Todd Belitz

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1975)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Todd Belitz

|image=

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1975|10|23}}

|birth_place=Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.

|death_date=

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 4

|debutyear=2000

|debutteam=Oakland Athletics

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 6

|finalyear=2001

|finalteam=Colorado Rockies

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=1–1

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=6.39

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=8

|teams=

• Oakland Athletics ({{Baseball year|2000}})
• Colorado Rockies ({{Baseball year|2001}})

}}

Todd Belitz (born October 23, 1975) is an American former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who played for the Oakland Athletics and Colorado Rockies.

A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Belitz attended Edison High School (Huntington Beach, California) in Huntington Beach, California. He is an alumnus of Washington State University, where he played college baseball for the Cougars from 1995–1997.{{cite web|title=Washington State University Baseball Players Who Made It to the Major Leagues|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/college/washington_state_university_baseball_players.shtml|work=Baseball-Almanac.com|accessdate=16 December 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040812200714/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/college/washington_state_university_baseball_players.shtml|url-status=live|archivedate=12 August 2004}} In 1995, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps 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}}

Drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 4th round of the 1997 Major League Baseball Draft, Belitz would make his Major League Baseball debut with Oakland on September 4, {{mlby|2000}}. His final game came on October 6, {{mlby|2001}}.