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Geo Gonzalez Loses the Series for Nationals Again

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American baseball game player

Gio González
Gio Gonzalez on April 12, 2012.jpg

González with the Nationals in 2012
Pitcher
Born: (1985-09-19) September nineteen, 1985 (age 36)
Hialeah, Florida

Batted: Right

Threw: Left
MLB debut
August 6, 2008, for the Oakland Athletics
Last MLB appearance
September 27, 2020, for the Chicago White Sox
MLB statistics
Win–loss record 131–101
Earned run average 3.seventy
Strikeouts 1,860
Teams
  • Oakland Athletics (2008–2011)
  • Washington Nationals (2012–2018)
  • Milwaukee Brewers (2018–2019)
  • Chicago White Sox (2020)
Career highlights and awards
  • ii× All-Star (2011, 2012)
  • NL wins leader (2012)

Giovany Aramis González (born September 19, 1985) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago White Sox. A two-time All-Star, González led the National League in wins and won the Warren Spahn Honor in 2012. He is of Cuban descent.

Early on life [edit]

González was born in Hialeah, Florida, to a Cuban immigrant mother from Havana and a commencement-generation Cuban-American father from New Jersey.[1] He attended Hialeah High Schoolhouse in Hialeah, for the first three years of his loftier school career, where they won 2 state championships and nearly won a third. Later on his junior year, he transferred over to Monsignor Edward Footstep High School in 2004 where he played with future Nationals teammate Chris Marrero.

Playing career [edit]

Draft and minor leagues [edit]

The Chicago White Sox selected González in the showtime round with the 38th overall selection of the 2004 MLB draft.

In 2005, he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies along with Aaron Rowand and Daniel Haigwood for slugger Jim Thome.[2] While with the Phillies, Baseball America rated González the No. 2 prospect in their farm arrangement behind Cole Hamels in 2006.[3]

In December 2006 he was traded back to the White Sox along with Gavin Floyd for Freddy García.[4] González led the pocket-sized leagues with 185 strikeouts in 150 innings in 2007.

Oakland Athletics [edit]

On January 3, 2008, the White Sox traded González along with fellow prospects Ryan Sweeney and Fautino de los Santos to the Oakland Athletics for Nick Swisher. He was ranked the No. one prospect in the White Sox system at the time of the trade.

González was called up to MLB on August 5, 2008, and made his MLB debut on August 6.[five] Post-obit the 2009 spring training campsite, he was returned to the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats.[half dozen]

González started the 2010 season throwing half dozen+ innings confronting the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He allowed 2 runs on 6 hits, striking out six and walking 1 in the 10–four win.

González was selected to the 2011 MLB All-Star Game. At the 2011 All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona, González was chosen out to the mound with 2 outs in the bottom of the eighth inning and struck out the merely batter he would face, Jay Bruce. On the final twenty-four hour period of the 2011 season, González threw xi strikeouts over eight shut-out innings against the Seattle Mariners to secure a career-loftier 16 wins for the season.

Washington Nationals [edit]

2012 [edit]

On December 23, 2011, the Athletics traded González and Robert Gilliam to the Washington Nationals for Brad Peacock, Tommy Milone, Derek Norris and A. J. Cole.[7] On January 15, 2012 González signed a 5-year extension worth $42 million through 2016 covering his arbitration-eligible years. The bargain also included society options for 2017 and 2018.[eight]

González became the start pitcher since 1918 to accept three consecutive appearances in which he finished a showtime with at least vi shutout innings and no more than ii hits allowed.[9] González prepare a Nationals record when he pitched 25 consecutive scoreless innings, that ended on Apr 29, 2012. When the 2012 MLB All-Star Game roster was announced on July 1, González found himself on information technology for the second time in his career.[10] Later that same day, he earned his 11th win on the flavor after the Nationals topped the Atlanta Braves, viii–4. González would earn ane more win in his concluding beginning before the All-Star suspension, pushing his record to 12–3 and lowering his ERA to 2.92, and in doing then, was tied for the most wins in the first half of the season. His win full tied a Nationals record set up in 2005 by Liván Hernández.[11]

On August 8, 2012, González striking his first career dwelling house run off Houston Astros pitcher Armando Galarraga and pitched his second career complete game.[12] On August 31, González pitched his first career shutout in a 10–0 rout of the St. Louis Cardinals.[thirteen]

When González and the Nationals beat the Milwaukee Brewers on September 22, information technology moved his tape to twenty–viii and he became the first pitcher in MLB to reach the 20-win marker on the flavour.[14] He finished the regular season with a major league all-time 21 wins, to become along with a 2.89 ERA and 207 strikeouts, winning the 2012 Warren Spahn Award as the all-time left-handed bullpen in the majors.[fifteen] González finished third in NL Cy Young voting in 2012.[xvi]

2013–2018 [edit]

González'due south name, along with those of other MLB players, was listed in connexion with a clinic idea to produce performance-enhancing drugs in a January 2013 report.[17] On Baronial v, González was cleared of any wrongdoing having to do with the Biogenesis scandal. He was not among the 12 players who were suspended.[18]

In 2013, González had a record of 11–8 with a 3.36 ERA.[19] In the starting time half of 2014, González went 6–v with a 3.56 ERA.[xx] On July 20, González recorded his i,000th career strikeout confronting the Milwaukee Brewers, including 511 strikeouts with the Oakland Athletics and 489 strikeouts with the Washington Nationals.[21] He ended the 2014 season with a 10–10 record and a three.57 ERA.[19]

In 2015, he was 11–8 with a 3.79 ERA and led the major leagues in allowing opposing batters the highest batting boilerplate on assurance in play (.341).[22] In 2016, he went 11–xi with a 4.57 ERA, his highest since 2009. His WAR of 0.9 was also his worst since 2009.[23] In 2017 he was xv–9 with a 2.96 ERA. He led the major leagues in stolen bases of third allowed, with seven.[24] To start 2018, he went seven–11 in 27 starts. He recorded 126 strikeouts while having a 4.57 ERA and a 1.five WAR.[23]

Milwaukee Brewers [edit]

On August 31, 2018, the Nationals traded González to the Milwaukee Brewers for KJ Harrison and Gilbert Lara.[25] He would make five starts for the Brewers, going iii–0, posting a 2.thirteen ERA. In a 2–one loss of Game iv of the NLCS against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Gonzalez suffered a loftier talocrural joint sprain, attempting to field a ball hit by Yasiel Puig, catastrophe his season and being replaced past Zach Davies on the Brewers roster.

New York Yankees [edit]

On March 19, 2019, González signed a minor league contract with the New York Yankees. The deal guaranteed $3 million if he made the big league roster and $300,000 for each game started.[26] [27] After pitching for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, González opted out of his contract and the Yankees released him on Apr 22.[28]

Return to the Brewers [edit]

González signed a major league contract with Milwaukee on April 26. He went 2–one with a 3.19 ERA to start the twelvemonth with Milwaukee before going on the disabled list with a expressionless arm on June 1. He was activated from the DL on July twenty.[29]

Chicago White Sox [edit]

On Dec twenty, 2019, González signed a ane-year, $5 meg contract with the Chicago White Sox, with an selection for 2021.[30] With the 2020 Chicago White Sox, González appeared in 12 games, compiling a ane–2 tape with iv.83 ERA and 34 strikeouts in 31+ ii⁄3 innings pitched.[31]

Miami Marlins [edit]

On March 3, 2021, González signed a minor league contract with the Miami Marlins system that included an invitation to spring training.[32] He appear his retirement on March 25, 2021, stating that donning the jersey of his hometown order was i of his "biggest dreams" but that his "body wasn't keeping upwards with his listen."[33]

Scouting [edit]

González threw four pitches: a 4-seam fastball at 92–95 mph, a two-seam fastball at 91–95, a curveball at 78–82, and a changeup at 85–87 that he used against right-handed hitters. His used his curveball oft when he was alee in the count, especially confronting left-handers.

González'due south pitches had higher up-average strike out charge per unit whiff rates, with the curveball leading at 36% and the changeup shut behind at 35%. His bend as well had an outstanding basis brawl/fly brawl ratio at almost 7:1.[34] Gio said of his curveball:

My curveball is a approving. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to learn, right on the side of the house, and it merely ended upwards working. I never asked what the tricks were, or anything like that. He made it elementary for me to use on my own form, and information technology works for me. I've never inverse my grip since the day my dad showed me how to throw it. He taught me how to try to get in look exactly like a fastball.[35]

González was a strikeout pitcher, with a rate of virtually i per inning over his career. He was fourth in strikeouts per nine innings pitched in the AL in 2011, and second in the NL for the 2012 flavour (equally of 17 Baronial 2012[update]).[23]

Personal life [edit]

Gio González is married to Berenice Lea Moures, with whom he has 2 children.

In 2012, González created the GIO (Giving Individuals Opportunities) foundation, a charity to aid medical patients in need of financial support.[36] He is also a comic book hobbyist.[37]

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External links [edit]

  • Career statistics and histrion information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gio_Gonz%C3%A1lez

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