{"id":312623,"date":"2025-11-28T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312623\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:51:08","slug":"the-new-stranger-things-character-was-also-an-mlb-all-star-for-the-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312623\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Stranger Things character was also an MLB All Star for the Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new character on Stranger Things Season 5 named Derek Turnbow.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> pitcher named Derrick Turnbow.<\/p>\n<p>And if you factor in when the Stranger Things show takes place, they&#8217;re pretty much the same age.<\/p>\n<p>The new season takes place in November 1987. The guy who turned into the MLB pitcher would&#8217;ve been 9 years old then. While it&#8217;s not specifically stated in the show, that seems like a ballpark age for the fictional Derek, too.<\/p>\n<p>Did someone writing the script have a strong Brewers fandom? It sure seems possible.<\/p>\n<p>The real-life Turnbow was a fifth-round pick by the Phillies in the 1997 MLB Draft out of Franklin High School in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>He made his MLB debut in 2000 with the Angels. He didn&#8217;t get back to the majors in 2001 or 2002, returning in 2003-04 to pitch in parts of two more campaigns in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>Turnbow joined the Brewers in 2005 and put up a 1.74 ERA in that first season.<\/p>\n<p>He made his only All-Star Game in 2006 as part of the craziest tale of two halves season ever. He finished the year with a 6.87 ERA. But his ERA at the end of June had been 3.28, and he was coming off such a great season prior that he got noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Turnbow pitched two more seasons with the Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>He ended with a 4.30 ERA with 265 strikeouts and 168 walks in 257.2 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>And apparently he had also been a part of a fictional mysterious town a couple decades earlier.<\/p>\n<p>More news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a new character on Stranger Things Season 5 named Derek Turnbow. There&#8217;s a former Milwaukee Brewers pitcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-312623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}