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Alex Cremidan

American baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4716862
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Alexander Cremidan (born January 15, 1981) is a former professional baseball pitcher. Cremidan played in the Arizona Diamondbacks minor league system from 2003 to 2005. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of Greece's baseball team.

Baseball career

While playing college baseball at the University of California, San Diego in 2002, Cremidan, the grandson of four Greece natives, joined the Greece national baseball team. He pitched a no-hitter over Slovakia in the European pool B championship as the team prepared for the 2004 Summer Olympics as the host country. During his junior year, he finished with a 7-2 win-loss record and was named to the All-California Collegiate Athletic Association second team. He struggled with injuries in his senior season, posting a 6.21 earned run average in 11 games.

In June 2003, he was drafted in the 35th round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks. During his first minor league season in 2003, he pitched in 24 games in relief for the Missoula Osprey of the Pioneer League, ending the year with 15 saves and a 1.40 ERA. Cremidan was pitching with the Midwest League's South Bend Silver Hawks in 2004 before rejoining the Greece national team in early August for the Olympics. He pitched in four games during the tournament, as Greece failed to medal, finishing in seventh place.

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“Alex Cremidan” enters the record as american baseball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alex, Cremidan and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2003, 2005, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alex, Cremidan and American.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4716862. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2003, 2005 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from Alex Cremidan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.