After a fight with colon cancer, former Toronto Blue Jays bullpen pitcher Doug Creek passed away on Sunday, according to the Journal News in West Virginia.
His age was fifty-five.
Creek pitched for seven clubs throughout his MLB career, which stretched between 1995-2005.
The Cardinals, Giants, Cubs, Rays, Mariners, Blue Jays, and Tigers were among the teams the lefty pitched for.
He played in 21 games with a 0-0 record during his tenure with the Jays in 2003. He had a respectable ERA of 3.29 and a strikeout-walk ratio of 11-3 in his 13.2 inning pitched.
For his career, he had a 7-14 record with 532 ERA in 279 games.
Vic Holmes, the high school coach at Creek, described the killing as “shocking” to the Journal News.
He was a productive amateur baseball player, winning the West Virginia Sports Writers Association’s 1987 state baseball player of the year award. He was inducted into the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in 2000 after being the school’s all-time winningest left-hander with over 40 victories throughout his collegiate career.
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