finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
2006 right alameda , california 2005 april 11 2-5 4.26 26 pitcher seattle mariners win-loss earned run average strikeouts april 2 4 july 1974 jeff harris -lrb- baseball -rrb-
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jeff harris -lrb- baseball -rrb-

jeffrey austin harris -lrb- born july 4 , 1974 in alameda , california -rrb- is a former major league baseball relief pitcher who is currently the pitching coach for the lake county captains in the cleveland indians organization .
he batted and threw right-handed .
when harris debuted with the seattle mariners on august 2 , , he was 31 years of age .
this was unusually old for a major league rookie , and was due to his meandering career .
harris , who has done construction jobs , plumbing and landscaping during offseasons , spent six years in the minnesota twins organization before being released in , then played three years for the chico heat of california in the independent western baseball league .
from there , harris tried , but failed to make a team in taiwan , and bounced to china in , when the sars epidemic forced him to leave and go back to north america where he played for the quebec capitales of the canadian-american association of professional baseball .
the mariners found harris playing for the capitales and signed him in june .
harris made eight starts and three long-relief appearances in the 2005 season .
he posted a 2-5 record with 25 strikeouts and a 4.19 era in 54.2 innings .
in , harris pitched in only 3 games early in season .
in december 2006 , the cleveland indians signed harris to a minor league contract .
he became a free agent at the end of the season and retired .
he was named the pitching coach of the arizona league indians for the season .
