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In September 2000, Major League Baseball reached a six-year, $2.5 billion contract [7] with Fox that allowed it to retain rights to Saturday baseball games, [8] and included rights to the All-Star Game, select Division Series games and exclusive coverage of the League Championship Series and World Series. 90% of the contract's value to Fox ...
Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson was born on May 18, 1946, in the Wyncote neighborhood of Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, just north of Philadelphia.His father, Martinez Jackson, who was half Puerto Rican, [5] worked as a tailor and was a former second baseman with the Newark Eagles of Negro league baseball. [6]
Chad Douglas Fox (born September 3, 1970) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. Fox played for the Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox, Florida Marlins, and the Chicago Cubs. He won the 2003 World Series as a member of the Marlins.
Fox was perennially one of the toughest batters to strike out, fanning just 216 times in his career, an average of once every 42.7 at-bats, which ranks him third all-time. [1] He led the league in most at-bats per strikeouts a phenomenal 13 times in his career. In 1951, Fox hit more triples (12) than he had strikeouts (11).
As such, player representation by birth spans to 25 countries as of the 2022 MLB season, with the United States topping the list at 1,057 players called up to 26-man rosters. [9] The most represented overseas country is the Dominican Republic, with 171 players called up to 26-man rosters. [9]
Fox with the Omaha Storm Chasers in 2021. On August 27, 2020, the Rays traded Fox to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for Brett Phillips. [14] On July 30, 2021, Fox was promoted to the major leagues for the first time, but did not appear in the Royals' game against the Toronto Blue Jays and was optioned back to the Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers the next day.
Brown with the Tulsa Drillers in 1988. The Texas Rangers selected Brown in the first round, with the fourth pick overall, in the 1986 Major League Baseball draft.Starting in 1989, Brown was second in the Rangers' rotation behind ace Nolan Ryan and posted a 12–9 record with a 3.35 ERA and 104 strikeouts in 1989 and a 12–10 record with a 3.60 ERA and 88 strikeouts in 1990.
On February 21, 2018, Whitley was suspended 50 games for violating MLB's drug prevention and treatment program. [10] He recorded a 3.76 ERA in 8 starts for Corpus Christi that season. The Astros invited Whitley to spring training in 2019, [11] and he began the season with the Round Rock Express of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. [12]