:Tom Drees

{{Short description|American baseball player (born 1963)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Tom Drees

|position=Pitcher

|image=Tom Drees - Birmingham Barons - 1988.jpg

|caption=Drees in 1988

|bats=Switch

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1963|6|17}}

|birth_place=Des Moines, Iowa

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 3

|debutyear=1991

|debutteam=Chicago White Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 5

|finalyear=1991

|finalteam=Chicago White Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0-0

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=12.27

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=2

|teams=

|highlights=

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Thomas Kent Drees (born June 17, 1963) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He appeared in four games for the Chicago White Sox in {{mlby|1991}}, all as a reliever.

Career

Drees attended Creighton University, and in 1984 he played collegiate summer baseball with the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod Baseball League.{{cite web|author= |url=http://capecodbaseball.org.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/2012website/archives/Current%20Year/All_Time_MLB_CCBL_Alumni.pdf |title=Major League Baseball Players From the Cape Cod League |publisher=capecodbaseball.org |date= |accessdate=January 9, 2020}} He was selected by the White Sox in the 17th round of the 1985 MLB Draft.

Drees made headlines in {{by|1989}} while pitching for the Vancouver Canadians. During that season, Drees pitched three no-hitters, including two consecutive ones on May 23 and May 28 (the latter of which was only seven innings). Overall, Drees won 12 games for Vancouver with a 3.37 ERA. He made his major league debut as a September call-up with the White Sox in 1991, and appeared in four major league games.

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