Allen Kenneth Watson is a high school baseball coach and former left-handed

Left-handed

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 starting pitcher

Starting pitcher

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 in professional baseball

Professional baseball

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. He is a graduate of Christ The King Regional High School

Christ The King Regional High School

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 in Middle Village, New York and attended New York Institute of Technology

New York Institute of Technology

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Baseball career

Allen Watson was picked by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the 1991 amateur entry draft. He spent the next two years in the Cardinals' minor league system, making his major league debut on July 8, 1993.

In 1995, he was traded, along with Doug Creek

Doug Creek

Paul Douglas Creek is a former Major League Baseball pitcher with a nine year career from 1995–1997, 1999–2003, and 2005. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs of the National League and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays and Detroit...

 and Rich DeLucia

Rich DeLucia

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, to the San Francisco Giants for Chris Wimmer and Royce Clayton

Royce Clayton

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. At the end of the 1996 season, he and Fausto Macey were traded by the Giants to the Anaheim Angels for J. T. Snow

J. T. Snow

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. He pitched with the Angels in 1997-1998, obtaining a career high twelve wins as a starting pitcher in 1997. On June 14, 1997, Watson gave up the first-ever grand slam in interleague play to Rich Aurilia of the San Francisco Giants

San Francisco Giants

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Over the next three years, he played for the Seattle Mariners

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, New York Mets

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 and New York Yankees

New York Yankees

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, mostly in a relief role or as a spot starter, retiring after the 2000 season.

Post baseball career

Watson is currently working as a personal pitching coach for prospective athletes in the Queens area. He works primarily out of The Cage located on Metropolitan Avenue in Ridgewood.

Allen Watson is also currently running baseball clinics for all ages in Oceanside, NY at South Shore Sports Complex. He helps children of all ages with the fundamentals of baseball from fielding to hitting.

Grimsley affidavit

On December 20, 2007, Watson was named in Jason Grimsley

Jason Grimsley

Jason Alan Grimsley is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He made his debut on September 8, , and pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Anaheim Angels, New York Yankees, Kansas City Royals, Baltimore Orioles, and most recently, the Arizona Diamondbacks.-Major league...

's sworn affidavit as having used performance-enhancing drugs

Performance-enhancing drugs

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. Watson and Grimsley were teammates on the 1999-2000 New York Yankees. In a statement released by his agent, Watson denied these accusations by stating:

"I at no time over my professional baseball career used steroids or any performance-enhancing drugs. Not then, not now, not ever."

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