Ken Ray

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – No. 12

Relief pitcher

Born: November 27, 1974

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

MLB debut

July 10, 1999, for the Kansas City Royals

MLB statistics
(through 2006 season)

Win–loss record

2-1

Earned run average

5.13

Strikeouts

Teams

Kansas City Royals (1999)
Atlanta Braves (2006)
SK Wyverns (2008) (KBO)
La New Bears / Lamigo Monkeys (2010–2012) (CPBL)
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (2013) (NPB)
Lamigo Monkeys (2014) (CPBL)
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (2015–present) (NPB)

Career highlights and awards

1× Japan Series champion (2013)

Kenneth Alan Ray (born November 27, 1974) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals. Ray made his MLB debut on July 10, 1999, for the Royals.

Early career

After briefly pitching for the Royals in 1999, Ray spent years battling arm problems while trying to work his way back onto a major league roster.

Back in the majors

He made a meteoric rise from 2005 to 2006. In 2005, Ray started the season with the independent North Shore Spirit of the Can-Am League before being acquired by the Atlanta Braves organization. He spent the remainder of the season with the Triple-A Richmond Braves.

On April 6, 2006, following an injury to starter Horacio Ramírez, Ray was called up from the Richmond Braves, Atlanta's Triple-A affiliate. In his first appearance for Atlanta in 2006, he struck out Barry Bonds on 3 pitches.

He was claimed off waivers by the Royals in the 2006 offseason. Ray began the 2007 season in Triple-A with the Omaha Royals. He was released on August 18, 2007. On August 30, he was signed by the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. Ray began 2008 pitching for the Triple-A Potros de Tijuana of the Mexican League where he held a 6-3 record and a 3.65 ERA.^[1] Ray signed with the SK Wyverns of the Korea Baseball Organization where he finished 2008.

He currently resides in Arizona with his wife and son.

On May 27, 2009, Ray was signed by the Cleveland Indians, and assigned to their AAA affiliate Columbus Clippers.

By March, 2010, Ray was pitching for the Lanew Bears in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League. In 2010 his ERA of 2.32 helped earn him a renewal, and Ray continues to play for Lanew Bears ( Now the Lamigo Monkeys ).

References

↑ MiLB profile

External links

Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics
Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles current roster

Manager	99 Masataka Nashida

First squad coaching	80 Toru Nimura 88 Takahiro Ikeyama 83 Koichi Isobe 92 Tsuyoshi Yoda 72 Ryoji Moriyama 97 Kenji Furukubo 74 Yasunaga Makishi 76 Osamu Yonemura

Second squad manager/coaching	89 Yosuke Hiraishi 79 Tomoyoshi Oishi 96 Ryo Kawano 93 Daisuke Kusano 75 Shinichiro Koyama 86 Kento Sugiyama 81 Yuichi Yanagisawa 78 Mitsuo Tateishi 87 Tadaharu Sakai 84 Makoto Moriyama

First squad	0 Kenta Kurihara 1 Yuki Matsui 3 Jonny Gomes 4 Mitsutaka Gotoh 6 Kazuya Fujita 7 Kazuo Matsui 8 Toshiaki Imae 11 Takahiro Shiomi 12 Ken Ray 14 Takahiro Norimoto 17 Jake Brigham 22 Kenji Tomura 23 Ryo Hijirisawa 24 Masayoshi Fukuda 25 Akihisa Makida 26 Norihito Kaneto 27 Takero Okajima 29 Shota Koseki 30 Kohei Hasebe 31 Manabu Mima 32 Shintaro Masuda 33 Ginji 34 Yoshitaka Muto 35 Hiroaki Shimauchi 37 Motohiro Shima 40 Zelous Wheeler 41 Koji Aoyama 42 Japhet Amador 43 Kam Mickolio 49 Radhames Liz 55 Tetsuro 58 Wataru Karashima 59 Yasunori Kikuchi 64 Hiroyuki Fukuyama 67 Tatsuro Iwasaki 68 Ryohei Kawamoto

Second squad	00 Toshihito Abe 2 Ryota Yoshimochi 5 Eigoro Mogi 9 Louis Okoye 13 Kodai Hamaya 15 Fumiya Ono 16 Yudai Mori 20 Tomohiro Anraku 21 Yoshinao Kamata 28 Ryota Ishibashi 36 Yasuhito Uchida 38 Yusuke Nishimiya 39 Takahiro Shimotsuma 44 Yuichi Adachi 45 Takashi Kawai 46 Ryota Ito 47 Takahito Otsuka 48 Tadashi Ishimine 50 Takahiro Irino 51 Luciano Fernando 52 Masahi Kato 53 Kazutomo Aihara 54 Takaaki Yokoyama 56 Taishi Nakagawa 57 Takumi Miyoshi 60 Yuri Furukawa 61 Kim Mu-young 62 Susumu Aizawa 63 Rintaro Kitagawa 65 Kengo Horiuchi 66 Ikki Murabayashi 69 Soma Yamauchi

Development	001 Hiroshi Katayama 005 Hirohito Shimai 024 Kazuya Takahori 036 Aoi Enomoto 051 Takahiro Kakizawa 090 Ryuta Konno 121 Sho Miyagawa 122 Takumaru Yaoita 123 Hiroki Ohsakaya 126 Takumi Deguchi 127 Hiroki Yamada 143 Sung Chia-Hao

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