Kane Davis

Kane Thomas Davis

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3", Weight 194 lb.
• High School Spencer (WV) High School
• Debut June 12, 2000
• Final Game September 23, 2007
• Born June 25, 1975 in Ripley, WV USA

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Biographical Information

Kane Davis pitched five seasons in the major leagues and many years in the minors.

After attending Spencer High School in West Virginia, he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 13 th round of the 1993 amateur draft. Davis started his minor league career in 1993, turning age 18 in June of that year. By 1995 he was with the Augusta GreenJackets of the South Atlantic League, going 12-6, and the next year he pitched for the Lynchburg Hillcats of the Carolina League, going 11-9.

He became a free agent after the 1999 season and came up for eight games in the majors in 2000, making his debut with the Cleveland Indians. He later pitched for the Milwaukee Brewers that year after being part of a seven-player trade between the two teams on July 28th. Following that season, he was involved in another big trade, this one involving six players, and he headed to the Colorado Rockies.

Although he had primarily been a starter up to this point, the year 2001 found him converting to a reliever. From 2001-2007 in the minors he was exclusively a reliever. He came back up in 2001 to pitch in 57 games for the Rockies, and was up for 16 games with the New York Mets in 2002 after yet another trade, albeit one where the only return for Colorado was a minor leaguer who would never play in the majors.

While Davis was mostly pitching at the AAA level in the minors, in parts of 2003-1004 and all of 2006 he was in independent ball.

He returned to the majors in 2005 for 15 games, with the Brewers again, and posted an ERA of 2.70 on a team whose ERA was 3.98. After another one-year interval, he was back in the majors in 2007 for 11 games with the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phils won a division title that year but Davis did not appear in postseason play. After years as a reliever, in 2008 he pitched as a starter for Syracuse. He was signed by the Kia Tigers of the Korea Baseball Organization partway through that season and went 2-5 with a 3.98 ERA for them. His final professional season was with the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League in 2010.

Davis pitched in the minors for eight different major league organizations, not counting his second times around with both Milwaukee and with Cleveland. In the majors, he pitched 125 1/3 innings spread out over 107 games, with 96 strikeouts.

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