Marco Gonzales
American baseball player (born 1992) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marco Elias Gonzales (born February 16, 1992) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals and Seattle Mariners. He attended Gonzaga University, where he played college baseball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs as a pitcher and first baseman.
Marco Gonzales | |
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Pittsburgh Pirates – No. 27 | |
Pitcher | |
Born: (1992-02-16) February 16, 1992 (age 32) Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S. | |
Bats: Left Throws: Left | |
MLB debut | |
June 25, 2014, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |
MLB statistics (through April 13, 2024) | |
Win–loss record | 65–49 |
Earned run average | 4.11 |
Strikeouts | 676 |
Teams | |
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At Gonzaga, Gonzales won the West Coast Conference Player of the Year, Pitcher of the Year, and Freshman of the Year awards. Gonzales also was chosen as an All-American and named the John Olerud Award winner for 2013. The Cardinals selected him with the 19th overall pick in the first round of the 2013 MLB draft. In Minor League Baseball in 2014, he was a Texas League midseason All-Star and Pitcher of the Week selection and the Cardinals' Minor League Pitcher of the Year. He made his MLB debut in 2014, and underwent Tommy John surgery in 2016 for a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow. The Cardinals traded him to the Mariners in 2017.