Esmerling Vásquez
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| Esmerling Vásquez | |
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 Vásquez with the Arizona Diamondbacks | |
| Saitama Seibu Lions – No. 42 | |
| Relief pitcher | |
| Born: November 7, 1983 Tenares, Dominican Republic | |
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| April 26, 2009, for the Arizona Diamondbacks | |
| MLB statistics (through 2012 season) | |
| Win–loss record | 5–12 |
| Earned run average | 4.86 |
| Strikeouts | 134 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Teams | |
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Esmerling Vásquez (born November 7, 1983) is a professional baseball pitcher for the Saitama Seibu Lions of the Nippon Professional Baseball League. He has played in Major League Baseball from 2009 to 2012 for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Minnesota Twins. He spent 2014 with the EDA Rhinos in the Chinese Professional Baseball League.
Baseball career
Arizona Diamondbacks
Vásquez signed as an undrafted free agent in 2003 by the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Vásquez played for the Double-A Mobile BayBears in 2007. He started in all 29 games he played in and went 10-6 with a 2.99 ERA. Following the season, the Diamondbacks named Vásquez as their minor league pitcher of the year.[citation needed] His contract was purchased on November 20, 2007.
Vásquez was called up to the Diamondbacks on April 26, 2009, and made his Major League debut later that day.
He was demoted to Triple A Reno on April 17, 2010 to make room for Kris Benson but was recalled 2 days later after Conor Jackson was injured
On Memorial Day, 2010, as a member of one of the worst bullpens in MLB history, Vasquez committed a balk in the bottom of the ninth against the Dodgers, allowing Casey Blake to score the winning run. The event was known as a "balk-off".
In his career with the Diamondbacks, Vásquez went 5-10 with a 4.66 ERA in 141 games with a 1.496 WHIP
Minnesota Twins
Vásquez was claimed off waivers by the Minnesota Twins on September 27, 2011. He did not pitch for the Twins that year.
Vásquez spent most of 2012 with Triple-A Rochester, where he went 9-6 with a 2.78 ERA in 31 games, 8 of them starts. Called up on September 1, Vásquez went 0-2 with a 5.68 in 6 starts for the Twins. On November 5, Vásquez signed a minor league deal with the Twins.[1]
On June 23, 2013, the Twins released Vásquez.
References
- ^ Christensen, Joe (November 5, 2012). "Twins reach minor league deals with Deduno, Vasquez". Minneapolis Star Tribune.
External links
- Career statistics from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
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