Tim Lahey

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim Lahey
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Feb 7, 1982(1982-02-07)
Age	42
Birthplace	Worcester
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Aquarius

Tim Lahey Biography

Tim Lahey is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on February 7, 1982 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Lahey was born on February 7 1982, on the 7th of February in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a child in Massachusetts the place he grew up, his favourite Major League Baseball team was the Boston Red Sox. He was a part of the varsity team during his debut season in St. John’s High School located in Shrewsbury Massachusetts. He was the only freshman in the school since Ron Darling to be named an official member of the senior team. Apart from the sport of baseball, he also played basketball and golf during high school.

Lahey got promoted to High-A Fort Myers Miracle for the season of 2006. Lahey won his first win in the 2006 season, which was one of seven in the entire season. He had seven wins and one loss with an .875 winning percentage being the most impressive mark in his career. On on the field Lahey was the top pitcher on team with assists, having 17 and did not commit mistakes. In the mound Lahey posted an impressive 4.33 ERA; he was second in the team’s the games that were played (45) and racked up the club’s third highest save total with nine. The following year saw Lahey promoted once more, and he began 2007’s season as a double-A player for the New Britain Rock Cats. With a team- high of fifty relief innings, Lahey topped his team Rock Cats with 13 saves and posted an 8-4 record as well as an impressive 3.45 ERA. On August 29 his promotion was to Triple-A Rochester Red Wings, where his season ended by pitching in two games and securing one.

Lahey began 2009 with Rochester, but his ​56 ⁄3 innings pitched on the season were his lowest total since 2005, the season of his conversion to the pitcher’s mound. He earned a single save, striking out 44 batters, and compiled a career-high 5.72 ERA. His 41 appearances were second-most among Red Wings pitchers, and he committed no errors on the season while notching 12 assists. The following season, Lahey improved his win–loss record to 5–3, lowered his ERA to 5.08, pitched the second-most innings of his career (​79 ⁄3 ), and struck out 13 more batters than the previous year in only four more contests, but was released by the Twins at the end of 2010.

Lahey commands three pitches; his standard is a two-seam sinking fastball. He throws two breaking pitches: a slider, his “out pitch” to right-handed batters, and a split-finger fastball, more effective against left-handers. He credits baseball statistics and “numbers” for helping him improve the way he pitches; in a 2010 interview, Lahey claimed that his view of the game since the advent of Moneyball and advanced statistics has not changed, although he said that it has changed the way the public views the game.

After graduation, Lahey attended Princeton University in the USA, where he was a four-year player on the Tigers baseball team. In his initial two seasons Lahey had limited time playing as a catcher. He had a total of five home runs during the two seasons. In his junior season however, he hit 11 home runs which was the Tigers record for the second-highest single-season amount, while also being also named as an all-regional player for the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. In his final year the team was named the second team of the Ivy League and hit 31 runs in the year in addition to “[solidifying] his status as one of the greatest catchers in recent Princeton history”. When he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science, Lahey was selected by the Minnesota Twins in the 20th round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft, the 601st pick overall.

Tim Lahey Net Worth

Tim Lahey is one of the richest Baseball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim Lahey 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Timothy William Lahey (/”‘ l eI h i born 7 February 1982) is an ex-minor league relief baseball pitcher. Lahey is officially identified as being six feet five inches (196 cm) tall and weighing in at 250 pounds (110 kilograms). Lahey is an instance of the term “phantom ballplayer”: one who was on the roster of a major league team but has never played in any of the games.

When he signed with the Twins, Lahey was assigned to the rookie level Elizabethton Twins for the 2004 season, which ended in second position within the Appalachian League’s West Division. He played in 26 games for Elizabethton and led the team’s four catchers with assists and mistakes in his 22 field games. In the course of the season Lahey posted an .202 batsman’s percentage (17 hitting in his 84 bats) with 3 home runs , and batted 11 runs. In the first week of the season in 2005, they Twins were able to keep Lahey in training for an extended period of time and after a conversation about the issue with Joe Vavra and Jim Rantz, Lahey notified the team that he would be willing to change to pitching. Lahey spent the whole year in Elizabethton working on his pitching skills and was the top player with saves (15) as well as the number of games played (26) and allowing zero home runs. In the course of the season, he didn’t win a single game however, he did lose his first decision . He also accumulated an 3.55 earned run rate (ERA).

After the 2007 season, Lahey was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays with the first overall pick in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft on December 6; thereafter, he was immediately traded to the Chicago Cubs for cash considerations. He was waived by the Cubs in March, in favor of Jon Lieber, and subsequently claimed by the Philadelphia Phillies. Lahey opened the 2008 season in the Phillies bullpen. but was designated for assignment April 5 after not appearing in a game due to the activation of closer Brad Lidge from the disabled list. As a Rule 5 draft pick, Lahey was offered back to the Twins, returned to them on April 11, 2008, and was assigned to Fort Myers. He appeared in two games for the Miracle, pitching three scoreless innings, but was quickly called up to Rochester, where he faced the farm team of the club he had just left. He defeated the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Phillies’ triple-A affiliate, on April 23 by pitching ​1 ⁄3 scoreless innings and striking out two. For the 2008 season, Lahey won five games and lost five, striking out 53 and serving as the setup man to Bobby Korecky, earning eight saves. On the field, he compiled yet another errorless season.

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