Scott David Schoeneweis [SHOW-en-weiss] (born October 2, 1973, in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American left-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In the five seasons from 2003-07, Schoeneweis allowed only one home run to a left-handed batter. Left-handed hitters batted .209, with a .264 slugging percentage and .293 on base percentage, in 227 plate appearances against him from 2005-06, and then only .207 with...
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Scott David Schoeneweis [SHOW-en-weiss] (born October 2, 1973, in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American left-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In the five seasons from 2003-07, Schoeneweis allowed only one home run to a left-handed batter. Left-handed hitters batted .209, with a .264 slugging percentage and .293 on base percentage, in 227 plate appearances against him from 2005-06, and then only .207 with a .241 slugging percentage in 2007. In 2008, he was even stingier—lefties batted only .178 against him. That was second-best among all major league left-handers.
Schoenweiss grew up in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey. He attended Lenape High School in Medford, New Jersey, where he lettered in baseball and basketball before playing collegiately at Duke University, where he was a 1993 All-American as a freshman. That season, he had 12 wins, the second best record in the school's history.
At age 19, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer...
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