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Dallas Buck
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Dallas Buck (born November 11, 1984, in Newberg, Oregon) is a former Minor League Baseball player and former All-American baseball pitcher who played for the Oregon State Beavers of Oregon State University in college. He threw a fastball, changeup, curveball, and his strike-out pitch, the slider.
Buck pitched four years for Newberg High School, which won the Oregon state championship his senior year. At Oregon State University, the , 210 pound, athlete majored in sociology. He played football in the Fall as a defensive-back and pitched for the baseball team in the Spring. After two years playing both sports, he decided to specialize in baseball.
Buck pitched for the Beavers from 2004 to 2006, including pitching games in the 2006 College World Series. In 2005, Dallas Buck and Oregon State teammate, outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, were All-American candidates. In 2004 and 2005, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League, and won West Division MVP at the league's 2004 all-star game. He had a key part in the 2006 championship series between Oregon State and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Buck won game three of the series after pitching just two days before in game one, sealing Oregon State's first baseball national championship.
He finished his career at Oregon State as the school's leader in hit batters.
Buck was a third round pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2006 First-Year Player Draft. In June 2007, he had Tommy John surgery on his elbow.
On August 11, 2008, Buck was traded from Arizona's minor league Single-A Visalia Oaks (along with Micah Owings and Wilkin Castillo) to the Cincinnati Reds for Adam Dunn and cash. In 2009 Buck battled arm injuries while holding a 2–3 record with a 4.91 ERA in ten starts. He ended the 2009 season playing for the Double-A Carolina Mudcats. Buck played on the Mudcats through 2011
After posting a 1–5 record in eight starts for the Mudcats in 2011, he was released. Buck has not played in the minor leagues since 2011.
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