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Cody Daniel Cillo (born July 17, 1980) is an Italian-American former right-handed sinker-ball/slider
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most noted for his time with
Fortitudo Baseball Bologna Fortitudo Baseball 1953, commonly referred to as Fortitudo Bologna, also known as UnipolSai Bologna for sponsorship reasons, is a baseball club based in Bologna that competes in Serie A1, Italy's professional baseball league. The team plays at ...
of Federazione Italiana Baseball Sotball Serie A1. He also pitched for the
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that competed in the
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. He is tall, and weighs 195 lbs.


High school & college

Cillo lettered in baseball all four years at Olympia High School in
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. His senior year, he was first team all league, and the MVP of the Rivers League. Following two years at
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in
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, he went to
University of Alabama at Birmingham The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama. Developed from an academic extension center established in 1936, the institution became a four-year campus in 1966 and a fully autonomous univ ...
for his junior year (). In 27 appearances, all out of the bullpen, he went 2–2 with three saves for a team that only had seven wins (7-23, 12th in Conference USA). His senior year, Cillo made five starts, completing one game (23 total appearances). His record improved to 6–5 with four saves—giving Cillo a hand in ten of Birmingham's twelve wins. His 2.90
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was 1.16 lower than the previous season, and .01 better than Brad Sullivan, a fellow Conference USA hurler who would go to the Oakland Athletics in the first round of the 2003 Major League Baseball draft. Cillo went unpicked in that draft and signed as a free agent with the
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.


Minor leagues

Cillo split 2003 between the Gulf Coast League Marlins (5.2 IP, 9 strikeouts, 3 saves in 3 games) and the
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of the
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(3-1, 1 save, 2.86 ERA). In 2004, Cillo went 1–0 with a save and a 1.00 ERA for the GCL Marlins and 1–3 with a 5.82 ERA for the
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's
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. For the season, he had a 3.60 ERA in 25 appearances.


Northern League

Cillo was released by the Marlins at the end of the 2004 season, and caught on with the
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of the Northern League for their inaugural season, 2005. Cillo's record was 4–2 with a 4.04 ERA and 3 saves for the Vipers, striking out 64 in 62.1 IP. He was traded to the Rockford RiverHawks for Frank James in January 2006, however, he never played for Rockford, making his way to Italy instead.


Italy

In his first season in Federazione Italiana Baseball Sotball in 2006, Cillo was 7–4 with a 2.59 ERA for De Angelis Godo as the team (new to the A1 classification) missed the playoffs by one game. Cillo struck out 90 in 118.2 IP, finishing sixth in the league. He joined the Italian team for the World University Championship. In 2007, Cillo's record fell to 4–4, 3.31 for Godo. He was fifth in Serie A1 with 92.1 innings pitched. In the
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, Cillo fanned 7 in 6 innings for Italy, going 1–0 with a 1.50 ERA. Cillo's one win came on November 9, as Italy beat
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6–2. It was the U.S.'s first loss to Italy in 21 years and the first time it ever lost to Italy with professional players, as the team consisted of
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players and top minor league prospects. Cillo relieved Luca Panerati in the top of the sixth with a 6–2 lead and pitched two innings of one-hit ball, striking out two, against a lineup that included
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,
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,
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, Justin Ruggiano, Steve Pearce, Colby Rasmus and
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. Though he entered with a lead, Cillo got credit for the win because teenaged starter Matteo D'Angelo had not worked the required number of innings. It was the US's lone loss of the 2007
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. Cillo was a member of
Fortitudo Baseball Bologna Fortitudo Baseball 1953, commonly referred to as Fortitudo Bologna, also known as UnipolSai Bologna for sponsorship reasons, is a baseball club based in Bologna that competes in Serie A1, Italy's professional baseball league. The team plays at ...
in 2008.
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led the league in the win-loss column, with a pitching staff led by four hurlers with ERA below 2.00. Cillo had a 9–1 record in 14 starts, and his 1.34 ERA was second in the league to
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's Gustavo Martinez (1.17). Cillo finished third in the Miglior Lanciatore Assoluto (Italian equivalent to the Cy Young Award) behind Martinez and T&A San Marino's Tiago DaSilva.


2009 World Baseball Classic

Cillo once again joined team Italia for the 2009
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. Prior to the start of the WBC, Italy played two Spring training games against the
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and
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. Cillo took the loss in the Nats' 9–6 victory over Italy, giving up a walk off
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to
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. Against the Mets, Cillo pitched one inning, giving up one hit and striking out one in Italy's 3–2 loss. In the WBC, Cillo made two appearances in Italy's three games, giving up one earned run on a solo
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in one total inning pitched. Following the WBC, Cillo chose not to resign with Bologna, deciding instead to rejoin the Calgary Vipers, now of the
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.


Return to Fortitudo Bologna

In eight innings of work with the Vipers in 2009, Cillo allowed nine runs on twelve hits and six walks. He returned to Fortitudo Bologna for the 2010 season. Fortitudo finished second in the
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, then went on to win the Coppa Italia and the 2010 Final Four. Cillo was also a member of the
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who won the
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. In , Cillo went 6–4 with a 3.09 ERA and 55 strikeouts. Pitching out of the bullpen in 2012, Cillo went 2–2 with a 1.19 ERA for the Fortitudo team that went on to win the European Cup. He also won the European Championship with the Italian national team.


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Baseball.It
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cillo, Cody 1980 births Living people American people of Italian descent Baseball players from Cumberland County, Maine Italian baseball players Sportspeople from Brunswick, Maine Baseball pitchers American expatriate baseball players in Canada Gulf Coast Marlins players Jamestown Jammers players Greensboro Bats players Calgary Vipers players 2009 World Baseball Classic players