Dwight Gooden

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dwight Gooden
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Nov 16, 1964(1964-11-16)
Age	60
Birthplace	Tampa
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Scorpio

Dwight Gooden Biography

Dwight Gooden is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on November 16, 1964 in Tampa, Florida, United States. 1985 National League Cy Young Award winner and triple crown winner known as “Doc” Gooden. He helped lead the New York Mets to a World Series Championship in 1986, then won two more World Series with the New York Yankees in 1996 and 2000.

He and Darryl Strawberry were teammates on the 1986 World Series Champion Mets.

Dwight Eugene “Doc” Gooden (born November 16, 1964), nicknamed “Dr. K”, is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Gooden pitched from 1984 to 1994 and from 1996 to 2000 for the New York Mets, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In a career spanning 430 games, he pitched ​2,800 ⁄3 innings and posted a win–loss record of 194–112, with a 3.51 earned run average (ERA), and 2,293 strikeouts.

A native of Tampa, Florida, Dwight Gooden was drafted in the first round in 1982, the fifth player taken overall. He spent one season in the minors, in which he led the Class-A Carolina League in wins, strikeouts and ERA while playing for the Lynchburg Mets. Gooden had 300 strikeouts in 191 innings, a performance which convinced Triple-A Tidewater Tides manager and future Mets manager Davey Johnson to bring him up for the Tides’ postseason.

He had four children with his wife Monica Harris.

Dwight Gooden Net Worth

Dwight Gooden is one of the richest Baseball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dwight Gooden 's net worth $300 Thousand. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He spent one dominant year in the minor leagues before moving up to the major leagues with the Mets in 1984.

He was a 4-time All-Star and pitched the only no-hitter of his career on May 14, 1996 against the Seattle Mariners.

That season, Gooden won 17 games, the most by a 19-year-old since Wally Bunker won 19 games in 1964 and the second most for a Mets rookie, after Jerry Koosman’s 19 wins in 1968. Gooden won eight of his last nine starts; in his final three starts of the 1984 season, he had 41 strikeouts and 1 walk. Gooden led the league in strikeouts, his 276 breaking Herb Score’s rookie record of 245 in 1955, and also set the record for most strikeouts in three consecutive starts with 43. As a 19-year-old rookie, Gooden set the then-major league record for strikeouts per 9 innings, with 11.39, breaking Sam McDowell’s record of 10.71 in 1965. He was voted the Rookie of the Year, giving the Mets two consecutive winners of that award (Darryl Strawberry had been the recipient in 1983). Gooden also became the third Mets pitcher to win the award, joining Tom Seaver (1967) and Jon Matlack (1972). Gooden finished second in the NL Cy Young Award voting, even though he had more NL wins, strikeouts, innings pitched, and a lower ERA than the NL winner Rick Sutcliffe.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Dwight Gooden Dating?

According to our records, Dwight Gooden married to Monique Moore , Monica Harris. As of December 1, 2023, Dwight Gooden’s is not dating anyone.

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In September, he pitched back-to-back nine-inning games allowing no runs, but received no-decisions in both games. In his four losses, Gooden allowed 26 hits and five walks in 28 innings, with 28 strikeouts and a 2.89 ERA. The Mets finished second in the 1985 NL East, and teammates jokingly blamed Gooden for having lost 4 games, thereby mathematically costing them the division title. That year, Gooden became one of only 14 African-American pitchers ever to win 20 games, the most recent of whom was CC Sabathia. Gooden became the youngest- ever recipient of the Cy Young Award and Pitcher of the Year Award. There was even media speculation about Gooden’s Hall of Fame prospects. That November, Gooden turned 21.

Facts & Trivia

Dwight Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dwight Gooden celebrates birthday on November 16 of every year.

In 1985, Gooden pitched one of the most statistically dominating single seasons in baseball history. Leading Major League Baseball with 24 wins, 268 strikeouts, and a 1.53 ERA (the second lowest in the live-ball era, trailing only Bob Gibson’s 1.12 in 1968) Gooden earned the major leagues’ pitching Triple Crown. He led the National League in complete games (16) and innings pitched (276​⁄3 ). From his second start onward, Gooden’s ERA never rose above 2.00. At age 20, he was the youngest pitcher of the last half-century to have an ERA+ above 200. Gooden’s ERA+ was 229; 23-year-old Dean Chance (200 ERA+ in 1964) was the only other pitcher under the age of 25 to do so.

Why is Dwight Gooden not in the Hall of Fame?

Gooden appeared on the 2006 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. He was named on only 17, or 3.3 percent, of the 520 voting writers’ ballots, and, having been named on less than 5 percent of the total ballots, was removed from future HOF consideration.

Did Dwight Gooden shoot dad?

Gooden also writes about growing up as the youngest child in a tight-knit family and the trauma that lurked behid his seemingly solid middle-class childhood. Gooden’s mother, he writes, once shot his father with a . 38 Special after she learned he had been fooling around with another woman.

What happened to Dwight Gooden?

Even with the problems Gooden had with substance abuse, ones that caused him to miss all of the 1995 season because of a drug suspension, Gooden ended up with three World Series rings: one with the Mets in 1986 and two more with the Yankees later.

How much money did Dwight Gooden make?

Career Earnings Dwight Gooden earned $36 million during his career in Major League Baseball.

Will Darryl Strawberry be in the Hall of Fame?

He worked as an instructor for the New York Mets in 2005 and 2008, and was inducted to the Mets Hall of Fame in 2010. He has made regular appearances at the New York Yankees’ Old Timer’s Day, most recently in 2012.