Phil Brassington

Phillip Brassington (born 19 April 1970, in Canberra, Australia) is an Australian right-handed pitcher.

After a year of college baseball with the Lamar University Cardinals, Brassington was drafted by Kansas City Royals in 5th Round (133rd overall) of 1993 amateur entry draft and played the 1993 season with the Eugene Emeralds as a starting pitcher where he finished with a season ERA of 2.42.

For ten years, Brassingtons professional career was plagued by elbow, shoulder and rotator cuff injuries, but still managed to make the 1999 and 2000 US Northern League All-Star teams and play in the Australian Baseball League on and off throughout its existence. He also debuted for the Australian national baseball team in 1996. Brassington played his last full season of professional baseball until 2003 with Allentown in the independent Northeast League.

After Brassington tore his labrum in half, he was told his pitching career may be over. However, instead of giving away his career, Brassington worked on his knuckleball to keep him in the sport and after tinkering with it in a year of local club ball with Tuggeranong Vikings in Canberra, Brassington was selected for the 2006 World Baseball Classic and pitched against Venezuela.^[1]

Brassington wasn't selected for the 2009 World Baseball Classic, however he played for Australia Provincial in Claxton Shield 2008 and South Australia in Claxton Shield 2009.

Brassington played for the Canberra Cavalry in the 2011–12 ABL season and plays locally for the Tuggeranong Vikings in Canberra.

Brassington made one appearance in the 2012–2013 ABL season for the Perth Heat against the Cavalry.

References

↑ Stockman, J. (27 February 2006) Australian Baseball Federation Classic provides Brassington a shot

External links

Australian Baseball Profile

Career statistics and player information from The Baseball Cube

Australia 2006 World Baseball Classic roster

4 Gavin Fingleson 6 Rodney van Buizen 7 Trent Durrington 8 Trent Oeltjen 11 Adam Bright 13 Matthew Gahan 14 Dave Nilsson 15 Paul Mildren 16 Luke Hughes 17 Brett Roneberg 18 Glenn Williams 19 Rich Thompson 21 Phil Brassington 22 Brendan Kingman 23 Paul Rutgers 24 John Stephens 25 Tom Brice 26 Justin Huber 27 Damian Moss 29 Brad Harman 30 Tristan Crawford 31 Craig Anderson 35 Matthew Kent 39 Phil Stockman 42 Peter Moylan 44 Wayne Lundgren 47 Andrew Graham 48 Michael Collins 57 Adrian Burnside Josh Hill Ryan Rowland-Smith

Manager Jon Deeble

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