Canes Retire Arteaga's Jersey
Feb. 5, 2003
On Wednesday, February 5th, the University of Miami Hurricanes retired thejersey number of former pitcher JD Arteaga. Arteaga was a Hurricane from1994-1997. During that time, he set UM records for career starts (72) aswell as career wins (43). Arteaga’s career spanned 458.1 innings, placinghim second on the all-time list. He spent last year with the Houston Astrostriple-A affiliation the New Orleans Zephyrs. Arteaga will be looking tomake the Astros’ squad when he reports for spring training later this month.
Other Hurricanes to have their baseball jerseys retired are Orlando Gonzalez(#20), Charles Johnson (#23), Stan Jakubowski (#29), Randy Guerra (#25),Neal Heaton (#26), Skip Bertman (#15), Mike Fiore (#12), Doug Shields (#5)and legendary head coach Ron Fraser (#1).
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