Ian Kennedy
Arizona Diamondbacks – No. 31
Starting pitcher
Born: (1984-12-19) December 19, 1984 (age 27) Huntington Beach, California
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
MLB debut
September 1, 2007 for the New York Yankees
Career statistics (through May 17, 2012)
Win-Loss	34–21
Earned run average	3.67
Strikeouts	451
Teams
New York Yankees (2007–2009) Arizona Diamondbacks (2010–present)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion (2009) GIBBY's Breakout Player of the Year (2011)

Medal record
Men’s baseball
Competitor for  United States
World University Championship
Gold	2004 Tainan	Team

Ian Patrick Kennedy (born December 19, 1984, in Huntington Beach, California) is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

He is 6' 0" tall and weighs 190 pounds.^[1] He throws a fastball around 90 mph (tops out at 95 mph), knuckle-curve, cutter, and an above-average Vulcan changeup.^[2]

High school[link]

Kennedy attended La Quinta High School in Westminster, California.^[3] In his junior year, he was named CIF Division IV co-most valuable player, and earned the Orange County Register and Garden Grove League most valuable player honors, when he recorded 13 wins and led the county with a 0.38 ERA (five earned runs in 90 2/3 innings) and strikeouts (168) while batting .373 with seven home runs and 31 RBI.^[4] In his senior year, he earned All-CIF Division IV honors.

College[link]

Kennedy went on to play college baseball for University of Southern California. In Kennedy's first year at USC, he went 7–2 in 16 games, with a 2.91 ERA and one save. He pitched 92⅔ innings, struck out 120, and walked 31. He also gave up 86 hits and allowed 34 runs, 30 of which were earned runs.

In his sophomore year, he went 12–3 in 18 games, with a 2.54 ERA and one complete game. He pitched 117 innings, struck out 158 (fourth-best in team history), and walked 38. He also gave up 171 hits, and had 33 earned runs out of 40 runs allowed.

As a junior at USC he pitched in 16 games, 15 of them starts. He went 5–7 with 102 strikeouts and posted a 3.90 ERA. He pitched 101⅔ innings, walked 38, and gave up 44 earned runs. Entering his senior year, Kennedy was 24–12 in 50 games, pitching 311⅓ innings. He had a strikeout total of 380, an ERA of 3.12, and had walked a total of 107 batters.

In 2005 Kennedy made the USC single-season strikeout list, striking out 158 batters, fourth on the list, behind Mark Prior, Seth Etherton, and Walt Peterson. Kennedy has a 12.15 strikeouts per nine innings ratio, which is fifth best in his school's history. He was also selected for the U.S. National Team twice. Kennedy was named a first-team All-American after both his freshman and sophomore years, and was also named to the Preseason All-American first team in 2006 and the USA's Junior National Team in 2002. In 2005, he became the eighth pitcher in USC history to be named the Pac-10 Conference "Pitcher of the Year."

Professional career[link]

Minor leagues[link]

Kennedy was drafted by the New York Yankees in the first round (21st overall) of the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft, earning a $2.25 million signing bonus.^[5] "I would like to go out and play," he said, "start my professional career. The earlier the better. I imagine it's not going to be very long before I start. At least that's what I'm hoping. If it does take a while, I'm ready for that – but I want to go out and play."^{[citation needed]} He consistently throws his fastball around 91- 92 MPH, he is known for his pitching finesse to retire hitters.^[6] He has also developed a unique curveball grip now known as the "Western grip."

Kennedy was previously drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 14th round (425th overall) of the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft, but he didn't sign with them. He joins Randy Johnson, Mark Prior, Tom Seaver, and Barry Zito on the list of pitchers drafted out of USC.^[7]

Kennedy pitched 2.2 innings for the Staten Island Yankees of the New York-Penn League, a short-season class A league, in 2006. In 2007, he began the season with the A Tampa Yankees of the Florida State League, posting a 6–1 record with a 1.29 ERA in 63.0 innings, while striking out 72 and only walking 22. He was promoted to the AA Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League, where he posted a 5–1 record with a 2.59 ERA in 48.2 innings, while striking out 57 and only walking 17.

On July 24, 2007, Kennedy was promoted to the AAA Scranton/Wilkes Barre Yankees. He posted a 1–1 record there with a 2.08 ERA in six starts, striking out 34 and walking just 11 in 34.2 innings.

Major leagues[link]

New York Yankees[link]

Kennedy made his major league debut with the New York Yankees on September 1, 2007 in place of Mike Mussina, to whom he is often compared.^[8] He earned the win, allowing three runs (only one earned run) in seven innings, striking out six, walking two, and allowing five hits. Kennedy said before his first game:

"I didn’t want to be shellshocked. I wanted to act like I belong here. It’s a dream come true. You see the stadium on TV and you wish and hope you’ll be out there like those guys."^[9]

On November 28, 2007 Kennedy was named the 26th best prospect by Minor League Baseball's official website.^[10]

Despite having been replaced by Kennedy in the rotation in 2007, Mussina became a mentor for Kennedy and other young pitchers on the Yankee roster even requesting that Kennedy and Phil Hughes receive lockers next to his during 2008 spring training.^[11]

On May 4, 2008 Kennedy was demoted to AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after a poor start to the 2008 season. Ian dominated in his first start back with AAA Scranton/Wilkes Barre, tossing 7.1 innings of 1-hit ball while striking out eight.

On May 28, 2008, after enduring a strained right lat muscle, and being diagnosed with bursitis behind the scapular, Kennedy was placed on the DL, expected to miss at least 15 days. He returned to the AAA affiliate of the New York Yankees, struggling in his first few starts before going on a three game tear. From July 19 to July 29, Kennedy pitched 20 innings, allowing 7 hits which yielded 3 runs, while collecting 14 Ks, and walking only 4. On July 24, Kennedy had another no-hitter broken up, after pitching a dominant 6 2/3 innings.

Kennedy made his return to the major leagues on August 8, starting in place of an injured Joba Chamberlain. After a poor outing against the Angels, in which he surrendered 5 runs in 2 innings, Kennedy was optioned in favour of Billy Traber on August 10.^[12][13]

Kennedy was diagnosed with an aneurysm under his right armpit and underwent surgery May 12, 2009, at Roosevelt Hospital in New York under the care of Dr. George Todd, the same doctor who performed David Cone's procedure on an aneurysm in 1996.^[14]

On September 19, Ian Kennedy was called up from the minors. On September 23, Kennedy made his first appearance against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He hit one batter and walked two others, but allowed no hits while pitching a scoreless 8th inning.^[15]

Arizona Diamondbacks[link]

In December 2009, Ian Kennedy went to the Diamondbacks in a three-way trade with the Detroit Tigers and the Yankees, in which Detroit received Austin Jackson and Phil Coke from the Yankees and Max Scherzer and Daniel Schlereth from the Diamondbacks, the Yankees received Curtis Granderson from the Tigers, and the Diamondbacks also received Edwin Jackson from the Tigers.^[16]

In Kennedy's first appearance for Arizona, he pitched two scoreless innings in a rain-shortened game. He got his first win as a Diamondback on April 29, going 8 innings, while allowing 6 hits which led to 4 runs and striking out 6. On August 26, Kennedy struck out a career-high 12 batters, while allowing only 1 hit and 2 walks in 7 innings against the San Diego Padres.

Kennedy was named the Diamondbacks' 2011 Opening Day starting pitcher. ^[17] Kennedy would lead the Diamondbacks from last to first place with a break out season that had him win 21 games for the first time in his career and the first in the National League to do so that year.^[18] His season .840 win-loss percentage was the best ever for a Diamondbacks pitcher.^[19]

During the 2011 NLDS, Ian Kennedy started Game 1 but lost that game. The Diamondbacks eventually lost the division series to the Milwaukee Brewers in 5 games.

Through 2011, Kennedy was seventh all-time of Diamondback pitchers in career wins (30).^[19]

Personal life[link]

In October 2007, Kennedy married USC basketball player Allison Jaskowiak in a ceremony outside of St. Louis. None of his teammates on the Yankee playoff roster could attend the wedding as they were in the middle of the playoff series against the Cleveland Indians. Kennedy said of his wedding:

After the two were wed, the couple walked up the aisle to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame".^[20]

On April 24, 2011, Ian and Allison had their first child, Nora Rose.^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

External links[link]

	Biography portal
	Baseball portal

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
• mlb.com NY Yankees Press Release: "Yankees select right-handed pitcher Ian Kennedy in 1st round of 2006 First-Year Player Draft"
• yankees.com news New York Yankees News "USC's Kennedy is Yankees' Top Pick"
• Ian Kennedy Scouting Report On Moundtalk.com

Pablo E Sandoval
Pablo Sandoval tagging a player at 3rd base
San Francisco Giants – No. #48
3rd Baseman/1st Baseman
Born: (1986-08-11) August 11, 1986 (age 25) Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Bats: Switch	Throws: Right[1]
MLB debut
August 14, 2008 for the San Francisco Giants
Career statistics (through May 03, 2012)
Batting average	.308
Hits	554
Home runs	69
Runs batted in	262
On base percentage	.357
Slugging percentage	.502
Teams
San Francisco Giants (2008–present)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion (2010) All Star selection (2011) Hit for the cycle (September 15th, 2011) NL Player of the Week (2011)

Pablo E. Sandoval (born August 11, 1986), nicknamed Kung Fu Panda,^[2] is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. Sandoval is a 5'11", 237 pound switch hitter. He was born left handed, but did not want to have to play outfield all of his career. He therefore taught himself to throw right handed as well. He can still throw with both hands, but throws right handed during games.^[1]

Minor leagues[link]

Signed as an undrafted free agent in 2002, Sandoval began his professional career as a catcher in 2004 with the AZL Giants, hitting .266 with no home runs and 26 RBIs in 177 at bats.

In 2005, he was used almost entirely as a third baseman while playing for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. He hit .330 with three home runs and 50 RBIs. His batting average slumped in 2006 to .265. He had one home run and 49 RBIs with the Augusta GreenJackets that year, splitting time between first and third base. In 2007, he played for the San Jose Giants, hitting .287 with 11 homers and 52 RBIs. That season, he was used as a catcher and first baseman.

In 2008, he spent time with two minor league teams, the Single-A San Jose Giants and the Double-A Connecticut Defenders, before being called up to the majors. In 273 at bats for San Jose, he hit .359 with 12 home runs and 59 RBIs. In 175 at bats with Connecticut, he hit .337 with 8 homers and 37 RBIs. In total, he hit .350 with 20 home runs and 96 RBIs in 2008.

Major leagues[link]

Sandoval was called up to the Majors on August 13, 2008. He debuted the next day, August 14, going 0-for-3. In his first MLB plate appearance, he hit a sacrifice fly for an RBI. He got his first hit in the second inning of his next game, August 16, on his way to going 3-for-5. In 41 games in 2008, he hit .345 with 3 home runs and 24 RBI, striking out only 14 times in 154 at-bats. He hit his first MLB home run on August 27 off of Livan Hernandez of the Colorado Rockies.

On defense, the Giants have used him as a catcher for pitcher Barry Zito,^[3] who gave Sandoval the nickname Kung Fu Panda.^[2] He received the nickname after a play on September 19, 2008, where he scored a run against the Los Angeles Dodgers by jumping over the tag of catcher Danny Ardoin, scoring from second base on a single by Bengie Molina.^[4]

In 2009 spring training, he batted .457, leading all batters with 80 or more at bats.^[5] On May 12, 2009, Sandoval hit his first walk-off home run to beat the Washington Nationals 9–7. In 2008, he had 145 at bats, he batted .345, while hitting into only 6 double-plays. After 73 games played, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Scott Ostler wrote that Sandoval had made the most impressive transition from the Giants farm system since 1986 when Will Clark and Robby Thompson were rookies.^[6]

Sandoval's first days in the majors were marked by a tendency to free swing. Giants hitting coach Carney Lansford noted that Sandoval contributed to the team's drawing the fewest walks in the National League at a time when the overall number of walks throughout baseball had increased. "As much as I try to get him to be disciplined, it's like caging a lion. He leaves the dugout ready to swing the bat. I literally tell him before every at-bat, 'Swing at a strike."^[7] Sandoval himself characterized his approach as: "See ball, swing." In July 2009, he was named a Sprint Final Vote candidate for the 80th annual All-Star Game for the final roster spot on the National League team.^[8] He was beat out by Shane Victorino of the Philadelphia Phillies on the last day of voting.^[9]

On July 6, 2009, Sandoval hit his first career grand slam at home at AT&T Park against the visiting Florida Marlins.

On July 30, 2009, Sandoval hit his first home run into McCovey Cove on Willie McCovey's 50th anniversary of his MLB Debut with McCovey in attendance. At the time of the home run, McCovey was being interviewed by Giants commentators Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow on the Giant's flagship station CSN Bay Area. Sandoval also made Giants history for most hits by a Giants switch-hitter in a single season with 189 in 2009.

Sandoval finished the 2009 season with the second-highest batting average among NL hitters, at .330, and finished seventh in NL MVP voting.^[10]

Sandoval, however, saw a sophomore slump in 2010, with a .268 batting average, 13 home runs, and 63 RBI. Sandoval hired Triple Threat Performance of Tempe, AZ to help him lose weight over the offseason and to help improve his performance.^[11] By the time that Spring Training started he had lost a reported 38 pounds.^[12] In his first three 2011 Spring Training games, Sandoval connected for 2 home runs.

Entering 2011, the Giants made a publicized campaign called "Operation Panda," which was aimed at getting Sandoval into better shape during the offseason and shedding the extra pounds.^[13] "Operation Panda" worked masterfully, with the third baseman losing 30-plus pounds, and more importantly, it led to results on the field for Sandoval. After a subpar 2010 season, Sandoval returned to 2009 form. He got off to a good start in 2011 but however suffered a broken hamate bone in late April and missed 4–6 weeks. On July 10, 2011, Sandoval was selected to the National League All-Star team. In his first All-Star at bat, Sandoval hit an RBI ground-rule double and NL won 2011 MLB All-Star Game.

On September 15, 2011, Sandoval hit for the cycle at Colorado against pitcher Jhoulys Chacin. He had (in order) a two-run HR in the 1st, single in the 2nd, double in the 5th and a triple in the 6th.^[14] On September 19, 2011, Sandoval earned his first career "NL Player of the Week" Award.^[15] In 2011, Sandoval hit .315 with 23 home runs and 70 RBI's, which is a significant improvement from 2010. He only had 462 at-bats which is a lot less than his other at-bat season totals in 2009, and 2010.

On April 26, 2012, Pablo Sandoval hit a single in the 4th inning of a game against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. This was the 19th consecutive game since Opening Day in which Sandoval had a hit, setting a Giants franchise record for longest consecutive hitting streak to begin a season. The previous record - of 18 games - was set by Johnny Rucker in 1945.^[16]

Personal[link]

Sandoval was born in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela.^[17] Sandoval is a devout Roman Catholic, and blesses himself after each base hit. He attributes his success to his faith, saying it is important to be “seizing the opportunities offered in life by God and the need to fight tirelessly, not to survive but to excel.”^[18]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Pablo Sandoval on Twitter
• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)

Sir Ian McColl Kennedy LLM LLD (born 14 September 1941) is a British academic lawyer who has specialised in the law and ethics of health. He was appointed to chair the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority in 2009^[5]

1952–1959: He attended King Edward VI College, Stourbridge, West Midlands where he spent 4 years in the sixth form.

1960–1963: He attended University College, London, graduated 1st class Hons. LLB.

1963–1965: Fulbright Fellow at University of California, Berkley (LLM).

1965–1971: Sub-Dean, Tutor and Lecturer in Law at University College, London (LLD).

1966–1967: Ford Foundation fellow of Yale University and Mexico University.

In the summer of 1969 Kennedy visited Cuba to study the administration of justice, supported by a Hayter Fellowship awarded by the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London (by Prof. R.A. Humphreys). In December/January 1970-1971 he returned to Cuba to gain information for his paper titled “Cuba's Ley Contra La Vagancia - The Law on Loafing”.^[6]

Kennedy was Dean of the Law School at King’s College London, from 1986 to 1996. Kennedy is presently Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at University College London. He is an honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple.

Kennedy was the BBC's Reith lecturer (on the subject of "Unmasking Medicine") in 1980^[7] and hosted many editions of After Dark on Channel 4.^[8]

Committees and Inquiries[link]

Sir Ian has been a member of numerous committees and inquiries.^[9]

For nine years, he was a member of the General Medical Council. In 1978, he founded the Centre of Medical Laws and Ethics, of which he later became president. He has been a member of the Medicines Commission, and the Department of Health advisory group on AIDS. His is a member of the board of the UK Research Integrity Office.^[9]

In 1997, he took part in a UK Government inquiry that gave cautious approval to xenotransplantation (the use of animal-to-human transplants), and in 1998, was a member of the committee that recommended pet passports.

Kennedy was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 1991-2002 and Chair during 1998-2002.

He chaired the public inquiry into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (1998–2001),^[10] which concluded that paediatric cardiac surgery services at Bristol were "simply not up to the task", because of shortages of key surgeons and nurses, and a lack of leadership, accountability, and teamwork. This resulted in his becoming chair of the Healthcare Commission,^[11] from its creation (in shadow form) in 2003, until it was merged with other regulatory bodies to form the Care Quality Commission in 2009. In October 2009, Kennedy became chair of The King's Fund’s inquiry into the quality of general practice in England, replacing Niall Dickson.^[12]

Involvement in medicine[link]

In 2010, he was elected inaugural Vice-President of the College of Medicine,^[13] an organisation set up to bring together patients and clincians on an equal footing^[14]. Several commenatators, writing in The Guardian and The British Medical Journal claim that this organisation is simply a re-branding of the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health. This has been denied by the College of Medicine^[15] whose President is Graeme Catto, for seven years the President of the General Medical Council^[16]

Awards[link]

Kennedy was knighted in 2002 for services to medical law and bioethics. He is an Honorary Fellow of:^[9]

• British Academy (2002)
• Royal College of General Practitioners (2002)
• Royal College of Physicians (2003)
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (2004)
• Royal College of Anaesthetists (2004)
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (2005)

He was also awarded an Honorary DSc degree by the University of Glasgow in 2003.^[17]

Publications[link]

• Ian Kennedy (19 September 1991). Treat Me Right: Essays in Medical Law and Ethics. Clarendon Paperbacks. ISBN 0-19-825558-6. 
• Ian Kennedy and Andrew Grubb (March 1994). Medical Law: Text and Materials. Butterworths. ISBN 0-406-90325-5. 
• Lord Woolf, Ian Kennedy, Gloria Freilich, Liam J. Donaldson, John Carrier (2007). Law, Medicine and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Lord Jakobovits. Cancerkin. ISBN 0-9554799-0-8. 
• Ian Kennedy and Andrew Grubb (2010). Principles of Medical Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-954440-9. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bio at the UK Research Integrity Office