About Melvin Bunch
Born 1971. Melvin Bunch is an American baseball player.
Melvin Lynn Bunch, Jr. (born November 4, 1971) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played parts of two seasons in the majors: with the Kansas City Royals and for the Seattle Mariners. He also played three seasons in Japan for the Chunichi Dragons from through .
Bunch graduated from Liberty-Elyau High School in Texarkana, Texas, in 1990, then from Texarkana Community College in 1992. The Royals drafted him in the 15th round of the 1992 MLB draft. He was a Midwest League All-Star in 1993. He missed almost three months in 1994 with a shoulder injury.
Bunch made the Royals' Opening Day roster in 1995, making his MLB debut on May 6. He had four separate stints in the majors, going 1–3 with a 5.63 earned run average (ERA) in 13 games, five of them starts.
In his second start with Chunichi in April 2000, Bunch became the fourth American to throw a no-hitter in Nippon Professional Baseball. Bunch left the Dragons and returned to the United States in August 2002 to seek treatment for anxiety attacks. He did not play in professional baseball again.
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American baseball player
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Melvin Bunch was born on 4 November 1971 in Texarkana.
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