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Steve Wilson

  • Class
  • Induction
    2016
  • Sport(s)
    Baseball
• Spent all or parts of six season pitching in Major League Baseball with the Texas Rangers (1988), Chicago Cubs (1989-91) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1991-93).
• Was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the fourth round of the 1985 draft (83rd overall pick).
• Made his Major League debut with the Rangers on Sept. 16, 1988.
• Totaled 13 wins, six saves and 252 strikeouts.
• Played for Team Canada at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
• All-Pac 10 North Division First Team 1985; also voted Team MVP and Most Inspirational.
• Career Rankings at UP: Tied for third in complete games with 15,  is sixth in opponents batting average (.203), is eighth in ERA (3.13), and he ranks 10th in K’s per 9.0 innings (7.75).
• His ERA of 1.79 in 1983 still ranks fifth on the program’s all-time single season charts.
• In three years on The Bluff, he compiled 13 wins and two saves, and he fanned 173.
• He also claimed ERA’s of 3.86 in 1984 and 3.22 in 1985, and he held the opposition to a batting average of .193 in 1983, .203 in 1984 and .208 in 1985.
 
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