Matt Dunbar

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1968)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |image=1988 P&L - Matt Dunbar (cropped).jpg |caption=Dunbar with the Chatham Athletics in 1988 |width= |name=Matt Dunbar |position=Pitcher |bats=Left |throws=Left |birth_date={{Birth date and age|1968|10|15}} |birth_place=Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=April 25 |debutyear=1995 |debutteam=Florida Marlins |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=May 20 |finalyear=1995 |finalteam=Florida Marlins |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Win–loss record |stat1value=0–1 |stat2label=Earned run average |stat2value=11.57 |stat3label=Strikeouts |stat3value=5 |teams= *Florida Marlins ({{mlby|1995}}) |highlights= }} '''Matthew Marshall Dunbar''' (born October 15, 1968) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the Florida Marlins in 1995.

==Biography== A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Dunbar attended Dunedin High School and Florida State University. In 1988, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod Baseball League.<ref>{{cite news | last =Bulkley | first =Nat | title = Chatham A's start season with aggressive, spirited play | pages = 42 | newspaper = The Cape Cod Chronicle | location = Chatham, MA | date = June 16, 1988 | url = https://eldredgelibrary.wssites.com/Document?db=ELDREDGELIBRARY&query=(select+21+(bytoc+(andf+(eq+YEAR+1988)+(field+WEEK_ISSUED+(phrase+June+%6016))))) }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cdthoms.shinyapps.io/CCBL/ |title=Player Stats |publisher=Cape Cod Baseball League |date= |accessdate=July 13, 2023}}</ref> He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 25th round of the 1990 amateur draft.

Dunbar played his first professional season with the Class A (Short Season) Oneonta Yankees in 1990. He made his major league debut with the Marlins in 1995, and appeared in eight games for the team that season. His final professional season was spent with the Pittsburgh Pirates' Double-A Altoona Curve and Triple-A Nashville Sounds in 1999.

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