Single signed baseball by former New York Yankee pitcher...Tyler Clippard.

Tyler began his career in 2007 with the New York Yankees.  He has played for the Yankees 2007 and Washington Nationals 2008-09+.  Thru the 2009 season, he has played in 49 career games and registered an 8-4 won/loss record with a 3.87 ERA and 93 K's in 97.2 innings pitched.  Tyler signed the sweet spot of this OML Allan H. Selig baseball with a blue ballpoint pen.  

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Tyler Lee Clippard (born February 14, 1985 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Washington Nationals.

Professional career

New York Yankees

Clippard was drafted in the 9th round of the 2003 MLB Draft by the New York Yankees out of J. W. Mitchell High School. He played ball for the Central Florida Renegades Connie Mack team in Florida when he was drafted.

From 2003-2006, in the minor leagues, he averaged 7.5 hits, 2 walks, and 10 strikeouts per 9 innings for Yankees' farm teams.^[1] While playing for the Trenton Thunder in 2006, Clippard threw the franchise's first no-hitter.^[2]

Clippard was called up from the Yankees minor league team the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees on May 20, 2007, and made his debut that day. It was an interleague game against the New York Mets, and he pitched 6 innings, giving up 1 run off the bat of David Wright and 3 hits. He struck out his first major league batter José Reyes on three pitches in the first inning. He recorded his first career hit in his second at-bat off Mets pitcher Scott Schoeneweis, a double to right center in the 6th inning.^[3]

Washington Nationals

Clippard was traded on December 4, 2007, to the Washington Nationals for relief pitcher Jonathan Albaladejo. ^[4] He pitched his first game for the Nationals on June 9, 2008, after Odalis Pérez was placed on the 15-day disabled list.

In 2009, Tyler was optioned to Washington's Minor League Affiliate, the Syracuse Chiefs (AAA). Despite starting 6 games with the Yankees and 2 in 2007 and 2 for the Nationals in 2008, he was converted to a relief pitcher for the 2009 campaign. He appeared in 20 games and posting an outstanding 0.92 ERA and 42 strikeouts in 39 innings, finishing with a 4-1 record before being called up to the Washington Nationals on June 21, 2009. As of the end of the 2009 season, he has posted a strong 2.69 ERA through 60 1/3 innings, with 67 strikeouts.

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