bgcolor finalyear bats birth_place debutyear statvalue textcolor position finalteam statlabel birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
# 006492 1993 right san diego , california 1993 3-1 2.63 21 white black pitcher mercuries tigers win-loss earned run average strikeouts 28 july 1966 wally trice
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wally trice

walter maurice `` wally '' trice -lrb- born july 28 , 1966 in san diego , california -rrb- played in affiliated minor league baseball from 1988 to 1993 , for the mercuries tigers of the chinese professional baseball league in 1993 and in independent baseball in 1996 .
prior to playing professionally , he attended mar vista high school and then u.s. international university .
selected by the houston astros in the 15th round of the 1988 amateur draft , trice began his professional career that year with the auburn astros .
in 15 games -lrb- 14 starts -rrb- , he went 8-4 with six complete games and a 1.90 era , while striking out 107 batters and walking only 24 in 104 innings .
he also allowed only 83 hits .
he was second in the new york-penn league in strikeouts , behind only mike sodders , who had 119 .
the following season , trice went 16-4 with a 2.57 era in 28 games -lrb- 27 starts -rrb- for the osceola astros .
he led the florida state league in victories , while his three shutouts tied for second in the loop .
he also finished third in innings -lrb- 182 1/3 -rrb- and hits allowed -lrb- 179 -rrb- .
in 1990 , with the columbus mudcats , trice went 6-7 with a 4.02 era in 33 games -lrb- 22 starts -rrb- .
his 17 home runs allowed were the second-most in the southern league .
he became a relief pitcher in 1991 , splitting the year between the burlington astros and jackson generals .
in 55 appearances , he went 5-5 with a 2.08 era and 19 saves , while striking out 80 batters in 69 1/3 innings .
he finished third in the midwest league in saves with 18 -lrb- he had only one with the generals of the texas league -rrb- .
after joining the cleveland indians system following the 1991 season , he returned to the starting rotation for part of 1992 .
in 33 games -lrb- 14 starts -rrb- , he went 5-7 with a 4.04 era for the canton-akron indians .
with canton-akron again in 1993 , he went 3-2 with a 5.61 era in 19 games -lrb- three starts -rrb- .
he also pitched briefly with the mercuries tigers of the chinese professional baseball league that year , going 3-1 with a 2.63 era .
he resurfaced with the amarillo dillas of the independent texas-louisiana league in 1996 , going 1-3 with a 6.82 era in eight games -lrb- five starts -rrb- .
overall , trice went 44-32 with a 3.38 era in 189 games -lrb- 84 starts -rrb- in his american professional career .
