page_title: Scott Baker (right-handed pitcher)
section_title: New York Yankees
hierarchical_section_title: Scott Baker (right-handed pitcher) / Major league career / New York Yankees
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional baseball player Scott Baker at spring training with the New York Yankees in 2015.
context_page_description: Timothy Scott Baker is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher. He stands 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 215 pounds. He played in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Dodgers. He bats and throws right-handed.
  Baker grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attended Oklahoma State University. He was drafted by the Twins in the second round of the 2003 amateur entry draft and reached the major leagues in 2005. In 2006, he made their starting rotation out of Spring training but struggled and was sent to the minor leagues for most of the rest of the season. Beginning 2007 in the minors, he was called up in May and nearly threw a perfect game on August 31. He went 11–4 in 2008 and posted a 3.45 earned run average. In 2009, Baker logged a career-high 200 innings and started the American League tiebreaker game against the Detroit Tigers which the Twins won to advance to the postseason. He had a 12–9 record in 2010 but battled injuries towards the end of the year and was left out of the Twins' postseason rotation. Injuries limited Baker in 2011 again, but he was the only Twins' pitcher to post a winning record.
context_section_description: In late January 2015, Baker signed with the New York Yankees to a minor league contract worth $1.5 million if he made the major league roster. He struggled in spring training, allowing nine earned runs in ​10 ¹⁄₃ innings before drawing his release on March 29.
caption: Baker with the New York Yankees
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