Dave Wainhouse

David Paul Wainhouse (born November 7, 1967) is a Canadian former professional baseball player who pitched for seven seasons in Major League Baseball. A right-hander, Wainhouse was primarily a middle reliever.

Amateur career Wainhouse attended Mercer Island High School in Mercer Island, Washington, where he played varsity baseball in his senior year. He attended college at Washington State, where he joined the baseball squad as a walk-on. Wainhouse had a strong season in his junior year, finishing with a 7–0 record.

The Montreal Expos selected Wainhouse with their first-round pick of the 1988 Major League Baseball draft, making him the first Canadian-born player picked the first round as well as the highest-ever pick out of Washington State. The season saw Wainhouse start with the Harrisburg Senators of the Double-A Eastern League, get promoted to the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians and, as a September call-up, see a two-game stint in Montreal.

While playing with Indianapolis in , Wainhouse suffered a knee injury that put him on the disabled list for the remainder of the season. He only appeared in three games for the Mariners at the start of the season before getting demoted to the minors.

A back injury kept Wainhouse out of action in . He spent the following season in the minor league systems of the Toronto Blue Jays and Florida Marlins, failing to return to the majors until , with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He split time in and between the Pirates and their Triple-A affiliate, the Calgary Cannons. At the end of the 1997 campaign, Wainhouse signed with the Colorado Rockies. Just as he did in Pittsburgh, Wainhouse spent and shuttling between the major league club and their Triple-A farm team, this time the Colorado Springs Sky Sox.

Wainhouse signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in , once again splitting time between Triple-A and the majors that year. He appeared in nine games with the Cardinals before an injury ended his season.

Wainhouse retired after the season. In a seven-season major league career, he compiled a career record of 2–3 in 85 games with an ERA of 7.37. Wainhouse now lives in Kent, Washington with his wife and two children.