Derek Aucoin

Derek Aucoin
Derek Aucoin
	Pitcher
	Born: March 27, 1970; Lachine, Quebec, Canada
	Died: December 26, 2020 (aged 50); Montreal, Quebec, Canada
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
	May 21, 1996, for the Montreal Expos
Last MLB appearance
	May 25, 1996, for the Montreal Expos
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	0–1
Earned run average	3.38
Strikeouts	1
	Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
	Montreal Expos (1996);

Derek Alfred Aucoin (27 March 1970 – 26 December 2020) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Aucoin pitched in two games for the Montreal Expos in the 1996 season. He had a 0–1 record, in 2.2 innings, with a 3.38 ERA. He died from brain cancer on 26 December 2020 at the age of 50.^[1]

He was signed by the Montreal Expos as an amateur free agent in 1989.

Professional baseball career

Montreal Expos

In his first professional season, 1989, with the Gulf Coast League Expos he went 2–1 with a 2.66 ERA in seven games, three starts.

While with the Short-Season Jamestown Expos in 1990 Aucoin compiled a record of 1–3 with a 4.46 ERA in eight games, all starts.

His next two seasons, 1991 and 1992, were spent at the Class-A level. In 1991, he went 3–6 with a 4.28 ERA in 41 games, four starts with the Sumter Flyers. In 1992, he went 3–2 with a 3.00 ERA in 39 games, two starts with the Rockford Expos.

Aucoin was promoted to the Advanced-A West Palm Beach Expos in 1993. He compiled a record of 4–4 with a 4.24 ERA in 38 games, six starts.

In 1994 Aucoin split the season between West Palm Beach and the Double-A Harrisburg Senators of the Eastern League He went a combined 3–4 with a 2.82 ERA in 38 games. Staying at Harrisburg in 1995 he went 2–4 with a 4.96 ERA in 29 games.

Aucoin split the 1996 season between the Expos and the Triple-A Ottawa Lynx of the International League. With Ottawa, he went 3–5 with a 3.96 ERA in 52 games. On 21 May 1996 he made his Major League debut against the San Francisco Giants. In 2⁄3 of an inning, he gave up one earned run and registered a loss. He would finish his Major League Career going 0–1 with a 3.38 ERA in two games.

With West Palm Beach and Ottawa in 1997 he went a combined 0–1 with a very poor 11.37 ERA through 25 games.

New York Mets

In his final season, 1998, Aucoin split the season between the Gulf Coast League Mets, the Advanced-A St. Lucie Mets, the Double-A Binghamton Mets and the Triple-A Norfolk Tides. He went a combined 1–0 with a 6.21 ERA in 28 games.

Personal life

In April 2011, Derek married Isabelle Rochefort. They had a son, Dawson Paul Aucoin, named after Hall of Fame player Andre Dawson.

References

^ "Former Montreal Expos pitcher Derek Aucoin has died of cancer at age 50". CTV News. December 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-27.

External links

Career statistics from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)

[1] "Former Montreal Expos pitcher Derek Aucoin has died of cancer at age 50". CTV News. December 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-27.

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