Tom Timmermann

American baseball player

PersonDied aged 85humanQ7817841

Also known as Thomas Henry Timmermann

Born: May 12, 1940
Died: November 14, 2025
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1.“Former Tigers Closer, Father of Angels Pitcher, Dies”newsweek.com/sports/mlb/former-tigers-closer-father-of-angels-pitcher-dies-11043302Retrieved 2025-11-17
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Birthplace: Breese
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: baseball player
Education: Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Thomas Henry Timmermann was an American baseball player. He played professional baseball for 15 years from 1960 to 1974, including six seasons in Major League Baseball as a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers (1969–1973) and Cleveland Indians (1973–1974). He compiled a 35–35 win–loss record and a 3.78 earned run average (ERA), and recorded 35 saves and 315 strikeouts, in 228 major league games and 548 innings pitched.

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MLB batting stats — season by season

7 seasons · from AIDB's MLB batting dataset

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
1969	Detroit Tigers	31	9	0	1	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222
1970	Detroit Tigers	61	16	0	0	0	0	9	.000	.000	.000	.000
1971	Detroit Tigers	52	19	2	1	0	1	11	.053	.100	.053	.153
1972	Detroit Tigers	35	44	3	6	1	3	25	.136	.208	.136	.345
1973	Detroit Tigers	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
1973	Cleveland Indians	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
1974	Cleveland Indians	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
Career		229	88	5	8	1	4	49	.091	.140	.091	.231

MLB pitching stats — season by season

7 seasons · from AIDB's MLB pitching dataset

Year	Team	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP
1969	Detroit Tigers	4	3	31	1	1	0	1	55.2	50	17	1	26	42	2.75	1.365
1970	Detroit Tigers	6	7	61	0	0	0	27	85.1	90	39	3	34	49	4.11	1.453
1971	Detroit Tigers	7	6	52	2	0	0	4	84.0	82	36	6	37	51	3.86	1.417
1972	Detroit Tigers	8	10	34	25	3	2	0	149.2	121	48	12	41	88	2.89	1.082
1973	Detroit Tigers	1	1	17	1	0	0	1	39.0	39	16	4	11	21	3.69	1.282
1973	Cleveland Indians	8	7	29	15	4	0	2	124.1	117	68	15	54	62	4.92	1.375
1974	Cleveland Indians	1	1	4	0	0	0	0	10.0	9	6	1	5	2	5.40	1.400
Career		35	35	228	44	8	2	35	548.0	508	230	42	208	315	3.78	1.307

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Sex or gender: male
Member of sports team: Toledo Mud Hens
Cleveland Guardians
Detroit Tigers
Given name: Tom
Position played on team / speciality: pitcher
Sport: baseball
Family name: Timmermann

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