Ryan Cameron

Ryan Elliott Cameron

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 175 lb.
• School University of Massachusetts Amherst
• High School Mount Greylock High School

• Born September 13, 1977 in North Adams, MA USA

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Biographical Information

Ryan Cameron pitched in the minor leagues from 1998 to 2007. He spent part or all of five seasons at Triple A, but never reached the major leagues.

Drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 11th round of the 1998 amateur draft, he began his professional career with an inauspicious 0-6 record, but a promising 47 strikeouts in 40 1/3 innings. The next season, 1999, he had a 2.04 ERA and 10.0 K/9 IP ratio in 21 games. Moving to the rotation for 2000, he went 13-7 with a 3.59 ERA in 26 starts, striking out 168 batters in 160 1/3 frames. He fell to 7-7, 4.98 in 97 2/3 innings in 2001, with his strikeout average falling to less than one per inning for the first time in his career; he reached Triple A for the first time in 2002, allowing 8 earned runs in 1/3 of an inning for a 108.00 ERA for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. He averaged 10.6 K/9 IP that year between two teams. In March 2003, he was traded to the Boston Red Sox as the player to be named later in a deal that sent pitcher Javier Lopez to the Rockies. He spent two years in the Red Sox chain, going 7-14 in 70 games, before moving to the Philadelphia Phillies organization, where he spent the last three seasons of his career. He had a 2.55 ERA and a 10.1 K/9 IP ratio his first campaign there, then -- in his only full season at Triple A -- went 6-2, 3.19 in 45 appearances for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons in 2006. He finished his career at 29 years old in 2007, averaging more than a strikeout per inning, but also 11.3 H/9 IP with a 5.69 ERA.