Esmerling Vásquez

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

Teams

Arizona Diamondbacks (2009–2011)
Minnesota Twins (2012)
EDA Rhinos (2014) (CPBL)
Saitama Seibu Lions (2015-present) (NPB)

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. 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 and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)

Saitama Seibu Lions current roster

First squad	00 Daichi Mizuguchi 0 Shogo Kimura 1 Takumi Kuriyama 2 Yuji Kaneko 5 Yuji Onizaki 6 Naotaka Takehara 8 Naoto Watanabe 10 Tomoya Mori 11 Takayuki Kishi 12 Kuo Chun-lin 14 Tatsushi Masuda 16 Yusei Kikuchi 17 Kona Takahashi 20 Ryoma Nogami 25 Takanori Hoshi 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 28 Ryohei Fujiwara 29 Hirotaka Koishi 30 Yosuke Okamoto 32 Hideto Asamura 33 Hotaka Yamakawa 34 Yasuo Sano 35 Kazuhisa Makita 37 Masatoshi Okada 41 Makoto Aiuchi 42 Esmerling Vásquez 43 Tomomi Takahashi 44 Shuta Tonosaki 47 Andy Van Hekken 48 Shota Takekuma 51 Fumikazu Kimura 54 C. C. Lee 55 Shogo Akiyama 59 Kyohei Nagae 60 Takeya Nakamura 61 Shotaro Tashiro 62 Hitoto Komazuki 63 Isamu Sato 65 Shogo Saitoh 88 Ryo Sakata 99 Ernesto Mejía

Second squad	9 Yutaro Ohsaki 15 Tatsuya Oishi 19 Takuya Toyoda 21 Ken Togame 22 Atsushi Okamoto 23 Shogo Noda 26 Seiji Kawagoe 31 Toshihiro Iwao 36 Tadasuke Minamikawa 38 Yusuke Tamamura 39 Nien Ting Wu 40 Takayuki Yamaguchi 45 Keisuke Honda 46 Yuta Nakazaki 49 Tatsuyuki Uemoto 50 Kentaro Fukukura 52 Haruka Yamada 53 Aito Otaki 56 Kazuki Kaneko 57 Tsubasa Kokuba 58 Masato Kumashiro 64 Shota Nakata 66 Naoaki Matsumoto 67 Koki Fujita 68 Kazuki Miyata 71 Daisuke Togawa 78 Komei Fujisawa

First squad coaching	Manager: 90 Norio Tanabe Head and pitching coach: 86 Tetsuya Shiozaki Pitching coaches: 72 Yoshihiro Doi Batting coaches: 73 Hideki Hashigami, 76 Masahiro Abe, 80 Shigenobu Shima Fielding/Baserunning coaches: 70 Tomoaki Satoh, 74 Hiroshi Narahara Battery coach: 82 Masanori Taguchi Training coaches: 92 Shinobu Sakamoto, 96 Tatsuya Nakano

Second squad coaching	Manager: 83 Hisanori Yokota Pitching coaches: 89 Shinji Mori, 91 Eiji Kiyokawa Batting coaches: 75 Hiroyuki Takagi, 85 Katsuhiko Miyaji Fielding/Baserunning coaches: 87 Satoshi Kuroda, 77 Shogo Akada Battery coach: 84 Kosaku Akimoto Training coaches: 98 Takafumi Sato, 95 Haruki Kurokawa

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