Matthew Wilkie Childers (born December 3, 1978 in Douglas, Georgia

Douglas, Georgia

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) is an American

United States

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 Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 pitcher

Pitcher

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 who currently plays for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

The is a baseball team founded in 2004; it played its first season in the Japanese Pacific League in 2005. It is simply called Rakuten . The team was created to fill the void left by the merger of the Orix Blue Wave and the Kintetsu Buffaloes, after the 2004 season due to financial difficulties,...

 in Japan

Japan

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.

Career

He has made a total of 11 appearances in Major League Baseball games: eight with the Milwaukee Brewers

Milwaukee Brewers

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 in and three with the Atlanta Braves

Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....

 in .

Childers spent the season with the Phillies' Triple-A affiliate, the Ottawa Lynx

Ottawa Lynx

The Ottawa Lynx were a minor league baseball team that formerly competed in the Triple-A International League from 1993 to 2007. The team's home field was Lynx Stadium in Ottawa, Ontario. Over the team's 15 seasons, it was the Triple-A Minor League affiliate of the Montreal Expos , Baltimore...

 of the International League

International League

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. He was re-signed by the Phillies on December 7, 2007. In , he played for the Phillies' Triple-A affiliate, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs

Lehigh Valley IronPigs

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs are a minor league baseball team that plays in the International League. The IronPigs are the Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies. The team plays their home games at Coca-Cola Park, which is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania...

 becoming a free agent at the end of the season. In December 2008, he signed with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan.

External links

• Matt Childers' MILB Biography