finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
2000 right joliet , illinois 1993 june 17 39 -- 47 5.28 455 pitcher minnesota twins win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts july 7 11 april 1970 sean bergman
 detroit tigers sean bergman right
sean bergman

sean frederick bergman -lrb- born april 11 , 1970 -rrb- is a former right-handed major league baseball -lrb- mlb -rrb- pitcher who played for the detroit tigers , san diego padres , houston astros , atlanta braves , and minnesota twins between 1993 and 2000 .
bergman attended joliet catholic high school in joliet , illinois , before attending southern illinois university .
standing at 6 ' 4 '' , 205 pounds , bergman was originally drafted by the tigers 115th overall in the 1991 major league baseball draft .
he spent his first professional season , 1991 , with the niagara falls rapids of the new york-penn league .
in 15 games with them , he went five and seven with a 4.46 earned run average -lrb- era -rrb- .
a starting pitcher , he struck out 77 batters in just over 84 innings of work .
he started the 1992 season with the lakeland tigers , going five and two with them , with a 2.49 era .
he finished his second professional season with a nine and nine record , posting a 3.41 era .
this is because after his promotion to the london tigers , he went only four and seven with a 4.28 era .
although his 1993 minor league season was statistically lackluster -lrb- eight and nine with a 4.38 era -rrb- , he still must have impressed the big-league tigers enough to earn a promotion .
he made his major league debut on july 7 of that year against the minnesota twins .
overall , he went 1 -- 4 in nine games with the tigers in 1993 .
he walked 23 and struck out 19 in 39 innings .
one notable achievement though is that he pitched a complete game in the first start of his career .
he spent most of 1994 with the toledo mud hens , posting an 11 -- 8 record .
he started three games in the majors , going 2 -- 1 .
bergman spent the majority of the 1995 season in the majors .
in 28 games started , he posted a 7 -- 10 record with a 5.12 era .
his 13 wild pitches were second in the league , trailing only al leiter 's 14 .
he did pitch one shutout , which put him ninth in the league .
right before the 1996 season , he was traded by the tigers with cade gaspar and todd steverson to the san diego padres for raul casanova , richie lewis , and melvin nieves .
he spent two seasons with the padres , posting a combined record of 8 -- 12 with an era of 5.17 .
after the 1997 season , he was traded from the padres to the houston astros for james mouton .
1998 was perhaps bergman 's best season -- he posted a record of 12 -- 9 with a 3.72 era .
he walked only 42 batters in 172 innings of work .
in 1998 , he gave up home runs to both sammy sosa and mark mcgwire as they both chased roger maris ' single-season home run record .
he started 1999 with the astros , but after posting a 4 -- 6 record with a 5.36 era for the astros to start the season , he was released and signed with the atlanta braves .
he appeared in relief in six games with the braves , posting a solid 2.84 era .
selected off waivers by the twins after the 1999 season , he was brought in to try to aid a team who had a struggling starting rotation .
he did not make it any better .
he started 14 games for them , posted a 9.66 era , and by late june , was released .
his big league career ended on june 17 , 2000 , but his pro career did not .
he bounced around the minors until 2004 , even playing in japan in 2002 .
overall , he went 39 -- 47 with a 5.28 era in 196 games .
he walked 272 batters and struck out 455 in 750 innings of work .
bergman once was the pitching coach at the ncaa division ii level , coaching the findlay oilers .
he currently lives near bryan , ohio and teaches physical education at hicksville elementary school in hicksville , ohio .
he is also the junior high girls basketball coach for hicksville middle school .
