Craig Anderson (left-handed Pitcher)
Craig Anderson (born 30 October 1980) is an Australian former professional left-handed baseball pitcher who has played for the Sydney Blue Sox in the Australian Baseball League as well as the Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles in Major League Baseball. Early career Anderson first signed with the Seattle Mariners in 1999. Anderson featured in the 2000 All-Star Futures Game. He played in the Mariners system through 2004, posting 11 wins and a 3.56 ERA with the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers that year. He played for Australia in the 2006 World Baseball Classic, after which he joined the Baltimore Orioles. He began 2008 pitching middle relief for the Norfolk Tides of the Triple-A International League. It was his second season in Norfolk, and his fifth in Triple-A. He became a free agent at the end of the season. He played for Australia in the 2009 WBC, starting the team's first game of the tournament against Mexico. Sydney Blue Sox Anderson played the first nine seasons in the Aust ...
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Starting Pitcher
In baseball (hardball or softball), a starting pitcher or starter is the first pitcher in the game for each team. A pitcher is credited with a game started if they throw the first pitch to the opponent's first batter of a game. Starting pitchers are expected to pitch for a significant portion of the game, although their ability to do this depends on many factors, including effectiveness, stamina, health, and strategy. A starting pitcher in professional baseball usually rests three, four, or five days after pitching a game before pitching in another. Therefore, most professional baseball teams have four, five or six starting pitchers on their rosters. These pitchers, and the sequence in which they pitch, is known as the ''rotation''. A team's best starter is known as the ace, and is almost always the first man to pitch in the rotation. In modern baseball, a five-man rotation is most common. In contrast, a pitcher who enters the game after the first pitch of the game is a re ...
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