finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1984 right hermantown , minnesota 1980 september 28 12 -- 16 4.78 118 pitcher cleveland indians win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts august 17 5 march 1957 jerry ujdur
 detroit tigers jerry ujdur right
jerry ujdur

gerald raymond ujdur -lrb- born march 5 , 1957 -rrb- is a former major league baseball pitcher .
ujdur pitched in all or part of five seasons from through .
ujdur played college baseball for the minnesota golden gophers .
he was selected by the detroit tigers in the fourth round of the 1978 major league baseball draft , and began his career with the lakeland tigers that year , finishing with a 5-2 win-loss record and a 2.39 earned run average -lrb- era -rrb- .
after pitching in 19 games for the montgomery rebels in 1979 , he started the 1980 season with the evansville triplets .
he went 9-4 with a 3.37 era before he was promoted to the main tigers roster .
ujdur made his debut on august 17 , 1980 , and finished the season with a win and a 7,59 era in nine games .
in 1981 , he pitched in four games for the tigers , but spent most of the year with evansville , where he had a 7-10 record and a 4.09 era in 25 starts .
ujdur spent 1982 as a starter for the tigers for most of the season .
that year , he had a 10-10 record and a 3.69 era and finished second in the american league in hits per nine innings with 7.58 .
he was also named tigers ' rookie pitcher of the year .
after a couple of poor starts to begin 1983 , the tigers placed him back in the minors .
the following year after spring training , the tigers released him , and he was picked up by the indians ; he was nearly not able to join a team due to how late in spring the tigers cut him .
he began the 1984 season with the maine guides and spent most of the season there , going 14-8 with a 3.69 era , which led to the indians calling him up in september .
with the indians , he had a 1-2 record and a 6.91 era in four games .
he was released by the indians in march 1985 , and retired from the game afterwards .
