Jeffrey Allison (born November 7, 1984) is a former professional baseball pitcher. High school career Allison played high school baseball at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School in Peabody, Massachusetts. In his senior year, Allison was named the 2003 Massachusetts Gatorade High School Baseball Player of the Year and was also named the 2003 Baseball America High School Player of the Year, becoming the first player from Massachusetts to win the honor. In this senior year Allison tossed 63 innings without allowing an earned run. He was 9–0, with 142 strikeouts and nine walks, surrendering just 13 hits and one unearned run. He also batted .441 with two home runs and 29 RBI. Allison was selected in the first round (16th overall) of the 2003 MLB Draft by the Florida Marlins and signed with them 2 months later. The Marlins paid Allison a reported $1.85 million signing bonus. Professional career After signing with the Marlins in 2003, the team did not want to strain Allison's arm after a fairly long high school season and he only appeared in 3 games with the Gulf Coast Marlins of the Gulf Coast League for rookies. Allison went 0–2 with an ERA of 1.00 in 9 innings pitched. Allison missed the entire season in 2004 as the Florida Marlins placed him on their restricted list. Allison was rumored to have entered a substance abuse treatment program and was forced to forfeit a portion of his signing bonus money. In 2005, the Marlins began to ease Allison back into professional baseball. They placed him with the Single A Greensboro Grasshoppers and he started 17 games going 5–4 with a 4.18 ERA and 83 strikeouts in 94.2 innings pitched. Allison's issues with substance abuse continued and he did not play professional baseball for 2 years. Allison made a comeback in 2008 after being sober for fifteen months. He was assigned by the Florida Marlins to the Single A Jupiter Hammerheads and pitched in 26 games, going 9–8 with a 5.22 ERA and 69 strikeouts in 120.2 innings pitched. He was also named to the mid-season Florida State League All-Star Team. In 2009, Allison was assigned again to the Single A Jupiter Hammerheads. In June he was named as a mid-season All-Star for the second year in a row. He finished the season with a 7–9 record with the Hammerheads and a 3.68 ERA in 25 games pitched,