Scott Wynne Feldman was born on February 7,1983 and is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
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47 Facts About Scott Feldman
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Scott Feldman played in Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays, and Cincinnati Reds.
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Scott Feldman followed it up with a minor league career in which he had a 2.
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Scott Feldman established himself in 2009 with a breakout season for the Rangers.
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Scott Feldman was born in Kailua, Hawaii, and grew up in Burlingame, California.
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Scott Feldman is Jewish, as is his father, and the family belonged to Peninsula Temple Sholom in Burlingame for a period of time.
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Scott Feldman went to Lincoln Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate School, and later Burlingame High School in Burlingame, where he pitched a no-hitter.
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Scott Feldman led the Peninsula Athletic League in batting average in his junior year.
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Scott Feldman was overweight in high school; at one point he was up to 265 pounds.
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In 2018, Scott Feldman was one of 42 players born in Hawaii to have made it to the majors.
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Scott Feldman lost 40 pounds before the start of his freshman year at the College of San Mateo, and walked on to the team.
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Scott Feldman was then drafted again, in the 30th round of the 2003 Draft by the Texas Rangers, 13 rounds behind future teammate Ian Kinsler, and this time he signed with the Rangers after they offered him a lucrative contract.
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Scott Feldman underwent reconstructive elbow surgery for a torn ulnar collateral ligament in October 2003.
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Scott Feldman began the 2005 season with the Single-A Bakersfield Blaze, but after nine scoreless innings in relief was quickly promoted to the Double-A Frisco RoughRiders.
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Scott Feldman started and won the two games that he pitched for Oklahoma.
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Scott Feldman made his major league debut against the Chicago White Sox on August 31,2005.
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Scott Feldman struck out Aaron Rowand for his first Major League strikeout.
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Towards the end of the spring training in 2006, Scott Feldman was feeling confident that he was going to make the parent club's 25-man roster.
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Scott Feldman was in the Rangers' 2007 spring training camp, and won the final spot in the Texas bullpen.
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In spring training in 2008, Scott Feldman changed his release point, and used the three-quarter delivery that he had begun to use late in 2007.
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Scott Feldman has exceeded all expectations, and his lack of history as a starter makes it difficult to figure where this great experiment is headed.
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Scott Feldman led the Rangers' pitching staff in quality starts, quality start percentage, strikes looking, "grounded into double plays", and "grounded into double play rate".
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Rangers decided that Scott Feldman would begin 2009 as a middle reliever, and Kris Benson would be a starter.
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Scott Feldman's cutter was more dominant than any other thrown over a single season since Baseball Info Solutions first began collecting cutter data in 2004.
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Scott Feldman became the first Rangers pitcher to win 16 games since Kevin Millwood in 2006.
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Scott Feldman has been unbelievable this year when he steps on the mound.
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Scott Feldman had pitched at least five innings in all but one of his 26 starts in 2009.
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Scott Feldman became the third player in Rangers history to win at least 17 games in 31 starts or fewer, joining Kenny Rogers and Ferguson Jenkins.
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Scott Feldman was named the Texas Rangers' Pitcher of the Year for 2009 by the Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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Scott Feldman, had microfracture surgery performed on his right knee during the off-season.
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Scott Feldman became the third pitcher in 20 years to throw at least four scoreless innings of relief in a postseason game.
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Scott Feldman pitched another scoreless inning in Game 4, and through the first two rounds of the postseason his playoff record was 8.
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Scott Feldman walked one-or-fewer batters in 10-straight starts; the only Ranger with a longer single-season streak was Ferguson Jenkins with 12-straight starts in 1974.
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Scott Feldman became a free agent on October 30,2012, when the Rangers declined his $9.
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On November 27,2012, Scott Feldman signed a one-year deal with the Chicago Cubs worth $6 million with a possible $1 million in additional incentives.
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On May 24,2013, Scott Feldman hit his first career home run off of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo.
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Scott Feldman signed a three-year, $30 million contract with the Houston Astros after the 2013 season.
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Scott Feldman was the Astros' opening day starter, and beat the New York Yankees by blanking them into the seventh inning.
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At 6'7, Scott Feldman was the third-tallest pitcher in Astros history behind Randy Johnson and JR Richard.
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Scott Feldman received the Astros 2014 Darryl Kile Good Guy Award, voted by the Houston Chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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Scott Feldman was on the Blue Jays' Wild Card and Division Series rosters, but was left off their Championship Series roster.
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Scott Feldman was originally assigned to pitch out of the bullpen, but with an injury to Homer Bailey, Scott Feldman was given a chance to audition for the Reds' rotation.
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The preparation for the Reds' rotation made Scott Feldman withdraw from Israel's national baseball team during the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
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Scott Feldman changed the angle of his arm from sidearm to three-quarters in September 2007.
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Scott Feldman was featured in the edition of Jewish Major Leaguers Baseball Cards, licensed by Major League Baseball, commemorating the Jewish major leaguers from 1871 through 2008.
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Scott Feldman joined, among others, Kinsler, Brad Ausmus, Kevin Youkilis, Ryan Braun, Gabe Kapler, Jason Marquis, John Grabow, Craig Breslow, Scott Schoeneweis and Jason Hirsh.
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