Neal Cotts
[edit] Biography
Born on March 25, 1980 in Belleville, Illinois, Neal Cotts (Neal James Cotts) played for the Chicago White Sox for his entire 4 year career. Cotts broke into the bigs on August 12, 2003 with the Chicago White Sox, and put up a 5.65 ERA in 65.1 innings pitched in 2004, his rookie year.
Most people believe that Neal Cotts's best season was 2005, when he posted a 1.94 ERA and struck out 58 batters.
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[edit] Pitching Stats
| 2003
| CHI
| A
| 4
| 4
| 1
| 1
| 8.10
| 10
| 12
| 12
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 13.1
| 15
| 1
| 17
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
| 2004
| CHI
| A
| 56
| 1
| 4
| 4
| 5.65
| 58
| 45
| 41
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 65.1
| 61
| 13
| 30
| 2
| 8
| 3
|
| 2005
| CHI
| A
| 69
| 0
| 4
| 0
| 1.94
| 58
| 15
| 13
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 60.1
| 38
| 1
| 29
| 5
| 3
| 4
|
| 2006
| CHI
| A
| 70
| 0
| 1
| 2
| 5.17
| 43
| 33
| 31
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 54
| 64
| 12
| 24
| 6
| 3
| 3
|
| Total
|
|
| 199
| 5
| 10
| 7
| 4.52
| 169
| 105
| 97
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 193
| 178
| 27
| 100
| 13
| 14
| 10
|
[edit] Fielding Stats
| 2003
| CHI
| A
| P
| 4
| 4
| 13.1
| 1
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 1.000
|
| 2004
| CHI
| A
| P
| 56
| 1
| 65.1
| 1
| 8
| 1
| 1
| 0
| 2
| 5
| 1
| 0
| .900
|
| 2005
| CHI
| A
| P
| 69
| 0
| 60.1
| 2
| 14
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 3
| 2
| 1
| 1
| 1.000
|
| 2006
| CHI
| A
| P
| 70
| 0
| 54
| 4
| 9
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 2
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 1.000
|
| Total
|
|
| P
| 199
| 5
| 193
| 8
| 32
| 1
| 5
| 0
| 7
| 9
| 2
| 1
| .976
|
[edit] Batting Stats
| 2003
| CHI
| A
| 4
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| .000
| .000
| .000
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
| 2004
| CHI
| A
| 56
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 1.000
| 1.000
| 2.000
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
| 2005
| CHI
| A
| 69
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| .000
| .000
| .000
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
| 2006
| CHI
| A
| 70
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| .000
| .000
| .000
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
| Total
|
|
| 199
| 1
| 0
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 1.000
| 1.000
| 2.000
| 1
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
|
[edit] Transactions
- Selected by Oakland Athletics in the 2nd round of the free-agent draft (June 5, 2001 - signed June 13, 2001).
- Traded by Oakland Athletics with Daylon Holt to Chicago White Sox (December 16, 2002) completing trade in which Chicago White Sox traded Keith Foulke, Mark Johnson, Joe Valentine and cash to Oakland Athletics in exchange for Billy Koch and 2 players to be named later (December 3, 2002).
- Traded by Chicago White Sox to Chicago Cubs in exchange for David Aardsma and Carlos Vasquez (November 16, 2006).
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