caption bats birth_place debutyear statyear statvalue team position statlabel debutdate birth_date number image article_title debutteam name throws
mathieson with the yomiuri giants right vancouver , british columbia 2006 2011 season 1 -- 4 6.75 34 yomiuri giants pitcher win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts june 17 27 february 1984 20 scott mathieson 20120513.jpg scott mathieson
 philadelphia phillies scott mathieson right
scott mathieson

scott william mathieson -lrb- born february 27 , 1984 -rrb- is a canadian professional baseball pitcher for the yomiuri giants of nippon professional baseball .
while playing for the langley blaze of the b.c. premier baseball league , mathieson was drafted in the 17th round of the 2002 major league baseball draft -- 509th overall -- by the phillies .
he made his professional debut in the gulf coast league -lrb- gcl -rrb- , going 0 -- 2 with an earned run average of 5.40 in seven games .
in , he went 2 -- 7 with a 5.52 era in the gcl .
that year , he also pitched six perfect innings in one game for the batavia muckdogs of the new york-penn league , including 7 strikeouts .
in , he pitched for the lakewood blueclaws of the south atlantic league , going 8 -- 9 with an era of 4.32 and 112 strikeouts .
in , he continued to show improvement .
although he went 3 -- 8 for the clearwater threshers of the fsl , he had an era of 4.14 , 118 strikeouts , and only 34 walks in 121 innings .
during the season , he also pitched in the all-star futures game for the world team .
after the season , he was named by baseball america as the phillies ' fourth-best prospect and the organization 's best right-handed pitching prospect .
mathieson made his major league debut june 17 , 2006 , losing to the tampa bay devil rays , 7 -- 2 .
matheison suffered an elbow injury september 2 that required tommy john surgery .
mathieson began a rehabilitation program late in the season , but removed himself from a game august 31 while pitching for double-a reading when he felt `` a strange sensation in his elbow . ''
the phillies announced september 4 that mathieson would not return during 2007 due to inflammation of the ulnar nerve .
mathieson was scheduled to play in the 2007 arizona fall league with the peoria saguaros , but did n't .
as of 2009 , mathieson was pitching for the gcl phillies in his effort to return to the major leagues .
on june 17 , 2010 , mathieson was recalled from the lehigh valley ironpigs to the philadelphia phillies , where he remained for several weeks .
he also spent parts of the 2011 season with the club in addition to his time with lehigh valley .
in november 2011 , mathieson was released from the phillies to pursue pitching opportunities in asia .
he signed with the yomiuri giants in japan on december 2 , 2011 .
