Jeremy Bonderman

• Detroit Tigers (2003-2010)

Jeremy Allen Bonderman ( born October 28, 1982 in Kennewick, Washington) is an American baseball player who spent his entire career with the Detroit Tigers before they set him free in 2010. Since then, he is without a club.

Career

Jeremy Bonderman was selected during his time at the high school in the MLB Draft in 2001 by the Oakland Athletics in 26th place. In Oakland, however, he came to no use and a year later was traded on 6 July 2002 along with Carlos Pena and Franklyn Germán to the Detroit Tigers. When he finally made ​​his debut in Major League Baseball game against the Minnesota Twins there, he was 20 years old. Subsequently other inserts but in his first season, the 2003 season, he had ultimately have a poor record of six wins and 19 batch. In the last week of the season he was no longer used, so that he did not have to be the first player in 23 years who took down 20 lot in a year. In 2004, he played a lot better than the year before and in the end had a balance of 11-13 wins.

World Series 2006

In 2005, he was the Opening Day starting pitcher for the Tigers and become the youngest player to given this honor since Dwight Gooden in 1986. Overall, eventually he threw even better than in the previous season ( 14-13 wins). One of his best years then followed in 2006, in which he had 14-8 wins and in the playoffs against the New York Yankees won the deciding game. Later he succeeded with the Tigers even the way into the World Series, but which was lost to the St. Louis Cardinals. The following year, he was able to increase its performance again and almost into the All-Star team has been appointed.

Injury and Free Agency

The 2008 season Bonderman missed completely due to a thrombus. From this illness he recovered only slowly and came in the 2009 season only a few bets, as he had because of this recurring pain in the shoulder. It was only during the season of 2010 he came back to regular operations. So he was allowed to play 29 times from the beginning and came up with an ERA of 5:53. After the end of the season he was named a free agent. After that, the newspaper reported The Plain Dealer that the Cleveland Indians consider it would oblige him. But this rumor was not confirmed and he was without a club since then.