Cubs’ Chad Fox Career Likely Over
May 10, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Baseball
When healthy, Chad Fox has been a quality reliever. The problem for the current Chicago Cubs pitcher is that he has been healthy so rarely in his big league career. After his latest right elbow injury, he may no longer have any more pitches left to throw.
On the season, Fox has pitched only one-third of an inning and has given up five earned runs on two hits and three walks. The result is a staggering 135.00 ERA.
Over 219 games in his career, the 38-year-old reliever has pitched 228 innings and has 262 strikeouts with a 3.79 ERA. However, he hasn’t pitched at least 40 innings in a season since 2004. In fact, he didn’t pitch at all in 2006 or 2007.
In total, he pitched more than 40 innings only three times — in 1998 and 2001 with the Milwaukee Brewers and in 2003 while splitting time between the Boston Red Sox and the Florida Marlins. His best season came in 2001 when he pitched a career-high 66.2 innings, a career-high 80 strikeouts, a career-high five wins and a career-low 1.89 ERA.
Fox is scheduled to get his elbow checked out be specialists but sources close to the team speculate that he may not want to go through another long rehab process that may affect his quality of life after baseball.
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