Wade Townsend

41-Year-Old PitcherP
 Free Agent  
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$Released by the Rays in August 2009.
PFree Agent  
Shoulder
August 3, 2009
The Rays released Townsend (shoulder) on Monday, the team's official site reports.
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Townsend has been plagued by injury after injury since being selected eighth overall by the Rays in 2005. It looks as though his professional career may be over before it ever really got started.
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Townsend, the Rays' top choice in the 2005 draft, missed the entire 2006 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. While those 2007 numbers are not good for a first-round choice, the Rays are just happy Townsend was healthy for most of the season, and his shutdown in August (sore elbow) was very much a precautionary move. Townsend should be healthy going into spring training; the Rays likely will start him off at High-A Vero Beach and will be prepared to start advancing him aggressively.
Townsend, the Rays' top choice in the 2005 draft, missed the entire 2006 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. However, he was throwing again at the instructional league in October. The Rays will assign him to a Single-A squad this year and finally see what they have in Townsend. He won’t arrive in the majors until 2009 at least.
Townsend, the Devil Rays' top choice in the 2005 draft, will miss the entire 2006 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in October. See you next year, folks.
A strong build and a hard fastball with excellent command are his strengths in combination with a deadly curve that lacks consistency at times. A change up and splitter will need to be refined, but the Rice U. product could be a rotation horse if that’s accomplished.
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PTampa Bay Rays  
Shoulder
November 17, 2008
Townsend is expected to miss most, if not all, of the 2009 season after undergoing surgery on his right shoulder last week.
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PTampa Bay Rays  
July 29, 2008
Townsend has not had an impressive season so far at either High-A or Double-A for the Rays, posting a combined 6.54 ERA in 42.2 innings over both levels.
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PTampa Bay Rays  
February 12, 2008
Townsend (elbow) won a World Series of Poker event in Tunica, Mississippi in January, earning over $77,000, the Tampa Tribune reports.
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PTampa Bay Rays  
October 5, 2007
Townsend finished the year 6-10, 5.08 in 21 starts at Low-A Columbus for the Rays (1.40 WHIP, 92:53 K:BB ratio and 16 home runs in 102.2 innings). He was shut down for the season in early August due to elbow soreness.
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PTampa Bay Rays  
August 14, 2007
Townsend was placed on the disabled list with a lingering right elbow problem according to the team's official page.
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