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  Billy Koch information - Search.com
Billy Koch (born December 14, 1974 in Rockville Centre, New York) is a reliever for Major League Baseball.
Billy was groomed for the role of closer and had mixed success at the role over the next three seasons.
Billy fared better in Florida than he did with Chicago, having a 1-2 record and a 3.51 ERA in 23 games while serving as a setup man for Armando Benitez.
domainhelp.search.com /reference/Billy_Koch   (667 words)

  
  Billy Koch
Billy Koch (born December 14, 1974 in Rockville Centre, New York) is a feared reliever in Major League Baseball.
Billy Koch was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1st round (4th pick) of the 1996 amateur draft and made his debut in 1999.
Billy was groomed for the role of closer and had mixed success at the role over the next three seasons.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/b/bi/billy_koch.html   (347 words)

  
 Torontoist: Billy Koch is Hopping Mad
Billy Koch is rather upset with the Toronto Blue Jays organization these days.
Dear Billy, perhaps it was the $950,000 commitment coupled with your 15.00 spring ERA that signaled to management it was time to part ways.
Koch's abilities or his contract (you could argue Lightenberg was a far worse investment at 2 mil this year) citing a 15.00 ERA based on 3 innings of work is reaching and misleading.
www.torontoist.com /archives/2005/03/billy_koch_is_h.php   (926 words)

  
 Fantasy Baseball Profile - Billy Koch
Koch was warming up in the bullpen during the ninth inning yesterday, it appears that manager Guillen chose to let Damaso Marte close the game and not because Koch had pitched the night before.
Koch was assigned to Triple-A Charlotte on Monday to begin a minor league rehab assignment.
Koch appears to be bumped from his closing role with the White Sox for now after giving up runs in each of his last three outings.
www.thomasgeorge.com /baseball/profile.cfm?playerId=2678&allNews=1   (1022 words)

  
 KFFL - Billy Koch, RP, Free Agents
The Tampa Tribune's Scott Carter reports free-agent CL Billy Koch, recently cut loose by the Toronto Blue Jays, was spotted at the Tuesday, April 5 game between the Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Devil Rays and told reporters he is in no hurry to return to baseball.
Marlins.MLB.com's Joe Frisaro reports Florida Marlins RP Billy Koch was granted a leave of absence to be with his family for undisclosed reasons and probably won't return this season.
Koch was the White Sox's closer until recently losing his job to P Shingo Takatsu.
www.kffl.com /player/5044/mlb?PHPSESSID=a   (2254 words)

  
 Can Billy Koch get it done this year: - Soxtalk.com
Koch did what the Sox are hoping he does on a consistent basis this season—face three hitters and get them all out.
Billy Botch is a really appropriate name for him and he's gonna be relegated to holding Marte's dirty jock strap after the 1st of May.
I hope Koch can rebound, we will really have one of the stronger bullpens in the league if we can have 3 pitchers that are worthy enough to close the game, and we end up using 2 as set-up guys.
www.soxtalk.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=15892   (893 words)

  
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 Billy Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William ("Billy") Koch (born December 14, 1974 in Rockville Centre, New York) was a reliever in the MLB.
Billy was a star pitcher for West Babylon High School on Long Island, NY Billy's younger brother, Eric Koch, actually pitched West Babylon to its first state championship, after Billy had already graduated
Billy is famous for attending Boy's Brigade at the First Presbyterian Church of Babylon where he would play dodgeball and knock out the girls with his missile-like throws
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Koch   (781 words)

  
 Billy Koch
With Koch as the closer we may have 2 more victories (from the blown saves).....but we would have someone liek Clark, Berg or Pond starting at 3B (which means we probably would lose a lot of offense and have a few less wins).
Koch can get you 30+ saves, but at the same time he was shaky at times.
Koch was so close to being out of baseball last season, has been clocked at 100 MPH, but no velocity, that did us no good, than the balls thrown because he couldn't control his off speed stuff so he was forced to go to the straight fastball where they were waiting, NAH!
www.bluejayway.ca /forum/index.php?topic=3025.msg28719   (1618 words)

  
 Tomahawk Talk -> Anybody remember Billy Koch?
Koch saved 44 games and was the top reliever in the major leagues.
Within two years -- at age 29 -- Billy Koch was out of baseball, partly because of the uncontrollable muscle twitching that went on for months at a time and often kept up him up all night.
Koch used to be a decent closer as well.
forums.tomahawk-talk.com /index.php?showtopic=926   (657 words)

  
 CNNSI.com -- Baseball -- Billy Koch News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Koch was 11-4 with a 3.27 ERA and 44 saves in 84 appearances last season.
Koch, who had allowed just two earned runs in his first 15 appearances this season, gave up seven runs on six hits in two games over the weekend.
Koch will still be the primary closer, but will share the duties.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/players/15050/latest_news.html   (252 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - A's trade Koch to ChiSox for Foulke in 6-man deal
CHICAGO -- Billy Koch's reward for being the AL's top closer is a moving van.
Koch had a $2.35 million base salary this season and made $150,000 in performance bonuses.
Koch, who turns 28 on Opening Day, has emerged as one of the AL's top closers, becoming the first ever to start his career with four consecutive 30-save seasons.
espn.go.com /mlb/news/2002/1203/1470567.html   (1099 words)

  
 Chicago White Sox, Billy Koch, Major League Baseball - CBS SportsLine.com
Koch, acquired in December from the Oakland Athletics in a six-player trade, gets $4.25 million this year and $6,375,000 in 2004.
Koch, 27, and two minors leaguers joined the White Sox in exchange for closer Keith Foulke, catcher Mark Johnson and minor league right-hander Joe Valentine.
Koch was 11-4 with 44 saves and a 3.27 ERA with 93 strikeouts in 93 2/3 innings for Oakland last season.
cbs.sportsline.com /mlb/story/6157793   (395 words)

  
 Billy Koch Released - ProSportsDaily Forums
Billy Koch was released by the marlins today.
billy koch is the perfect fit for the kind of player the mets say they will be looking for.
Billy Koch would be a decent pickup if we didn't have Peterson, but his presence makes this pick-up look a lot better, now we just have to hope the Mets see this and go get him.
www.prosportsdaily.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7175   (1293 words)

  
 Billy Koch traded to the Marlins - ProSportsDaily Forums
Marlins acquired RHP Billy Koch and cash from the White Sox for infielder Wilson Valdez.
The Marlins will see whether Koch can turn things around while being used as a setup man. Maybe he'll be an average reliever, which would be fine since the White Sox are picking up most or all of the tab.
Koch after hearing of the trade and acknowledging his era is reset when switching leagues.
www.prosportsdaily.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3488   (338 words)

  
 ESPN.com - MLB - Billy Koch - Toronto Blue Jays - Player Card
Billy Koch has not been involved in any transactions this season.
Pitcher Billy Koch, two years removed from a 44-save season, was released by the Florida Marlins on Tuesday.
Reliever Billy Koch knows all about the player he is replacing with the Marlins.
baseball.espn.go.com /mlb/players/profile?statsId=6218   (76 words)

  
 Billy Koch
Koch saved 44 games and was the top reliever in the major leagues.
Within two years -- at age 29 -- Billy Koch was out of baseball, partly because of the uncontrollable muscle twitching that went on for months at a time and often kept up him up all night.
The Kochs may be the most recognizable of more than 3,000 families nationwide reporting these same unexplained symptoms.
www.morgellons-disease-research.com /Morgellons-Message-Board/index.php?topic=35.0   (645 words)

  
 Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch, (1810\andndash\;1876), mayor of Leipzig
Charles G. Koch - Billionaire, heir and CEO of Koch Industries and co-founder of the free-market Cato Institute.
Robert Koch - German physician, discoverer of the tubercle and cholera bacilli, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1905
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koch   (339 words)

  
 Billy Koch Steps IN as ChiSox New Mouth - NetShrine Discussion Forum
I think Koch was referring to how lucky the Twins were is returning his 100 mph heater faster than it came in.
Koch was obviously commenting on what happened in the playoffs.
Koch is one of those guys that is an interesting read because he says what's on his mind and it's refreshingly honest -- although not always the best thing to say or necessarily true but he thinks so...I'm glad he's not on a team I root for or I'd be cringing at every other quote...
www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/showthread.php?t=7774   (999 words)

  
 Jays sign old friend Billy Koch - Baseball Fever
ESPN said the Jays signed Billy Koch, good move i think i really liked him when he was first with the jays, maybe he can rebound his career in a familiar setting.
With Doc, Lilly and Batista headlining the pitching staff, and Schonweiss and Koch in the pen as our 1-2 punch there, our pitching staff may not be in SUCH bad shape.
Billy Koch did good in Oakland with the A's.
www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=22979   (425 words)

  
 Koch sent packing by Blue Jays
Billy Koch became the latest victim of the Toronto Blue Jays' bullpen shuffle when the major-league club released him on Thursday.
Koch finished last season with the Florida Marlins as a set-up man for closer Armando Benitez, who inked a three-year free-agent deal with San Francisco in November.
Oakland dealt Koch to the Chicago White Sox during the 2003 campaign.
www.cbc.ca /sports/story/2005/03/17/koch050317.html   (1352 words)

  
 Billy Koch = No Sense of Reality - White Sox Interactive Forums
Billy Koch is determined to win back his job as the White Sox's closer.
The last pitch he threw was a chest high fastball to Woodward that was pulled into the corner for double.
I dont think a hitter of Woodward's caliber is pulling anything chest high from Billy Koch last year.
www.whitesoxinteractive.com /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=22408   (1166 words)

  
 The Bull Pen - Billy Koch a Marlin?
Koch, who is in his sixth season, is 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA and has eight saves in 11 chances this season.
The 29-year-old Koch spent his first three years with Toronto before playing for the Oakland Athletics in 2002.
Koch's best season came in 2002 when he went 11-4 and racked up a career-high 44 saves in 50 chances, but he has only 19 saves since then.
www.rotojunkie.com /forums/showthread.php?t=44674   (1288 words)

  
 Billy Koch traded to Oakland - White Sox Interactive Forums
The Threw Way Trade was going to have LA getting Koch and the A's getting Sheffield.
The A's needed a closer and now with Koch in the fold they have one.
According to the papers here, and everything I've heard, the trade would be along the lines of Koch and Dye for Sheffield (and someone else, I'm sure).
www.whitesoxinteractive.com /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=5877   (808 words)

  
 Billy Koch baseball Bio and Statistics
Billy Koch played 6 seasons in the major leagues for the Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics and Chicago White Sox.
His lifetime earned run average was 3.89 and he had 357 strikeouts and 191 bases on balls in his career.
He is currently available to appear at fundraisers, dinners, golf outings, trade shows, store promotions or to act as a corporate spokesperson, give a motivational talk or to sign premium and gift items for a corporation.
www.lernersportsmarketing.com /major-areas/bios/koch-billy.htm   (152 words)

  
 The Bull Pen - Billy Koch Syndrome
I owned Koch in 2000 and he rang up 9 wins out of the pen, a good number of them blown saves.
Of course, if you own an Oakland starter right now, watching Koch and the other members of the A's pen so far can only be worrying you.
We had Hudson who pitched well in his first start and was set up for the W, only to have Koch blow the save and then vulture the W. Of course our opponent had Koch, so instead of being up 2-0 in the W category, we were tied 1-1!
www.rotojunkie.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6407   (889 words)

  
 Is Billy Koch in the game? - 2K Sports Forums
Billy Koch retired a couple of years ago.
I think that Ed Koontz is in free agency and just edit him to Billy Koch
I remember Billy being a monster....before he forgot about throwing strikes.
www.2ksports.com /forums/showthread.php?t=89978   (169 words)

  
 Athletics Nation :: Billy Koch returns.....to Canada
Could be a steal for the Jays, although they need a lot more than Billy Koch right now.
Billy Koch was passed around like a joint from Indonesia.
Yes, Koch has gotten suckier and suckier with every passing year, but his best years were with the Jays; if he finds any semblance of the magic he had there before, he'll be a steal at 900,000 grand.
www.athleticsnation.com /story/2005/1/10/205238/272   (727 words)

  
 Billy Koch - BR Bullpen
Billy Koch won a bronze medal for the United States at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Koch, his wife and their children have been suffering from a rare and mysterious condition called Morgellons disease which can cause a crawling feeling and an expulsion of filaments from under the skin.
This disease is what many people feel led to his demise in the major leagues.
www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Billy_Koch   (99 words)

  
 Exclusive Interview with Billy Koch, Owner of Singletary
We recently had the opportunity to have a question and answer session with Billy Koch.
Billy gave us the heads-up on his feelings about the Breeders Cup Mile, and his outstanding Turf Superstar, Singletary.
We were very happy to interact with Billy, and we are all pulling for Singletary to win in the Breeders Cup two years in a row.
www.horse-races.net /library/bc05-kockinterview.htm   (1548 words)

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