caption bats birth_place debutyear statyear statvalue team position statlabel debutdate birth_date number image article_title debutteam name throws
fields with the houston astros right hull , georgia 2013 august 7 , 2015 8 -- 10 4.03 157 houston astros relief pitcher win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts april 2 19 august 1985 35 josh fields on july 30 , 2013.jpg josh fields -lrb- pitcher -rrb-
 houston astros josh fields right
josh fields -lrb- pitcher -rrb-

joshua david `` josh '' fields -lrb- born august 19 , 1985 -rrb- is an american professional baseball pitcher for the houston astros of major league baseball .
fields played four seasons for the university of georgia , 2005 -- 08 .
he was selected by the atlanta braves in the second round of the 2007 draft but chose to return to school , then was selected 20th overall in the first round of the 2008 major league baseball draft by the seattle mariners .
he agreed to terms with the mariners on february 13 , 2009 .
fields 's agent for the negotiations was scott boras .
as of may 2011 , fields played for the jackson generals , the mariners ' aa affiliate .
on july 31 , 2011 , fields was traded to the boston red sox in a three-team trade that sent Érik bédard to the red sox .
in the 2012 rule 5 draft , the astros acquired fields from the red sox as the first pick of the draft .
in 2013 he made the astros final 25 man roster and recorded a strikeout against the 1 batter he faced .
