American baseball player (born 1950)
Baseball player
James Michael Slaton
(born June 19, 1950) is an American former pitcher with a 16-year career from 1971-1986. He played in the
American League
with the
Milwaukee Brewers
from 1971?1977 and 1979?1983, the
Detroit Tigers
in 1978 and 1986, and the
California Angels
from 1984-1986.
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Slaton played high school baseball at
Antelope Valley High School
and then played college baseball at
Antelope Valley College
.
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He is the Brewers all-time leader in wins (117), innings pitched (2025.1), games started (268), and shutouts (19), and he is third in strikeouts, trailing
Teddy Higuera
and
Ben Sheets
, and second in complete games, trailing
Mike Caldwell
.
Slaton was traded with
Rich Folkers
from the Brewers to the Tigers for
Ben Oglivie
at the
Winter Meetings
on December 9, 1977.
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Slaton with the
Milwaukee Brewers
He represented the Brewers and the American League in the
1977 All-Star game
and was the winning pitcher for the Brewers in the 4th game of the 1982 World Series against St. Louis.
After his playing career ended, he started coaching in the minor leagues. He coached in the
Oakland Athletics
organization (1992?1994) and then became the pitching coach for the Class A
Daytona Cubs
(1995?1996),
Lancaster JetHawks
(1997?98) and the
Tacoma Rainiers
(1999?2003). In 2004, he was a special assignment coach for the
Seattle Mariners
and from 2005-2007 he was the Mariners bullpen coach. Before coaching in the minor or major leagues, Jim coached an all-star team for the Monte Vista Little League, while pitching for the Angels.
He was the pitching coach for the
Las Vegas 51s
in 2008, also serving briefly as the bullpen coach for the
Los Angeles Dodgers
when
Ken Howell
temporarily left the team for medical reasons. After the season, the Dodgers announced that Slaton would be the pitching coach in 2009 for their new Triple-A affiliate, the
Albuquerque Isotopes
, a position he held through 2010. In 2011, he was named the pitching coach at
Camelback Ranch
.
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