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2007 Upper Deck - Joe Kennedy
| Name: | Joe Kennedy | Position: | Pitcher |
| Team: | Oakland Athletics | Card Year: | 2007 |
| Card Brand: | Upper Deck | Card Number: | 858 |
| Condition: | Good | Date Entered: | 2009-09-16 |
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| Info for Joe Kennedy from the Baseball-Reference.com Bullpen |
| Joe Kennedy was selected by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the eighth round of the 1998 amateur draft and made his pro debut that year with the Princeton Devil Rays that summer, going 6-4 with a 3.76 ERA in 13 starts. He spent the entire 1999 campaign with the Hudson Valley Renegades, where he went 6-5 with a 2.65 ERA and 101 strikeouts in 16 starts. He led the New York-Penn League in strikeouts, starts and innings pitched (95). He was 5th in ERA and made the NYPL All-Star team as the top left-handed pitcher. The next season he continued to put up impressive numbers, this year with the Charleston RiverDogs, with whom he was 11-6 with a 3.31 ERA and 142 strikeouts in 136 innings. He had a 17-strikeout game, the best in the affiliated US minor leagues that year. |