Steve Reed (baseball player)
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Steven Vincent Reed is a former relief pitcher
Relief pitcher
A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, fatigue, ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as being substituted by a pinch hitter...

 in Major League Baseball
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. He went to Lewis-Clark State College
Lewis-Clark State College
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. A submarine-style
Submarine (baseball)
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 pitcher
Pitcher
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, Reed has played for numerous baseball teams, including the Colorado Rockies
Colorado Rockies
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, Cleveland Indians
Cleveland Indians
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, Atlanta Braves
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, to whom he was traded with along with fellow relief pitcher Steve Karsay
Steve Karsay
Stefan Andrew Karsay is a former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics , Cleveland Indians , Atlanta Braves , New York Yankees , and Texas Rangers .Karsay grew up in the College Point neighborhood in Queens, New York City, just a few miles from Shea...

 from Cleveland for former Major League Pitcher John Rocker
John Rocker
John Loy Rocker is a retired American Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for the Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians, the Texas Rangers, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as well as the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball...

 in 2001, the New York Mets
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, San Diego Padres
San Diego Padres
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, and the San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Giants
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. His career stats as of were:
49 W, 44 L, 3.63 ERA, 18 S, 630 K's, 285 BB, in 833 games (870 innings).

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