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Full Name: Neal James Cotts Primary Position: P
Height/Weight: 6' 2"/200 First Game: August 12, 2003
Birthdate: March 25, 1980 MLB Experience: 4 years
Birthplace: Belleville, Illinois
Bat/Throw: Left/Left

Biography[]

Born on March 25, 1980 in Belleville, Illinois, Neal Cotts (Neal James Cotts) played for the Chicago White Sox for his entire 4 year career. Cotts broke into the bigs on August 12, 2003 with the Chicago White Sox, and put up a 5.65 ERA in 65.1 innings pitched in 2004, his rookie year.

Most people believe that Neal Cotts's best season was 2005, when he posted a 1.94 ERA and struck out 58 batters.

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Statistics[]

Pitching Stats[]

Year Team G GS W L ERA K R ER CG SHO SV IP H HR BB IB WP HBP
2003 CHI A 4 4 1 1 8.10 10 12 12 0 0 0 13.1 15 1 17 0 0 0
2004 CHI A 56 1 4 4 5.65 58 45 41 0 0 0 65.1 61 13 30 2 8 3
2005 CHI A 69 0 4 0 1.94 58 15 13 0 0 0 60.1 38 1 29 5 3 4
2006 CHI A 70 0 1 2 5.17 43 33 31 0 0 1 54 64 12 24 6 3 3
Total 199 5 10 7 4.52 169 105 97 0 0 1 193 178 27 100 13 14 10

Fielding Stats[]

Year Team POS G GS INN PO A ERR DP TP PB SB CS PkO AVG
2003 CHI A P 4 4 13.1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
2004 CHI A P 56 1 65.1 1 8 1 1 0 2 5 1 0 .900
2005 CHI A P 69 0 60.1 2 14 0 2 0 3 2 1 1 1.000
2006 CHI A P 70 0 54 4 9 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 1.000
Total P 199 5 193 8 32 1 5 0 7 9 2 1 .976

Batting Stats[]

Year Team G AB R H HR RBI AVG OBP SLG 2B 3B BB SO HBP SH SB IBB GDP
2003 CHI A 4 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2004 CHI A 56 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 CHI A 69 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2006 CHI A 70 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 199 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Transactions[]

  • Selected by Oakland Athletics in the 2nd round of the free-agent draft (June 5, 2001 - signed June 13, 2001).
  • Traded by Oakland Athletics with Daylon Holt to Chicago White Sox (December 16, 2002) completing trade in which Chicago White Sox traded Keith Foulke, Mark Johnson, Joe Valentine and cash to Oakland Athletics in exchange for Billy Koch and 2 players to be named later (December 3, 2002).
  • Traded by Chicago White Sox to Chicago Cubs in exchange for David Aardsma and Carlos Vasquez (November 16, 2006).

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