Joshua Alan Hall (born December 16, 1980, in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American former

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starting pitcher. He has played in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds in 2003. Hall was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 7th round of the

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. His best minor league season was in with the Single-A

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. He went 11–5 with a 2.66

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and 122 strikeouts. He made his major league debut against the

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on August 2, 2003, as a spot starter going 5 innings, giving up 2

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s, and getting a

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. Hall missed the entire season due to an injury and began back in the minors. First at High-A

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, he was then promoted to Double-A Chattanooga where he had a 3.53 ERA. He played mostly with Chattanooga again in , but also some with Triple-A

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. Hall became a free agent after the season and signed with the

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on November 6, 2006. In 2007, Hall was mostly a

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for Double-A

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, but in , again with Harrisburg, he was a starter. After 7 games, he was released by the Nationals and signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies. With Colorado, he split the rest of the season with Double-A

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and Triple-A

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. He became a free agent at the end of the season and re-signed with the Rockies in January . Hall was released by the Colorado Rockies at the end of Spring training. On May 11, Hall agreed to a minor league deal with the Mariners. He declared free agency in November of that year.

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