bats statleague birth_place statvalue position birth_date article_title statlabel name throws
right npb green cove springs , florida 3 -- 5 5.64 53 pitcher 25 june 1971 chris roberts -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts chris roberts left
chris roberts -lrb- baseball -rrb-

christopher eric roberts -lrb- born june 25 , 1971 -rrb- is a retired professional baseball pitcher .
roberts attended middleburg high school in middleburg , florida .
he competed for the united states national baseball team in the 1989 world junior baseball championships , winning gold .
he also appeared in the 1991 pan american games , winning the bronze medal with the game-winning hit in the bronze medal game against the dominican republic national baseball team .
in the tournament , he was named to the all-tournament team .
he was drafted by the philadelphia phillies in the second round of the 1989 major league baseball draft , but did not sign , opting to attend florida state university , where he played college baseball for the florida state seminoles baseball team in the atlantic coast conference of the national collegiate athletic association 's -lrb- ncaa -rrb- division i .
a two-way player at florida state , roberts was named a college baseball all-american by `` collegiate baseball '' in 1992 .
that summer , he competed for the united states in the 1992 summer olympics .
the new york mets drafted roberts in the first round -lrb- 18th overall -rrb- of the 1992 major league baseball draft .
he played for the chiba lotte marines of nippon professional baseball in 2000 .
he retired after the 2001 season .
since 2009 , roberts has served as assistant coach for the stetson university baseball team , which competes in the atlantic sun conference .
