Chris Rauth

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Christopher Maurice Rauth

  • Bats Right, Throws Right
  • Height 6' 2", Weight 180 lb.

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Biographical Information[edit]

Chris Rauth pitched eight seasons in the minors, peaking at AAA.

Rauth set an Ithaca College record with 12 wins in a season. He joined Jim Katschke, Dan Olsson and Bob Stocker as the NCAA Division III All-American pitchers that year. The New York Mets took him in the 15th round of the 1985 amateur draft.

He was 6-5 with a 3.84 ERA in his pro debut with the Little Falls Mets, tying for the team lead in wins. He split 1986 between the Lynchburg Mets (4-6, 4.92) and Columbia Mets (7-4, 3.15). He tied for 8th in the Mets chain in wins, tied for first in losses and was 6th in strikeouts (115). With Lynchburg in '87, the right-hander had a 6-10, 4.67 record. He tied for 5th in the Carolina League in losses, was 5th in hits allowed (182), tied Mark Gilles for 5th in runs allowed (101) and ranked 4th in whiffs (109, between Kevin Wickander and Kris Roth). He was also fourth among Mets minor leaguers in Ks.

Chris improved to 12-9, 3.18 with the 1988 St. Lucie Mets, walking only 25 in 164 1/3 IP. He tied Mike Hansen for 10th in the Florida State League in victories and tied for fifth with three shutouts. In the Mets farm system, he tied for 7th in wins and tied for second in shutouts (only Blaine Beatty had more).

Moving up to the AA Jackson Mets, he was 6-13 with a 3.81 ERA. He was second in the Texas League in losses (one behind Chris Nichting), tied for first with 10 hit batsmen and led the Mets system in defeats. Leaving the Mets chain, he split 1990 between the independent Reno Silver Sox (2-7, 6.12) and the Toronto Blue Jays' Knoxville Blue Jays (0-1, 6.75 in 8 G) while battling tendinitis issues. He then sat out 1991.

In 1992, he returned to the Mets organization and spent the season in AAA with the Tidewater Tides (5-7, 5.12). He pitched for BBC Grosseto in 1993 and was 8-6 with a 2.49 ERA, holding opponents to a .284 OBP thanks to 25 BB in 115 2/3 IP. He tied Herick Torres and Roberto Radaelli for 7th in Serie A1 in wins and was only .17 behind ERA leader Bob Galasso. He faded to 3-4, 4.91 for Grosseto in 1994.

Rauth was teaching at the Buffalo School of Baseball when the baseball strike of 1994-1995 was going on. He fellow Buffalo instructor Rick Lancellotti in joining the replacement Florida Marlins for spring training. When the strike ended, he found work with the independent Adirondack Lumberjacks, going 9-6 with a 2.47 ERA and only 18 BB in 105 2/3 IP. He tied Alan Sontag for third in the Northeast League in wins and was second to Jeff Letourneau in ERA.

Overall, Rauth was 57-68 with a 4.09 ERA in 179 minor league games (161 starts), with 329 BB and 1,142 H in 1,061 IP; he fanned 619. He hit .133/.242/.143. In Italy, he went 11-10 with a 3.30 ERA in 23 games.

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