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b. September 7, 1972 · New York Mets 1995–1997, 1999, 2011, Oakland Athletics 1999–2001, St. Louis Cardinals 2002–2008, Tampa Bay Rays 2009, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2012

He came up in 1995 and went 9-2 with a 2.81 earned run average in fourteen starts at twenty-two. The New York papers named him, Bill Pulsipher and Paul Wilson Generation K and expected a decade of it. All three were injured within two years and none of them ever started a full healthy season for the Mets.

Oakland moved him to the bullpen in 1999 and he stayed there for thirteen years, saving 300 games — 30th on the all-time list — with a 3.64 earned run average. He led the National League with 47 saves for St. Louis in 2004, the year the Cardinals won 105 games and lost the World Series in four.

The elbow was rebuilt twice and the career ended and restarted more than once. He got the last of the 300 saves back with the Mets in 2011, at thirty-eight, sixteen years after he first pitched for them. The 2018 ballot gave him nothing.

Honors

Award	Times	Years
All-Star selection	2	2000, 2005
Player of the Week	1	2007
Reliever of the Month	1	2006

Batting, season by season

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
1995	NYM	14	27	2	4	1	0	0	0	2	10	.148
1996	NYM	27	51	5	13	2	0	2	9	3	15	.255
1997	NYM	6	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	.143
1999	NYM/OAK	33	12	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	4	.083
2000	OAK	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2001	OAK	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2002	STL	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2003	STL	40	2	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	.500
2004	STL	74	3	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	.333
2005	STL	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2006	STL	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2007	STL	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2008	STL	42	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000
2009	TBR	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2011	NYM	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
2012	LAA	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—
Career	—	724	104	11	21	4	1	2	16	5	36	.202

Pitching, season by season

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
1995	NYM	9	2	14	14	0	93.0	88	29	31	55	2.81
1996	NYM	6	14	27	27	0	171.2	190	91	73	114	4.77
1997	NYM	2	2	6	6	0	29.2	40	25	22	25	7.58
1999	NYM/OAK	1	4	33	5	9	64.2	64	34	34	51	4.73
2000	OAK	6	4	66	0	33	69.0	67	29	32	57	3.78
2001	OAK	4	3	65	0	34	71.1	54	21	23	74	2.65
2002	STL	3	2	60	0	32	65.1	46	18	18	68	2.48
2003	STL	0	1	40	0	22	42.0	31	11	18	41	2.36
2004	STL	4	2	74	0	47	75.1	55	24	23	71	2.87
2005	STL	1	2	63	0	39	59.0	43	14	27	51	2.14
2006	STL	4	8	59	0	33	58.1	47	23	38	52	3.55
2007	STL	4	0	63	0	32	65.1	42	18	28	54	2.48
2008	STL	1	5	42	0	12	42.2	48	27	22	36	5.70
2009	TBR	0	1	9	0	0	8.0	6	2	5	6	2.25
2011	NYM	3	3	53	0	7	46.2	36	21	24	44	4.05
2012	LAA	3	2	50	0	0	45.2	44	21	19	31	4.14
Career	—	51	55	724	52	300	1007.2	901	408	437	830	3.64

On this day & linked events

1972

Born September 7, 1972

Brighton, IL, USA

1995

Major-league debut: Jason Isringhausen

Jason Isringhausen made a major-league debut on July 17, 1995.

2012

Final major-league game: Jason Isringhausen

Jason Isringhausen played a final major-league game on September 19, 2012.

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