Erich Uelmen
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| Erich Uelmen | |
|---|---|
| Saraperos de Saltillo – No. 41 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born: May 19, 1996 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. | |
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| July 22, 2022, for the Chicago Cubs | |
| MLB statistics (through 2023 season) | |
| Win–loss record | 2–1 |
| Earned run average | 5.79 |
| Strikeouts | 22 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Teams | |
Erich Uelmen (born May 19, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Saraperos de Saltillo of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies.
Uelmen attended Faith Lutheran High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he played baseball. In 2014, his senior year, he earned All-State honors after going 9–1 with a 1.19 ERA, striking out 89 batters over 58+2⁄3 innings alongside batting .510.[1] Undrafted in the 2014 Major League Baseball draft, he enrolled at California Polytechnic State University where he played college baseball.
In 2015, Uelmen's freshman year at Cal Poly, he appeared in 16 games (making one start) in which he went 0–1 with a 7.08 ERA over twenty innings.[2] That summer, he played in the Northwoods League with the Eau Claire Express.[3] As a sophomore at Cal Poly in 2016, Uelmen went 5–3 with a 3.68 ERA, striking out seventy over 93 innings.[4] Following the season, he played in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox, going 2–1 with a 4.87 ERA over twenty innings.[5] In 2017, his junior season, he pitched to a 4–8 record with a 2.93 ERA over 15 starts, earning Big West Conference Second Team honors.[6] After the season, he was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the fourth round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft.[7][8]