David Cone is a retired American professional baseball pitcher who has a net worth of $30 million. David Cone played for five different MLB teams between 1986 and 2003. During the 1990s, he won five World Series championships, one with the Toronto Blue Jays and four with the Yankees.
In 1999, David pitched a perfect game for the Yankees. The photograph used in this article depicts David being hoisted aloft by his teammates on the day he pitched the perfect game. He was a five-time All-Star. After retiring from playing, Cone became the Yankees’ principal color commentator.
Who is David Cone?
Joan and Edwin Cone gave birth to David Cone on January 2, 1963, in Kansas City, Missouri. He went to Jesuit Rockhurst High School as a teen and played football and basketball there. Because the school did not have a baseball team, Cone participated in the collegiate Ban Johnson League during the summer. After graduating from Rockhurst, he attended the University of Missouri.
How old is David Cone?
He is currently 61 years old.
What is David Cone’s net worth?
He is estimated to be worth $30 Million.
What is David Cone’s career?
The Kansas City Royals selected Cone in the 1981 Major League Baseball draft. He went on to have a 22-7 record and a 2.21 ERA in his first two professional seasons with the Royals’ development team. After missing the 1983 season due to an injury, Cone played for the Double-A Memphis Chicks in 1984. He later played with the Class AAA Omaha Royals in 1985 and 1986, where he became a relief pitcher.
In June 1986, Cone made his major league debut in relief of Bret Saberhagen. He made three more appearances for the Royals before returning to Omaha. Cone returned to the major leagues in September.
Before the 1987 season, Cone was dealt to the New York Mets. In his first season with the team, he finished 5-6 with a 3.71 ERA and 68 strikeouts in 21 games. Cone improved dramatically during the 1988 season, with his first start being in a complete game shutout of the Atlanta Braves. He concluded the regular season with a 20-3 record and a 2.22 ERA, good for third place in the National League Cy Young Award voting. The Mets won the NL East before losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. Cone continued to perform well during his first stint with the Mets, topping the National League in strikeouts in 1990 and 1991.
In an August triumph over the Cincinnati Reds, he became the 16th National League pitcher and the 25th MLB starter to pitch an immaculate inning. Cone accomplished another great feat in the final game of the 1991 regular season, striking out 19 batters in a shutout against the Philadelphia Phillies. In the process, he tied with fellow Mets player Tom Seaver for the second-highest number of strikeouts in nine innings.
In the summer of 1992, the Mets sent Cone to the Toronto Blue Jays. With the team, he was 4-3 with a 2.55 ERA and 47 strikeouts. The Blue Jays went on to win the AL East and the ALCS, advancing to the World Series. Cone earned his first World Series ring as the squad defeated the Braves in six games.
Cone signed as a free agent with his original team, the Royals, for the 1993 season. He went on to have a solid season, with a 3.33 ERA in 254 innings. Cone excelled during the strike-shortened 1994 season, with a 2.94 ERA, and won the AL Cy Young Award. Four days after the 1994-95 MLB strike ended, Cone was dealt back to the Blue Jays. He was 9-6 with a 3.38 ERA when the fifth-place Blue Jays agreed to trade him to the second-place New York Yankees.
Cone excelled with the New York Yankees after being acquired in the summer of 1995. That season, he went 9-2 as the squad won the wild card. The Yankees eventually lost to the Seattle Mariners in the ALDS.
Cone re-signed with the Yankees on a three-year contract this offseason. Despite spending much of the 1996 regular season on the disabled list due to an arm aneurysm, he returned to join the Yankees for the World Series victory over the Braves. It was the Yankees’ first World Series title in 18 years. Cone won another World Series triumph in 1998, the same year he won the ALDS and ALCS championship games.
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