Bryan Paul Bullington (born September 30, 1980 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a right-handed pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball. He was the first overall pick of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft.
In 1999, during his senior year at Madison Consolidated High School, he was 15-0, and pitched a 1 hit game to win the 1999 Indiana High School Athletic Association Baseball State Finals.
Bullington attended Ball State U...
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Bryan Paul Bullington (born September 30, 1980 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a right-handed pitcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball. He was the first overall pick of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft.
In 1999, during his senior year at Madison Consolidated High School, he was 15-0, and pitched a 1 hit game to win the 1999 Indiana High School Athletic Association Baseball State Finals.
Bullington attended Ball State University. In 2002 for the Ball State Cardinals, he was 11-3 with a 2.86 ERA, and in 104 innings walked 18 while striking out 139. His 139 strikeouts was a new record for most strikeouts in a single season (standard college season).
Bullington was the first overall pick in the 2002 draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was the first player from the Mid-American Conference to be selected with the first pick in a major sport's draft. He was selected because the Pirates felt they had a better chance of signing him over other players in the draft...
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