Dillon Tate
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| Dillon Tate | |||||||||||||||
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 Tate with the Baltimore Orioles in 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| Free agent | |||||||||||||||
| Pitcher | |||||||||||||||
| Born: May 1, 1994 Harbor City, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| July 29, 2019, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics (through 2025 season) | |||||||||||||||
| Win–loss record | 7–14 | ||||||||||||||
| Earned run average | 4.09 | ||||||||||||||
| Strikeouts | 178 | ||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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Dillon Michael Tate (born May 1, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays. Tate played college baseball at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Texas Rangers selected him in the first round of the 2015 MLB draft and traded him to the New York Yankees during the 2016 season. He was traded to the Orioles close to the 2018 trade deadline and made his MLB debut with them in 2019.
Tate attended Claremont High School in Claremont, California, graduating in 2012.[1] He made the school's baseball team, but received little playing time as a freshman. He then began to train at the Major League Baseball (MLB) Urban Youth Academy in Compton, California.[2] He was not selected in the MLB draft out of high school.[3]
Tate enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he played college baseball for the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos.[4] The Gauchos and the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles were the only two Division I programs to offer Tate a scholarship.[5] As a freshman, he appeared in four games, pitching three innings, and had a 9.00 earned run average (ERA).[3][6] That summer, he grew from 165 pounds (75 kg) to 200 pounds (91 kg) through weight training.[3] As a sophomore, he served as the Gauchos' closer, finishing the season with a 1.45 ERA, 12 saves, and 46 strikeouts.[6] Tate was expected to enter his junior season in 2015 as the closer again, but was converted into a starting pitcher after an injury to one of the team's starters.[7][8][9] He started 14 games in his junior year, pitching to an 8–5 win–loss record with a 2.26 ERA and 111 strikeouts in 103+1⁄3 innings pitched.[1][3]