finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1971 left huntington park , california 1970 july 6 7.88 0-0 12 pitcher new york yankees earned run average record strikeouts september 25 12 july 1945 gary jones -lrb- pitcher -rrb-
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gary jones -lrb- pitcher -rrb-

gareth howell `` gary '' jones -lrb- born june 12 , 1945 -rrb- is a former left-handed major league baseball relief pitcher who played in 1970 and 1971 for the new york yankees .
the brother of fellow mlb player steve jones , gary was and 191 pounds .
prior to playing professional baseball , jones attended whittier college .
he was signed as an amateur free agent by the yankees before the 1967 season , and on september 25 , 1970 he made his big league debut with them .
in his first major league appearance , he faced the detroit tigers , pitching two scoreless innings with two hits allowed , one walk , and two strikeouts -lrb- gene lamont and norm cash -rrb- .
he appeared in a total of two games that season , allowing three hits in two innings of work .
his era was 0.00 .
he appeared in 12 games in 1971 , allowing 14 earned runs in 14 innings for a 9.00 era .
he made his final big league appearance on july 6 .
following the season , on december 2 , he was traded by the yankees to the texas rangers for bernie allen .
he was promptly traded by the rangers to the cleveland indians with terry ley , denny riddleberger , and del unser for roy foster , ken suarez , mike paul , and rich hand on that same day .
however , he never played in the majors for the indians , instead pitching for their triple-a affiliate , the portland beavers , in to finish his professional baseball career .
