John Hussey

John Henry Hussey

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3", Weight 190 lb.

• Born November 22, 1986 in Mornington, Victoria Australia

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Biographical Information

John Hussey has pitched in the US (reaching AA), Australia and the Czech Republic.

He had a 14.73 ERA for Australia in the 2004 World Junior Championship. He was signed by San Diego Padres scout Trevor Schumm in November 2004. He was 1-3 with a 6.44 ERA for the AZL Padres the next summer but improve to 3-1, 2.44 in a return engagement in 2006. In '07, he pitched for the Fort Wayne Tincaps (0-5, 7.50) and Eugene Emeralds (4-5, 6.66). He tied Mike Ekstrom for 7th in the Padres chain in losses. He then missed all of 2008 due to injury.

Returning to the field in 2009, he struggled for the AZL Padres (2-2, 10.20 ERA, 2.40 WHIP). He was 4-3 with a 6.35 ERA for the 2010 Tincaps then missed the 2011 and 2012 seasons. In the 2012-2013 Australian Baseball League, he was a solid 3-2 with 3 saves and a 2.77 ERA for the Melbourne Aces. Returning to the US for 2013, he pitched for Fort Wayne (2-0, 1.59 in 6 G) and the Lake Elsinore Storm (2-3, 6.49 in 35 G). He had a 5-5, 3.97 record for the Aces in 2013-2014, tying for 4th in wins and missing the top-ten in strikeouts by one.

Moving up to AA in 2014, he was 5-5 with a 4.23 ERA for the San Antonio Missions to end his US career; he had gone 23-27 with a 5.69 ERA in 152 minor league games. He was 3-3 with a 3.42 ERA for Technika Brno in the 2015 Czech Extraliga regular season, finishing among the leaders in strikeouts (48, 10th), ERA (6th, between Petr Minařík and Tomáš Duffek) and WHIP (1.18, 4th, between Radim Chroust and Jan Tomek). In 2016, he was player-coach and was 5-5 with a 4.17 ERA. He was 8th in ERA (between Jeff Barto and Minařík), 7th in WHIP (between Barto and Ondřej Satoria), 4th in K/9 (12.2, between Alex Lukashevich and Jason Jarvis), tied Scott Mulhearn for 7th in K:BB (2.5:1), tied Jakub Černík for 6th in wins and tied Barto for the strikeout lead with 105.

In '17, he improved to 6-5, 2.45. He tied Jan Novák for 2nd in K (116) and tied for 9th in wins but fell out of the top ten in ERA despite a better mark. Moving to Draci Brno the next summer, he allowed one earned run in two innings in a relief outing against Neptunus in the 2018 European Cup, replacing Chroust. In the regular season, he was 2-0 with 3 saves and a 0.76 ERA. He then went 5-3 in the postseason. He was second to Barto in ERA in the regular season and led in saves.

Hussey was 1-0 with a 0.93 ERA in the 2019 CEB Cup, finishing 6th in ERA (the lowest of anyone to allow an earned run), 9th in opponent average (.200, between Elvis Gomez and Sergii Shtapura), 4th in IP (9 2/3, between Jose Diaz and Yorfrank Lopez) and tying Mike Bolsenbroek and Gomez for 9th in strikeouts. In the Czech regular season, he went 5-1 with a save and a 2.00 ERA (2-2 with 3 saves in the postseason). He tied for 5th in victories, was 7th in ERA (between Boris Bokaj and Jarvis) and was 4th in WHIP (between Satoria and Chroust). In 2020, he moved to Hrosi Brno, his third team based in Brno. He was 3-0 with a 0.53 ERA in the COVID-19-shortened regular season (2-0 in the postseason). He would've won the ERA title had he qualified.

The Australian coached for the Czech team in the 2021 U23 European Championship. He only pitched one game for Hrosi Brno that summer. In '22, he was 1-0 with two saves and a 3.18 ERA in the regular season. He tied Barto for third in saves. By this point, the Czech postseason had expanded while the "regular" season had contracted. He coached for the Czech national team in the 2023 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers as they qualified for the 2023 World Baseball Classic and remained with them for the latter event as their pitching coach.

He was 2-2 with a save and a 3.64 ERA, between the 2023 regular season and postseason. He then coached for the Czechs in the 2023 European Championship; he and Duffek are both listed as pitching coach. For Hrosi Brno in 2024, the 37-year-old was 4-3 with four saves and a 2.56 ERA. He was 9th in ERA (between Jan Vašourek and Duffek), 9th in WHIP (1.11, between Toru Murata and Bokaj), 4th in K/BB (4.9:1), 6th in strikeouts (73, between Cam Liss and Ondřej Vank).

Through 2024, he is among the career Extraliga leaders (regular season and postseason combined) in pitcher Wins Above Replacement (tied Jan Homolka for 15th at 12.3), ERA (2.79, 17th, between Bokaj and Barto), strikeouts (684, 10th, between Michal Kočí and Satoria), wins (46, 19th, between Matěj Hušek and Daniel Mráz), WHIP (1.14, 10th, between Satoria and Leoš Kubát), saves (15, tied for 8th with Mráz), K/9 (10.1, 6th), BB/9 (2.3, 12th-lowest, between Minařík and Jakub Jonák), K/BB (4.3:1, 6th, between Jon-Jon Robles and Martin Schneider), strikeout percentage (26.8, 4th), opponent average (.231, 13th, between Trevor Caughey and fellow Aussie Steven Chambers), opponent slugging (.310, 13th) and opponent OPS (598, 9th, between Bokaj and Kubát).