Rick Ankiel

Full Name: Richard Alexander Ankiel	Current Team: Kansas City Royals
Height/Weight: 6'1"/210	Uniform Number: 24
Birthdate: July 19, 1979	Entry Draft: 2nd round (72nd) in 1997
Birthplace: Fort Pierce, Florida	Drafted By: St. Louis Cardinals
Primary Position: CF	College: N/A

Biography[]

Born on July 19, 1979 in Fort Pierce, Florida, Rick Ankiel (Richard Alexander Ankiel) played for the St. Louis Cardinals for his entire 4 year career. Ankiel broke into the bigs on August 23, 1999 with the St. Louis Cardinals, and put up a 3.50 ERA in 175 innings pitched in 2000, his rookie year.

Most people believe that Rick Ankiel's best season was 2000, when he posted a 3.50 ERA, won 11 games and struck out 194 batters.

Ankiel was one of the players named in baseball's Mitchell Report. The section under which his name appears is under the "Alleged Internet Purchases" portion of the report. The report goes on to rehash how the New York Daily News reported on September 7, 2007 that Ankiel had ordered 8 shipments of HGH from Signature Pharmacy. These orders were received by the pharmacy between January and December 2004, and Ankiel was issued prescriptions for these by Dr. William Gogan of the Health and Rejuvenation Center of Palm Beach Gardens.

When questioned about the shipments of HGH, Ankiel claimed that he used the shipments to recover from 2003 ligament surgery, but declined further comment, invoking medical privacy laws, saying only that every medication he had taken was from a legally licensed physician.

According to the report, the Commissioner's Office interviewed Ankiel on September 11, 2007 to discuss these allegations, and on December 6, 2007, decided there was not enough evidence to warrant any sort of discipline against Ankiel.

Statistics[]

Pitching Stats[]

Year	Team		G	GS	W	L	ERA	K	R	ER	SV	IP	H	HR	BB	IB	WP	HBP
1999	STL	N	9	5	0	1	3.27	39	12	12	1	33	26	2	14	0	2	1
2000	STL	N	31	30	11	7	3.50	194	80	68	0	175	137	21	90	2	12	6
2001	STL	N	6	6	1	2	7.12	27	21	19	0	24	25	7	25	0	5	3
2004	STL	N	5	0	1	0	5.40	9	6	6	0	10	10	2	1	0	1	2
Total			51	41	13	10	3.90	269	119	105	1	242	198	32	130	2	20	12

Fielding Stats[]

Year	Team		POS	G	GS	INN	PO	A	ERR	DP	PB	SB	CS	PkO	AVG
1999	STL	N	P	9	5	33	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
2000	STL	N	P	31	30	175	8	14	7	2	3	9	7	1	.759
2001	STL	N	P	6	6	24	0	3	0	0	1	1	1	0	1.000
2004	STL	N	P	5	0	10	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
2007	STL	N	OF	44	40	350.2	91	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	.979
2007	STL	N	RF	27	24	197.2	58	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.968
2007	STL	N	CF	22	14	137	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
2007	STL	N	LF	2	2	16	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
2008	STL	N	OF	106	100	899.1	236	4	8	1	0	0	0	0	.968
2008	STL	N	CF	89	84	766.1	213	4	5	1	0	0	0	0	.977
2008	STL	N	LF	17	16	131	22	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	.880
2008	STL	N	RF	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.880
2009	STL	N	OF	101	90	795.2	203	5	5	2	0	0	0	0	.977
2009	STL	N	CF	66	52	458.2	134	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	.971
2009	STL	N	RF	27	21	183.2	28	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	.968
2009	STL	N	LF	25	17	153.1	41	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000
Total			OF	251	230	2045.2	530	12	15	3	0	0	0	0	.973
Total			CF	177	150	1362	374	5	9	1	0	0	0	0	.977
Total			RF	55	45	383.1	87	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	.968
Total			P	51	41	242	11	20	7	2	4	10	8	1	.816
Total			LF	44	35	300.1	69	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	.960

Batting Stats[]

Year	Team		G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	2B	3B	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SB	IBB	GDP
1999	STL	N	9	10	0	1	0	0	.100	.100	.100	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0
2000	STL	N	35	68	8	17	2	9	.250	.292	.382	1	1	4	20	0	1	0	0	1
2001	STL	N	6	8	1	0	0	0	.000	.111	.000	0	0	1	5	0	1	0	0	0
2004	STL	N	5	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
2007	STL	N	47	172	31	49	11	39	.285	.328	.535	8	1	13	41	0	1	1	0	3
2008	STL	N	120	413	65	109	25	71	.285	.328	.535	21	2	42	100	5	0	2	3	8
2009	STL	N	122	372	50	86	11	38	.231	.285	.387	21	2	26	99	3	0	4	4	5
Total			344	1044	155	262	49	157	.251	.311	.452	51	6	87	269	8	4	7	7	17

Transactions[]

Selected by St. Louis Cardinals in the 2nd round of the free-agent draft (June 3, 1997 - signed August 28, 1997).