Jason Beverlin spent a good portion of his cup of coffee
with the Tigers. He went to high school
at Dondero High School in Royal Oak, MI.
He started his career with the West Michigan White Caps in 1994, the
teams first year of existence. It was a
Oakland Athletics class A club at the time.
He bounced around the minors and around various major league farm
systems until 2002 when he made his major league debut with the Cleveland
Indians at a 28 year old rookie. He was
brought in to a game in the third inning as a reliever for Jaret Wright who was
getting bombed by Jason’s original franchise, the Oakland Athletics. Jason pitched 2.1 innings and gave up 1 run
on 2 hits and 2 walks while K’ing 3.
Jason would get in 3 more games for the Indians and pitched 5 more
innings but did not record a decision and posted a 7.36 ERA. The Tiges picked up Jason who was waived by
the Indians about two weeks after his debut.
Jason got in three games for the Tiges as a starter in all three. He faced the Kansas City Royals in his first
game and pitched 2.2 innings before getting pulled. He had given up 6 runs on 7 hits and 3 walks
and picked up the loss. In his second
game he faced the New York Yankees in Yankee Stadium and went 4.2 innings
giving up only 3 runs on 3 hits and 3 walks and picked up the loss. His last game was the second to last game of
the bad 2002 season and he faced the Toronto Blue Jays at Skydome. He lasted 5 innings and gave up 6 runs on 8
hits but no walks. He was tagged with
the loss for this game as well. The 2002
Tigers were 55-106 with a 4.92 ERA.
Jason was 0-3 with a 9.49 ERA as a Tiger. At the end of the season he was released and
picked up by the Indians again but would never pitch in the majors again. He retired from baseball and the Indians in
2007 at the age of 33 having pitched 19.2 innings in 7 major league games. As a fan who sponsors his web page on
Baseball-Reference puts it, “at least he got a cup of coffee, I never got out
of Little League.” Jason has gone into
coaching at the college level and today is the head coach for the
Bethune-Cookman University team.
Ivan Rodriguez
Bob Schultz ended his career in the majors as a Detroit
Tiger. He was in the Marines during
World War II and upon getting out of the service in 1946 he started his career
in pro ball as a lefty pitcher. He
started in the majors in 1951 as a 27 year old rookie. He was with the Cubs for parts of three
seasons and was 9-13 when he was traded for Ralph Kiner, Joe Garagiola, Howie
Pollet and George Metkovich. Ok, he was
traded with Gene Hermanski, Toby Atwell, Preston Ward, Gene Freese, Tocy Atwell
and $150,000. But he can still say he
was traded for Ralph Kiner. He was 0-2
with the Pirates and back in their farm system when the Tigers purchased him in
the winter of 1954. He was with the
Tiges in April in 1954 when he got he call form the bull pen for his debut as a
Tiger. The game was 4-2 in favor of the
Cleveland Indians in the 7th inning.
Bob started the inning and gave up a lead walk to Bobby Avila. He then got Lary Doby to hit into a fielder
choice. Then a double to Al Rosen
brought in Doby. Ralph Kiner, now
playing for the Indians, hit a fly ball to short for the second out and Vic
Wertz ended the inning with a fly ball to second. In the eighth Bob gave up a single to George
Strickland and then moved him to second on a wild pitch. He then gave up a walk to Hank Foiles before
getting Herb Score to line out to first.
Bob was then pulled for Bud Black.
Stickland and Foiles would score on a triple giving Bob a final line
score of 1.1 innings pitched with 3 earned runs on 2 hits and 2 walks for no
decision and a 20.25 ERA. That would be
his final total as a Tiger as well. He
went to Buffalo for the rest of the season and never made it back to the
majors. He was done in pro ball in
1956. He was in Nashville and worked as
a house painter in 1979 when he was shot and killed in a bar argument at a VFW
hall bar at the age of 55.
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