page_title: Tim Collins (baseball)
section_title: Toronto Blue Jays
hierarchical_section_title: Tim Collins (baseball) / Professional career / Toronto Blue Jays
caption_attribution_description: English: Tim Collins pitching on May 5, 2008.
context_page_description: Timothy Michael Collins is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Colorado Rockies organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals, Washington Nationals, and Chicago Cubs.
context_section_description: Toronto Blue Jays' general manager J. P. Ricciardi discovered Collins after he was pitching in an American Legion Baseball game. After going undrafted, Collins signed with the Blue Jays out of high school as an undrafted free agent and began his professional career in 2007 with the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays of the Gulf Coast League Northern Division. In 7 games, Collins was involved in no decisions and had an ERA of 4.50. The next season, Collins was promoted to the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League. That season, Collins went 4–2 with a 1.58 ERA, 98 strikeouts, and 14 saves in 49 games, all in relief. He was fifth in the league in ERA that season. His 14 saves ranked him third in the entire Blue Jays organization in that category. In 2009, Collins began the season with the Class-A Advanced Dunedin Blue Jays of the Florida State League. In 40 games with Dunedin, he went 7–4 with a 2.37 ERA, 99 strikeouts, and 3 saves. He was named to the Florida State League All-Star team that season. Collins was later promoted to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Eastern League. Collins compiled a record of 2–3 with a 5.68 ERA, and 17 strikeouts in 9 games with New Hampshire. On the season, Collins had a combined record of 9–7 with a 2.91 ERA in 77​¹⁄₃ innings pitched. Collins was rated as having the best curveball in the Blue Jays organization by Baseball America in 2010. Collins was selected as the Toronto Blue Jays organization's Postseason Player of the Year by MLB.com.
caption: Collins pitching for the Lansing Lugnuts in 2008
exif: {"Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D300", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.6001.18000", "Image DateTime": "2010:02:27 16:47:44", "Image HostComputer": "Mac OS X 10.5.2", "Image ExifOffset": "2336", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "1/96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "1/96", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "4826", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "2307", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/80", "EXIF FNumber": "14/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Aperture Priority", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "280", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2008:05:05 21:34:25", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2008:05:05 21:34:25", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "200", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "512", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "581", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "7D6F47D22FE54792AF9EBD89814CA75C", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}