Luis Severino

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Luis Severino
Luis Severino on August 5, 2015 (2).jpg
Severino with the New York Yankees
New York Yankees – No. 40
Starting pitcher
Born: (1994-02-20) February 20, 1994 (age 30)
Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic
Bats: Right Throws: Right
MLB debut
August 5, 2015, for the New York Yankees
MLB statistics
(through May 19, 2016)
Win–loss record 5–9
Earned run average 4.53
Strikeouts 83
WHIP 1.33
Teams

Luis Severino (born February 20, 1994) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is considered the Yankees' top prospect by numerous scouts.[1]

Career

Minor Leagues

Severino signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent in 2012, agreeing on a $225,000 signing bonus.[2] At the time, he could throw his fastball at 91 miles per hour (146 km/h).[3] He made his professional debut for the Dominican Summer League (DSL) Yankees 1 that year. He started 14 games, pitching to a 4–2 win-loss record with a 1.68 earned run average (ERA) and 45 strikeouts in ​64 1⁄3 innings. He started 2013 with the DSL Yankees 1 and was promoted to the Charleston RiverDogs of the Class A South Atlantic League during the season. He finished 4–2 with a 2.45 ERA, 53 strikeouts over 44 innings in 10 games (eight starts).[4] His fastball velocity reached 97 miles per hour (156 km/h) at Charleston.[3]

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Severino pitching for the Trenton Thunder in 2014

Prior to the 2014 season, Baseball America ranked him as the Yankees ninth best prospect.[4] Severino started the season with Charleston before being promoted to the Tampa Yankees of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League. After his promotion to Tampa, he was selected to appear in the 2014 All-Star Futures Game in July.[5] After the Futures Game, he was again promoted, to the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League.[2] Combined between the three teams, Severino went 6–5 win-loss record with a 2.46 ERA, 127 strikeouts, and 27 walks in 24 games (all starts) and 113 innings pitched.[6] Before the start of the 2015 season, Severino was ranked the best prospect in the Yankees farm system and the 23rd best out of all minor league players.[by whom?]

Severino began the 2015 season with Trenton, where he had a 2–2 win-loss record with a 3.32 ERA and 48 strikeouts in 38 innings pitched across eight games started. He received a promotion to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders of the Class AAA International League, where he worked with RailRiders' pitching coach Scott Aldred to improve his pitching delivery. Severino pitched to a 7–0 win-loss record and a 1.91 ERA in 11 games started for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre through the end of July.[7] With the Yankees in the Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason race, the Yankees made Severino unavailable in trade discussions for pitchers David Price, Cole Hamels, and Johnny Cueto at the MLB trade deadline of July 31.[8][9][10]

New York Yankees

2015

With a late-July injury to Michael Pineda,[11] and the Yankees not acquiring a starting pitcher before the trade deadline, Brian Cashman, the general manager of the Yankees, announced that Severino's next start would come in the major leagues against the Boston Red Sox, the primary rival of the Yankees, at Yankee Stadium.[12] Though Severino set a career-high with 113 innings pitched in the 2014 season, and teams tend to slowly build their pitchers up year to year, Cashman said that Severino will not be limited in how many innings he throws over the remainder of the 2015 season, in part because they limited his innings earlier in the season.[7]

Yankees' manager Joe Girardi set Severino's major league debut for August 5.[13] Severino pitched five innings in his debut, allowing two hits, two runs (one earned), with seven strikeouts and no walks, while becoming the youngest starting pitcher of the 2015 MLB season.[14] Also, he became the first AL pitcher in MLB history to strike out seven hitters while walking none and allowing no more than two hits in their major league debut.[15][16]

2016

Severino began the 2016 season in the Yankees starting rotation.[17] In a game against the Chicago White Sox on May 13, 2016, Severino left the game with an apparent injury after giving up 7 runs in 2.2 innings. The next day, he was placed on the 15-day disabled list due to right triceps inflammation.[18] On May 30, 2016, he was activated from the disabled list, and optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre.

Personal life

Severino is from Sabana de la Mar, in the Hato Mayor province of the Dominican Republic. He grew up a fan of the Yankees, particularly fellow Dominican Robinson Canó.[19] He has a daughter, Abigail, who was born in July 2015.[20]

References

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