Drew Storen

Drew Storen
Washington Nationals — No. 22
Relief pitcher
Born: August 11, 1987 (1987-08-11) (age 24) Brownsburg, Indiana
Bats: Switch	Throws: Right
MLB debut
May 17, 2010 for the Washington Nationals
Career statistics (through 2011 season)
Won-Loss record	10-7
Earned run average	3.10
Strikeouts	126
Saves	48
Teams
Washington Nationals (2010-present)

Drew Patrick Storen (born August 11, 1987 in Brownsburg, Indiana) is an American baseball relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals. The Nationals selected the 6'1" 170 lb. right-hander No. 10 overall in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. He was also drafted by the New York Yankees in the 34th round of the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft but did not sign, opting instead to attend Stanford University.

Amateur career

High school

Storen had 30 wins, 319 strikeouts and a 1.55 earned run average over his high school career including a 9-0 record as a sophomore in 2005 en route to a Brownsburg State Championship, and a team record of 35-0 and the longest win streak in Indiana history of 40 in a row. His list of accomplishments at Brownsburg High School include first-team all-state in 2006 & 2007, as well as all-state honorable mention in 2005 by the Associated Press, the 2007 Hendricks County Flyer Athlete of the Year, three-time first-team All-Hoosier Crossroads Conference selection (2005–2007), first-team All-Metro West three times by the Indianapolis Star (2005–2007), their Super team in 2006 and 2007 and was their Metro-West High School Player of the Year in 2007. He participated in the 2007 Indiana North-South All-Star Game, and was a state nominee for the 2006 Wendy's High School Heisman Award. He was ranked 49th among the 2007 Top 100 High School prospects by Baseball America.^[1]

College

Over two seasons at Stanford University, Storen was 12-4 with a 3.64 earned run average and fifteen saves. In 99 innings, Storen allowed 43 runs (40 earned) on 87 hits with 23 walks and 116 strikeouts. In both seasons he made the First All-Pac 10 team. While attending Stanford, Storen was a brother of Delta Tau Delta fraternity^[2]

Minor leagues

The Nationals selected Storen with the tenth pick, which they received as compensation for failure to sign 2008 first-round pick Aaron Crow. Storen, expressing a desire to make it to the majors as quickly as possible, signed with the Nationals the next day.^[3] Upon signing, Storen was assigned to the Class A Hagerstown Suns of the South Atlantic League.^[4] Storen made an early and strong impact during his time with the Suns, and on July 19 he was called up to the Class A Advanced Potomac Nationals of the Carolina League.^[5] Storen made his first pitching appearance with Potomac on July 21, earning a six out save, striking out three batters and allowing only one hit.^[6] Overall, Storen posted a 1.80 ERA in seven games with Potomac to earn a promotion to the AA Harrisburg Senators of the Eastern League. In 12.1 innings with Harrisburg, Storen did not allow an earned run.

Storen started the 2010 season at AA and by the end of April was promoted to the Class AAA Syracuse Chiefs^[7] after seven appearances in which he pitched 9.1 innings, allowing only one run, striking out 11 and walking one, earning four saves.^[8] He lasted at Syracuse just three weeks, in which he made six appearances allowing just one earned run^[9] before getting promoted to the Nationals on May 16.^[3]

Washington Nationals

On May 17, his first day on the Nationals active roster, Storen made his major league debut and pitched a scoreless two thirds of an inning of relief, which ended with his first career strikeout in Matt Holliday. On May 23, Storen got his first major league hit in his first career at-bat. He also got his first career save on August 6.

In 2011 Drew finished the year with a 6-3 record and sported a 2.75 ERA. He finished tied for 6th in the MLB (t4 in the NL) in saves with Padres closer Heath Bell at 43.

Personal

His dad is Mark Patrick, former morning show host on FOX Sports Radio and the MLB Network on XM Radio.

References

1. ^ "Brownsburg Baseball". http://www.brownsburg.k12.in.us/bhs/athletics/baseball/careerrecords.html. Retrieved 2009-06-11. 
2. ^ "Player Bio: Drew Storen". Stanford Official Athletic Site. http://www.gostanford.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/storen_drew00.html. Retrieved 2009-07-06. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Adam Kilgore (May 16, 2010). "Nationals Journal: Nationals promote Drew Storen". Washington Post. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/2010/05/nationals_to_promote_drew_stor.html. 
4. ^ Bill Ladson (2009-06-10). "Nationals sign reliever Storen". MLB.com. http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090610&content_id=5247952&vkey=news_was&fext=.jsp&c_id=was. 
5. ^ Anthony Masterson & Dan McGinn (2009-07-19). "First Round Pick Storen Headed to Potomac". http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090719&content_id=5951458&vkey=news_t436&fext=.jsp&sid=t436. 
6. ^ Anthony Masterson (2009-07-21). "Storen Dominant as Nats Top Cats in Opener". http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090721&content_id=5984976&vkey=news_t436&fext=.jsp&sid=t436. 
7. ^ Dave Sheinin (April 29, 2010). "Nationals Journal: Drew Storen Promoted to Class AAA Syracuse". Washington Post. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/2010/04/storen_promoted_to_class_aaa_s.html. 
8. ^ "Harrisburg Senators Stats". http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ibp&cid=547&stn=true&sid=t547. Retrieved 2010-05-17. 
9. ^ "Syracuse Chiefs Stats". http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ibp&cid=552&stn=true&sid=t552. Retrieved 2010-05-17. 

External links

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube

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Name	Storen, Drew
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Date of birth	August 11, 1987
Place of birth	Brownsburg, Indiana
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