Announcement
KEITH FORBES (RHP) Newton, MA (Troy State / San Diego Padres)
Posted by Chiefs Baseball on
May 18 2009
at
05:00PM PDT
in 2010 Season
Was the Chiefs ace in 2007 and 2008 and will make comeback attempt this season after missing all of the 2009 campaign.... Had a 9-2 record with an ERA of 1.66 in 2007 & 2008 with 180 K's in just 114 innings while leading the ICL....Set Chiefs single season strikeout record in 2008 recording 101 K's....Pitched the Chiefs first no-hitter since 1995 against Wakefield on June 13, 2007 ...Named to the ICL all-star team in both 2007 & 2008... Signed with the Sussex Skyhawks of the Can-Am League at the conclusion of the 2007 campaign where he made two starts...Pitched for five seasons in the San Diego Padres system and led all of minor league baseball in 2000 with 74 appearances for the Single A Rancho Cucamonga Padres.... Also pitched for the Double AA Mobile Bay Bears.. The Troy State University product was a 1998 draftee of the Padres after going 9-2 with a 3.28 ERA.... Began his pro career with Idaho Falls of the Pioneer League in 1998.... Originally from Malden MA, now resides in Newton, MA, with his wife Misssy and two children.....Keith is considered one of the leading baseball instructors in the New England area....Son of the late Rodney Forbes, an outstanding local athlete in the mid 1960's who was inducted into the UMass-Boston Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006...
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