Jordan Tata
Jordan Tata | |
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Pitcher | |
Born: Plano, Texas | September 20, 1981|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
April 6, 2006, for the Detroit Tigers | |
Last MLB appearance | |
August 10, 2007, for the Detroit Tigers | |
MLB statistics | |
Win–loss record | 1–1 |
Earned run average | 6.91 |
Strikeouts | 14 |
Teams | |
Jordan Arthur Tata (TAY-ta) (born September 20, 1981) is a retired major league pitcher. Tata made his major league debut on April 6, 2006 against the Texas Rangers in a 10-6 win. For college he attended Sam Houston State. He is 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds. Tata bats and throws right-handed.
While pitching for the Lakeland Tigers in 2005, Tata made the Florida State League All-Star team as a starting pitcher, and at the season's end he was named the league's Pitcher of the Year.[1]
Tata picked up his first big league win on July 30, 2007 while pitching in place of the injured Kenny Rogers. The Tigers beat the Oakland Athletics by a score of 5-2. Tata struck out 5, walked 2 and allowed 6 hits and 2 earned runs. Todd Jones gave Tata the customary shaving cream-pie to the face during a post game interview.[2] Jordan's second start at Comerica Park August 3 resulted in a 3-1 loss. Tata gave up all three runs in 5 innings pitched.
Tata spent the 2008 baseball season pitching for the Lakeland Flying Tigers of the Florida State League and the Gulf Coast Tigers of the Rookie League.
After a rough spring, the Tigers released Tata on April 1, 2009.[3]
Tata was signed by the Grand Prairie AirHogs on April 15, 2009.[4]
The Grand Prairie AirHogs released Tata on July 1.[5]
He is now a head coach of select baseball teams in Texas.
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- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Plano, Texas
- Detroit Tigers players
- Toledo Mud Hens players
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Sam Houston State Bearkats baseball players
- Baseball players from Texas
- Grand Prairie AirHogs players
- Gulf Coast Tigers players
- Gigantes del Cibao players
- American expatriate baseball players in the Dominican Republic
- Lakeland Flying Tigers players
- Lakeland Tigers players
- Oneonta Tigers players
- Phoenix Desert Dogs players
- West Michigan Whitecaps players
- American baseball pitcher, 1980s births stubs