Joseph Anthony Musgrove was born on December 4,1992 and is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball.
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28 Facts About Joe Musgrove
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Joe Musgrove previously played within the Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros, and Pittsburgh Pirates organizations.
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Joe Musgrove was born in El Cajon, California, and began participating in baseball tournaments at the age of seven.
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Joe Musgrove broke out as a star pitcher and batter during his junior season at Grossmont High School, which he helped take to two state championship appearances.
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Partway through the 2012 season, Joe Musgrove was traded to the Astros as part of a massive ten-player swap.
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Joe Musgrove began to rise through the Astros' farm system in 2015, and made his major league debut the following year.
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Joe Musgrove spent two years there before being traded to his hometown Padres.
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Joe Musgrove was born on December 4,1992, in El Cajon, California, to Mark and Diane Joe Musgrove.
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Joe Musgrove was frequently busy, working as a police officer and private investigator in San Diego, California so Diane played catch with a young Musgrove in their front yard.
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Joe Musgrove began participating in baseball tournaments at the age of seven, where he was often physically larger than his teammates.
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Additionally, Joe Musgrove took pitching lessons with distant relative Dominick Johnson, the son of Major League Baseball pitcher Deron Johnson.
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Joe Musgrove attended Grossmont High School in El Cajon, where he emerged as a strong two-way player during his junior season.
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On July 20,2012, Joe Musgrove was part of a massive 10-player trade between the Blue Jays and the Houston Astros.
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Joe Musgrove was traded to Houston alongside major league players Francisco Cordero and Ben Francisco, minor league prospects Asher Wojciechowski, David Rollins, and Carlos Perez, and a player to be named later, in exchange for J A Happ, Brandon Lyon, and David Carpenter.
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Series of injuries throughout his minor league career kept Joe Musgrove from breaking out of the Rookie Leagues until 2014, when he was assigned to the Class A Short Season Tri-City ValleyCats.
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Joe Musgrove missed two months of the 2012 season due to a strained rotator cuff, and spent the majority of the 2013 season on the sidelines with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament.
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Joe Musgrove was named the Astros' 2015 Minor League Pitcher of the Year, and was added to the 40-man roster in November so that he could be protected from the Rule 5 draft.
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Joe Musgrove retired all three World Team batters he faced in only 11 pitches.
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Joe Musgrove subsequently said he thought the team's championship was "tainted" because of this.
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Pitching against the St Louis Cardinals on August 30,2018, Joe Musgrove began the game by throwing 21 consecutive strikes, the most by a major league pitcher to start a game since 1988.
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Joe Musgrove threw 77 of 112 pitches for strikes and struck out 10 batters; a fourth-inning hit by pitch to Joey Gallo prevented Musgrove from achieving a perfect game.
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Joe Musgrove led the Padres' starting rotation in wins, ERA and strikeouts.
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Joe Musgrove followed up his 2021 campaign with a strong season in 2022, recording a career low 2.
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Joe Musgrove pitched the third game of the 2022 NL Wild Card Series against the New York Mets, holding the Mets scoreless over seven innings while allowing only two baserunners.
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Joe Musgrove pitched the fourth game of the NLDS against the Los Angeles Dodgers and earned the win in the series-clinching game, holding the Dodgers to two runs over six innings despite allowing nine baserunners.
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