-Am League before being acquired by the Atlanta Braves organization. He spent the remainder of the season with the Triple-A Richmond Braves.
On April 6, 2006, following an injury to starter Horacio Ramírez, Ray was called up from the Richmond Braves, Atlanta's Triple-A affiliate. In his first appearance for Atlanta in 2006, he struck out Barry Bonds on 3 pitches.
He was claimed off waivers by the Royals in the 2006 offseason. Ray began the 2007 season in Triple-A with the Omaha Royals. He was released on August 18, 2007. On August 30, he was signed by the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. Ray began 2008 pitching for the Triple-A Potros de Tijuana of the Mexican League where he held a 6-3 record and a 3.65 ERA.[1] Ray signed with the SK Wyverns of the Korean Baseball Organization where he finished 2008.
He currently resides in Arizona with his wife and son.
On May 27, 2009, Ray was signed by the Cleveland Indians, and assigned to their AAA affiliate Columbus Clippers.
By March, 2010, Ray was pitching for the Lanew Bears in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League. In 2010 his ERA of 2.32 helped earn him a renewal, and Ray continues to play for Lanew Bears ( Now the Lamigo Monkeys ).
References
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- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
- Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics
- Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization
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- 1974 births
- Atlanta Braves players
- Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
- Bravos de Margarita players
- Columbus Clippers players
- American expatriate baseball players in Japan
- KBO League pitchers
- American expatriate baseball players in South Korea
- Expatriate baseball players in Taiwan
- Fresno Grizzlies players
- Gulf Coast Royals players
- High Desert Mavericks players
- Huntsville Stars players
- Kansas City Royals players
- La New Bears players
- Lamigo Monkeys players
- Leones de Yucatán players
- Living people
- Long Island Ducks players
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Nashville Sounds players
- North Shore Spirit players
- Omaha Golden Spikes players
- Omaha Royals players
- Sportspeople from Atlanta, Georgia
- People from Roswell, Georgia
- Potros de Tijuana players
- Richmond Braves players
- Rockford Royals players
- SK Wyverns players
- Tigres de Aragua players
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players
- Wichita Wranglers players
- Wilmington Blue Rocks players
- Winston-Salem Warthogs players
- Yuba-Sutter Gold Sox players
