Jake Westbrook
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| Cleveland Indians — No. 37 | |
| Starting Pitcher | |
| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
| Major League Baseball debut | |
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| June 17, 2000 for the New York Yankees | |
| Selected MLB statistics (through 2006) |
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| Wins | 56 |
| ERA | 4.35 |
| Strikeouts | 471 |
| Former teams | |
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Jacob Cauthen "Jake" Westbrook (born September 29, 1977 in Athens, Georgia) is a right-handed starting pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.
Jake was the 21st overall pick in the 1996 Major League first-year player draft out of Madison County High School by the Colorado Rockies. He tossed 6 no-hitters in his high school career.
As a minor league pitcher in the Colorado organization, Jake was part of a trade in 1997 with the Montreal Expos that would send the Rockies Mike Lansing.
In 1999, Jake was traded from the Expos along with Ted Lilly to the New York Yankees for pitcher Hideki Irabu. Jake appeared in 3 games for the Yankees as a rookie.
Less than a year later, the Yankees parted ways with Westbrook, Zach Day, and Ricky Ledee in exchange for David Justice of the Indians.
Jake was named to the All-Star team in 2004, where he won 14 ballgames with an earned run average of 3.38. Since becoming a full-time starter in 2004, the sinkerballer has won 10 games in three consecutive seasons.
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