Name Matthew Williams Role Baseball | Height 1.85 m Weight 82 kg | |
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Matthew Jarrad Williams (February 28, 1987) is an Australian professional baseball pitcher for the Adelaide Bite of the Australian Baseball League (ABL). Williams has played in the Minnesota Twins organization, who signed him as a non-drafted free agent in 2004.
Williams began the 2008 season with the Beloit Snappers of the Midwest League. Going 2-0 with seven saves and a 2.09 earned run average and 42 strike outs over 38.2 innings pitched earned him a Midwest League All-Star selection, and a promotion to the Twins' advanced-A affiliate in Fort Myers. With the Miracle, he went 2-2 with a 3.35 ERA and 37 strikeouts in twenty appearances. He also started two games for the first time in his minor league career with the Miracle. In his starts, he was 1-0 with a 1.00 ERA—giving up one earned run over nine total innings.
Williams is one of two current Miracle on the ever-increasing list of Australian born baseball players, as he was born in Camden, Australia (the other being infielder/outfielder Daniel Berg). He played for the Australian national baseball team in the 2009 Baseball World Cup.