John Raymond Hudek (born August 8, 1966) is a former

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. He played all or part of six seasons in the majors, from until , for five different teams. He appeared in a total of 194 major league games, all in

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, making the 1994 NL All-Star team as a rookie. Once, in a game on September 5, 1997, he was tasked to pitch against Brian Johnson with runners on. With two strikes, catcher Tony Pena seemed to call for an intentional walk before Hudek threw a pitch in the middle of the zone for a strike that struck-out Johnson. Archived a
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He is currently a baseball coach at a Houston area school.

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