When Orix Buffaloes outfielder Brian Bogusevic was in college at Tulane University, years before setting foot in Japan, he was a two-way star as a pitcher and outfielder.
He was a decent pitcher, too, earning first-team All-Conference USA and second team National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association All-American honors in 2005. Bogusevic was 13-3 with 129 strikeouts and a 3.25 ERA in 19 games on the mound for the Green Wave in 2005.
After being drafted, he even got a turn on the mound in MLB, despite being solely a position player, coming on for the Houston Astros in the ninth inning of a 14-2 blowout loss in 2012.
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