Full Name: Raymond Keith King
Position:  P 
Born:  January 15, 1974  
Place: Chicago, Illinois 
Height:  6-1   Weight:  230 
Bats:  Left   Throws:  Left 
High School:  Ripley (TN)   College:  Lambuth University (Tenn.)
Drafted:  Selected by Cincinnati Reds in 8th round (223rd overall) of 1995 amateur entry draft (June Regular Phase)


The Rockies did not pick up Ray King's 2007 club option. (10/26/06)

Ray King will not be on the team in 2007 so we won't chat about him much other than to say he had a disappointing season with the Rox in 2006.

10/14/06..
The Rockies have told Ray King's agent to assume the left-handed reliever won't be back. Post

7/21/06
The growing opinion from some executives contacted Thursday was King would soon be dealt. Post

2/28/06
Veteran reliever Ray King has replaced Jason Jennings as the Rockies' player representative.

2/22/06... addition.. MLB.com
Efficiency could make King a money pitcher for the Rockies, who plan to use him as a lefty setup man for lefty closer Brian Fuentes. Manager Clint Hurdle said he'll keep 70 appearances as a guideline, keeping in mind that the altitude and Coors Field tends to wear on pitchers.

YEAR  TEAM       W  L  ERA   G GS SV SVO   IP   H   R   ER HR HBP  BB  SO
1999  Cubs       0  0 5.91  10  0  0   0  10.2  11   8   7  2   1  10   5
2000  Brewers    3  2 1.26  36  0  0   1  28.2  18   7   4  1   0  10  19
2001  Brewers    0  4 3.60  82  0  1   4  55.0  49  22  22  5   1  25  49
2002  Brewers    3  2 3.05  76  0  0   1  65.0  61  24  22  5   3  24  50
2003  Braves     3  4 3.51  80  0  0   1  59.0  46  30  23  3   1  27  43
2004  Cardinals  5  2 2.61  86  0  0   1  62.0  43  19  18  1   3  24  40
2005  Cardinals  4  4 3.38  77  0  0   6  40.0  46  17  15  4   3  16  23
2006  Rockies    1  4 4.43  67  0  1   2  44.2  56  26  22  6   2  20  23
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Career Totals   19 22 3.28 514  0  2 16  365.0 330 153 133 27  14 156 252
 
2006 RoxHead
Ray King was acquired from the Cardinals by trading Larry Bigbie and AAAron Miles. The Cards are short on relievers, yet they still made this deal so it makes one wonder how effective King still is. The idea from the front office is that King will share the setup role with Mike DeJean and Jose Mesa, but RoxHead is thinking that he'll fall into the situational lefty role.

Update...12/16/05...MLB.com
In 2000 and 2001, King was with the Milwaukee Brewers pitching for current Rockies pitching coach Bob Apodaca. King said Apodaca challenged him to not limit himself to a specialist role.

"He showed me a lot of things to work on, how to get the ball inside against left-handers so they can't square the ball up, and how to pitch to righties down and away," King said. "Plus he encouraged me to throw my breaking ball. I'm glad to be back with 'Dac.' He was my foundation.