John Berton Axford (born April 1, 1983), nicknamed "Ax Man", is a Canadian professional baseball pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Blue Jays, Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, Oakland Athletics, and Los Angeles Dodgers.\n', '

Axford led the National League in saves in 2011, when he won the Rolaids Relief Man Award.\n', '

Raised in Port Dover, Ontario, Axford attended Assumption College School in nearby Brantford. Because the school didn\'t have an interscholastic baseball program, he played for Port Dover Minor Baseball, Team Ontario and Team Canada. His combined four-year totals with the three clubs were a 37–12 record, a 1.88 earned run average (ERA), 278 innings pitched, 432 strikeouts and 173 walks.\n', '

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