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Chance Ruffin
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Starting Pitcher
Team: Detroit Tigers
Ht / Wt: 6'0' / 185
DOB: 9/8/1988
Bats / Throws: Right / Right


Chance Ruffin (born September 8, 1988) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.

Professional career

Ruffin was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the first round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft out of the University of Texas at Austin.

Ruffin is expected to be called up to the majors for the first time on July 25, 2011.

Personal

His father Bruce Ruffin, played in the major leagues from 1987 to 1997.


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Tigers prospect Chance Ruffin named to Arizona Fall League All-Star squad
Published: Tuesday, November 02, 2010, 6:00 PM Updated: Tuesday, November 02, 2010, 6:46 PM

By Steve Kornacki

Right-handed reliever Chance Ruffin, a high draft pick of the Detroit Tigers in June, is the lone player from the organization selected to the West Division roster for the Arizona Fall League Rising Stars Game on Saturday in Surprise, Ariz.

Ruffin is 1-1 with a 6.75 ERA after six appearances for the Surprise Rafters but leads the league with three saves. He allowed three of his four earned runs in his second outing against the Mesa Solar Sox.

Ruffin has walked five and struck out three in 5 1/3 innings.

Detroit selected him in the sandwich round between the first and second rounds after a distinguished career at the University of Texas. Ruffin, 22, is the son of former major league pitcher Bruce Ruffin.

Erie SeaWolves pitching coach Ray Burris, who is working with the Rafters, was one of two pitching coaches selected for the Rising Stars Game. The 9 p.m. Saturday contest can be viewed on the MLB Network and online at mlb.com.

Regular-season league play concludes Nov. 18, and the championship game is Nov. 20.
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Tigers to call up 2010 supplemental first-round pick Chance Ruffin

Matthew Pouliot

Jul 24, 2011, 7:57 PM EDT

Chance Ruffin, the 48th overall selection in the 2010 MLB draft, will be the second player from last year’s class to make his major league debut after the Tigers call him up Monday.

Detroit announced the move after Sunday’s game. Lester Oliveros will be sent down to make room for Ruffin in the pen.

Ruffin, a University of Texas product, was just promoted to Triple-A Toledo at the end of last month. He had a 2.00 ERA and seven saves in eight appearances there, and he was 3-3 with 17 saves, a 2.09 ERA and a 55/20 K/BB ratio in 43 innings for the season.

Chance is following the same path to the majors as his father, Bruce Ruffin, who was taken in the second round out of the University of Texas in 1985 and reached the majors just a year later. Bruce went on to amass a 4.19 ERA and 63 saves in 12 big-league seasons.

Chance Ruffin joins the White Sox’s Chris Sale as the only 2010 draft products currently in the majors.
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Chance Ruffin is the closer for Texas and he is also the son of former big league pitcher Bruce Ruffin
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Ruffin brings arm, 'goofy' personality to bullpen
By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 07/25/11 9:30 PM ET

CHICAGO -- Just over a year after the Tigers drafted him, Chance Ruffin arrived in the visitors clubhouse at U.S. Cellular Field on Monday afternoon to find the infamous pink backpack for the newest Tigers reliever waiting at his locker.

He also arrived with icebreaking jokes.

"Pretty much a joke for any occasion, one-liners," Ruffin said.

Then he tested out his material.

"What do you call a flying monkey? A hot-air baboon," Ruffin said. "Jokes like that."

He calls his personality "goofy," which makes sense since he has been a closer ever since his last year at the University of Texas, before the Tigers drafted him with their second selection in the sandwich round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft. He's also the son of former Phillies and Rockies reliever Bruce Ruffin, who turned a good left arm into a 12-year Major League career, and might well have passed down a little bullpen mentality.

Ruffin certainly got the sense of competitiveness. When the Phillies and Rockies would have a family day at the park and a softball game, the younger Ruffin would always be a part of it.

"Yeah, I was," he said. "And I was always the most competitive one out there. It's a game for everybody to have fun out there, but I was out there to win."

Ruffin has fun in baseball these days, mainly through his gags and his jokes. By the time he gets through his first Major League game on Monday night, he figured, "I'll probably run through about 60 different jokes in the bullpen."

If he can go through the White Sox lineup in the later innings, that would make him a lot more entertaining for the Tigers coaching staff and front office.

After opening the year at Double-A Erie, Ruffin made just eight appearances at Triple-A Toledo before getting the call. But if the Tigers see Ruffin as a potential piece for them down the stretch, possibly as another seventh-inning right-hander, then it behooves them to get an idea what they have in him before the July 31 Trade Deadline, so they can figure out if they need more help.

Truth be told, the Tigers saw Ruffin with the potential for a fast track to the big leagues when they drafted him. His performance with the SeaWolves and Mud Hens did little to change that.

"I think this boils down to one simple thing: It appears to me that our people in the organization felt that he was better for us at this point than [Lester] Oliveros was. Period," manager Jim Leyland said. "That's what it sounds like to me."

Ruffin, not surprisingly, will take that. He became the third member of the 2010 Draft class to make it to the big leagues, joining White Sox left-hander Chris Sale and San Diego's Josh Spence.

"I hoped that one of the things that I brought to the table would be the ability to move through an organization if I pitched well enough," he said. "So that was always my goal going in."

Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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07/29/11Detroit Tigers optioned Chance Ruffin to Toledo Mud Hens.

Detroit Tigers recalled Daniel Schlereth from Toledo Mud Hens.
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Ruffin sent to Seattle to complete trade
Reliever finalizes trade for Fister, Pauley
By Jason Beck / MLB.com | 08/17/11 8:42 PM ET

DETROIT -- With Chance Ruffin now past the one-year anniversary of his signature on a pro contract, the Tigers' supplemental first-round pick from last year was officially eligible to be traded. With that, he was off to Seattle as the player to be named in the trade that brought Doug Fister and David Pauley to Detroit.

The Mariners immediately called up Ruffin and designated Aaron Laffey for assignment to make room for him. He'll join Casper Wells and Charlie Furbush in Seattle.

Ruffin spent the last 2 1/2 weeks at Triple-A Toledo, tossing 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball with five strikeouts after making his Major League debut with the Tigers in mid-July. His Tigers tenure ends with two appearance in a Detroit uniform, allowing two runs on five hits over 3 2/3 innings with no walks and three strikeouts.

Ruffin is the second Tigers relief prospect to be moved in as many days, though technically he was dealt long before the Delmon Young trade Monday that sent Lester Oliveros to Minnesota a day later. Ruffin had the higher projection, potentially fitting as a quality middle relief candidate with a chance for setup work.

"I really liked what I saw, and obviously so did [the Mariners]," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "I think he's got a very bright future."

Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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