Greg Brummett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1967
Place of Birth: Wichita, Kansas, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Greg Brummett
- Gregory Scott "Spike" Brummett (born April 20, 1967) is a former right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants and Minnesota Twins in 1993. Prior to playing professionally, Brummett attended Wichita State University.
- With them, he won the 1989 College World Series Most Outstanding Player award while a senior.
- He is the only player from Wichita State University to win that award.
- In 1989, he tied for the Division I lead in wins with Kirk Dressendorfer and Scott Erickson.
- That total also tied him with Bryan Oelkers for most wins ever by a Wichita State pitcher. To close out his collegiate career, he had 13 straight victories.
- Overall, he had 43 wins, 59 starts and 424 innings pitched in his collegiate career.
- He also had 364 strikeouts. Brummett was drafted by the Giants in the 11th round of the 1989 amateur draft.
- He played for two different minor league teams in 1989, the San Jose Giants and the Everett Giants.
- For San Jose, he went 0-1 with a 5.59 ERA in two games.
- For Everett, he went 4-2 with a 2.88 ERA in 14 games (10 starts). In 1990, Brummett played for the Clinton Giants, going 2-2 with a 3.51 ERA in six games (four starts).
- He again played for Clinton in 1991, going 10-5 with a 2.72 ERA in 16 games.
- Brummett split the 1992 season with the San Jose Giants and the Phoenix Firebirds.
- He appeared in 19 games for the Firebirds, going 10-4 with a 2.61 ERA.
- In three games with Phoenix, he went 0-1 with a 7.71 ERA. He spent about half of the 1993 season in the minors and half in the big leagues.
- In the minors, he played for Phoenix, going 7-7 with a 3.62 ERA in 18 starts.
- On May 29, he made his major league debut, against the Atlanta Braves, pitching 6?2/3 innings, striking out three batters (all three were Ron Gant) and earning the win.
- He would end up pitching eight games for the Giants, going 2-3 with a 4.70 ERA. On September 1, 1993, he was the player to be named later in a deal that originally took place on August 28.
- The Giants sent a player to be named later (Brummett), Aaron Fultz and minor leaguer Andres Duncan to the Twins for Jim Deshaies.
- Brummett would start five games for the Twins, going 2-1 with a 5.74 ERA.
- Overall, he went 4-4 with a 5.08 ERA in 13 big league games.
- He played his final game on September 30. Although his big league career was over, his professional career was not.
- In fact, he played in 1994 for the Pawtucket Red Sox of the Boston Red Sox organization and the Salt Lake Buzz in the Twins organization.
- He went 1-1 with a 5.27 ERA in eight games for the Red Sox and 4-3 with a 5.53 ERA in 13 games with the Buzz.
- He did not play professionally in 1995, but in 1996 he played for the Tyler Wildcatters of the Texas–Louisiana League.
- He went 4-9 with a 4.37 ERA in 13 games with them. He was inducted into the Wichita State University Hall of Fame in 1995.
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