Claude Lee Edge (born July 18, 1956) is a former

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Career

Edge graduated from El Camino High School in

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and was featured in '' Faces in the Crowd'' in the June 24, 1974 issue of ''

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''."''Faces in the Crowd''," ''Sports Illustrated'', June 24, 1974.
Retrieved October 23, 2020 He was drafted by the

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as the sixth pick overall of the 1974 amateur draft. Edge was selected by the

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in the

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. Edge played his only season in the Major Leagues in 1979, in which the 6'3" right-hander made nine starts for the Blue Jays. He pitched 51 innings, won three games, lost four, completed one game, gave up 60 hits, 30 earned runs (for a 5.23

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), walked 24 batters, and struck out 19. The Blue Jays released Edge prior to the start of the 1980 season. On April 10, he signed as a free agent with the

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. Edge spent two seasons with Atlanta's Triple-A affiliate, the

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. Before the 1982 season, Edge was traded from the Braves to the

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for Mike Colbern. Chicago then packaged Edge with

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in a trade to the

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for

Vance Law Vance Aaron Law (born October 1, 1956) is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1980–81), Chicago White Sox (1982–84), Montreal Expos (1985–87), Chicag ...

and Ernie Camacho.

References

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