page_title: Mike Leake
section_title: 2011
hierarchical_section_title: Mike Leake / Professional career / Cincinnati Reds / 2011
caption_attribution_description: Reds at Orioles June 25, 2011
context_page_description: Michael Raymond Leake is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, and Seattle Mariners.
  Leake played college baseball for the Arizona State Sun Devils of Arizona State University. The Reds selected Leake in the first round of the 2009 MLB draft. They promoted him to the major leagues at the start of the 2010 season without having him pitch in the minor leagues, making him the 21st, and most recent, player to go straight from the draft to the major league team that drafted him.
  Leake pitched for the Reds through 2015, at which point he was traded to the Giants. A free agent that offseason, he signed with the Cardinals. The Cardinals traded him to the Mariners in 2017. He was traded for a third time in his career in 2019 as the Arizona Diamondbacks agreed to acquire him at the Trade Deadline.
context_section_description: Entering spring training, Leake was considered the sixth man in the rotation, and faced starting the season in the minor leagues. However, Johnny Cueto and Homer Bailey both went on the DL, and Leake made the rotation out of spring. He won his first two decisions, posting a 5.40 ERA. Leake was optioned to triple-A for the first time in his career on May 14 to make room for reliever José Arredondo to come off the DL. Arredondo's rehab assignment had reached the maximum 30 days, he had pitched well, and was out of options. Leake was called back up on May 28 and started against the Braves, earning the win and pitching six innings of one-run ball.
caption: Leake in 2011
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