Curt Schilling was nice enough today to offer his #38 to Jason Bay...for a price, which would go to Schilling's Curt's Pitch charity.
Boston.com tonight introduces us to Jason Bay.
• Full name: Jason Raymond Bay. He'll turn 30 on Sept. 20. He's 6-foot-2, 205 pounds and was born in Trail, B.C., Canada.
• He and his wife, Kristen, have one daughter, Addison, who will turn 2 in November.
• His sister, Lauren, is a professional softball player who pitched for Canada in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
• He is friends with fellow Trail native and Edmonton Oilers center Shawn Horcoff and hails from the same town as St. Louis Blues defenseman Barrett Jackman.
• He played hockey as a youngster, but quit in favor of baseball. Like many Canadian ballplayers, he grew up idolizing Larry Walker, also a B.C. native. He rooted for the Mariners as a kid. He was a member of the 1990 Trail Little League team that represented Canada in the Little League World Series.
• He played two years at Gonzaga, earning first-team All-West Coast Conference honors as a junior and senior. He was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 22nd round, 2000.
• New England connection: He started playing for the Vermont Expos of the New York-Penn League and played two seasons ('99, 2000) for the Chatam A's of the Cape Cod League.
• He spent time in A-ball in 2002, hitting for average and power. He was dealt in March of that year to the Mets, who flipped him to the Padres for reliever Steve Reed at the 2002 trade deadline.
• He made his MLB debut May 23, 2003. His first big-league hit was a ninth-inning homer off of Arizona reliever (and future Red Sox reliever) Matt Mantei.
• An Elmer Dessens pitch fractured his wrist two days later and was sent to the minors for rehab.
• He was a teammate of former Sox infielder and current NESN studio analyst Lou Merloni on the 2003 Padres.
• In August 2003, he was traded with Oliver Perez and Cory Stewart to the Pirates for Brian Giles. He finished the year with a .287 average, 4 homers and 13 RBI in 87 at-bats. He reached base safely in his final 14 games, though he was bothered by a torn right labrum that required offseason surgery.
2 comments:
I just heard on NESN that Bay will be wearing Jersery number 44 not number 38.
What does this mean? does it mean there is hope for Curt?
Curt offered to give up the #38 if Bay would make a donation to his charity.
The number decision was likely made over the phone so the uniform was ready for the game, depending on his affection for the #38 the move could still happen.
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