Mike Timlin

Michael August Timlin

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 4", Weight 210 lb.
• School Southwestern University
• High School Midland (TX) High School
• Debut April 8, 1991
• Final Game September 28, 2008
• Born March 10, 1966 in Midland, TX USA

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Biographical Information

Mike Timlin pitched eighteen years and over 1,000 games in the majors. Of those games, he has only started four. The most wins he had in one season was as a rookie when he won 11. His top save total was in 1996 when he had 31 for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Mike never pitched in AAA as a Blue Jays prospect, instead making the major league roster in 1991 during Spring Training after having played for the AA Knoxville Blue Jays.

He pitched in four World Series - two with Toronto and two with the Boston Red Sox - and was on the winning side all four times. He got the final out of the 1992 World Series when he fielded a bunt back to him off the bat of Otis Nixon of the Atlanta Braves to give the Blue Jays the first World Series championship ever by a team based outside the United States.

In his first year of eligibility for the Hall of Fame in 2014, he failed to receive a single vote and dropped off the ballot. On October 1, 2017, he was in the crowd at a Jason Aldean open-air concert in Las Vegas, NV when a shooter began firing at the crowd with semi-automatic weapons from a nearby hotel window, perpetrating the worst massacre in U.S. history. He managed to escape unhurt.

Notable Achievements

• AL Games Pitched Leader (2005)
• 30 Saves Seasons: 1 (1996)
• Won four World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays (1992 & 1993) and the Boston Red Sox (2004 & 2007)

Related Sites

• Mike Timlin at the SABR Bio Project