Frank Batista
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Born: April 26, 1989 Santiago, Santiago, Dominican Republic | |||
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Frank Batista (born April 26, 1989) is a professional baseball pitcher in the Chicago Cubs organization. He is currently with the Iowa Cubs. In his seven-year minor league career, he has been a Mid-Season All-Star three times, an MiLB.com Organization All-Star twice and a Post-Season All-Star once.[1]
The 5' 10", 170 pound pitcher was born in Santiago, Santiago, Dominican Republic. He was signed as a non-drafted free agent on January 18, 2009 by scouts Jose Serra and Jose Estevez. With the Dominican Summer League Cubs 1 in 2009, he was 4-2 with 63 strikeouts and a 3.55 ERA in 58.1 innings. He was 2-5 with a 4.46 mark for the Peoria Chiefs in 2010. Batista posted a 2.36 ERA and saved 26 games for the Daytona Cubs in 2011, and the next year, he had 24 saves and a 2.69 ERA in 49 matches between the Tennessee Smokies and Triple-A Iowa Cubs. He was a Mid-Season All-Star, Post-Season All-Star and MiLB.com Organization All-Star in 2011; he made the Mid-Season and MiLB.com Organization squads in 2012. In 2013, he had 19 saves and a 2.60 ERA in 48 games for Tennessee. With the Smokies and Iowa Cubs in 2014, he was 4-2 with 11 saves and a 1.97 ERA in 40 games; he also pitched for the Toros de Tijuana of the Mexican League that year, posting a 2.45 mark in 14 games. He returned to the starting rotation in 2015, going 8-7 with a 2.90 mark in 27 games (19 starts) between Tennessee and Iowa.[2] He was a Mid-Season All-Star in 2015.[3]
He has pitched for the major league club each spring training since 2012.[4]