bats birth_place statyear statvalue team position birth_date article_title statlabel name throws
right kempsey , australia 2014 season 18-10 3.52 269 oakland athletics / nashville sounds starting pitcher 14 september 1991 tim atherton
 win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts tim atherton right
tim atherton

timothy ian atherton is an australian born minor league baseball player .
originally signed at 17 as a minor league free agent by minnesota twins as an outfielder , tim was released after 5 games for the twins gulf coast league team .
the san diego padres swooped on him and he was assigned to their arizona league team .
he ended the 2008 season with a .250 batting average but was released by his second organisation within his first year of professional baseball .
atherton converted from the outfield to pitcher 's mound and was a member of the canberra cavalry pitching staff in the inaugural australian baseball league season of 2010/11 .
he managed to gain a 2-3 win-loss record with 3 saves in 27 innings pitched .
on 2 may 2011 atherton was signed as a minor league free agent by the twins for the second time , this time as a pitcher .
in 2013 atherton was picked up by oakland athletics in the triple-a phase of the rule 5 draft .
in 2014 he spent majority of the year with the stockton ports making 1 appearance for the sacramento river cats .
