Luis Severino

Luis Severino

Severino with the New York Yankees
New York Yankees – No. 40
Starting pitcher
Born: (1994-02-20) February 20, 1994
Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic
Bats: Right Throws: Right
MLB debut
August 5, 2015, for the New York Yankees
MLB statistics
(through May 4, 2016)
Win–loss record 5–8
Earned run average 3.89
Strikeouts 72
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]

Minor league career

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]

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.

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]

Major league career

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]

Severino began the 2016 season in the Yankees starting rotation.[17]

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.[18] He has a daughter, Abigail, who was born in July 2015.[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Report: Severino Called Yankees’ Best Pitching Prospect In A Decade". CBS New York. July 18, 2014. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Sherman, Joel (July 17, 2014). "The pitching prospect hailed as Yankees’ best in a decade". New York Post. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Marchand, Andrew (February 5, 2014). "Severino, Yanks' next international star?". ESPN New York. ESPN.com. Retrieved September 12, 2014..
  4. 1 2 Norris, Josh (December 9, 2013). "2014 New York Yankees Top 10 Prospects". Baseball America. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
  5. ↑ Lennon, David (July 14, 2014). "Yankees pitching prospect Luis Severino earns high praise at Futures Game". Newsday. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Luis Severino Minor League Statistics & History - Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  7. 1 2 Kuty, Brendan (August 1, 2015). "Why Yankees' top prospect Luis Severino is better than ever". NJ.com. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  8. ↑ King III, George A. (August 2, 2015). "Yanks look to phenom after whiffing on Price, Cueto, Hamels". New York Post. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  9. ↑ Heyman, Jon (July 26, 2015). "Yanks won't trade Severino or Judge for Hamels; Texas, Dodgers lead". CBS Sports. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  10. ↑ Matthews, Wallace (July 31, 2015). "Yankees hope to find impact from RHP Luis Severino after eschewing trade". ESPN.com. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  11. ↑ Hatch, Ryan (July 30, 2015). "How close is Luis Severino to joining the Yankees?". NJ.com. NJ Advance Media. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  12. ↑ King III, George A. (August 1, 2015). "Yankees to call up, let loose pitching phenom Severino". New York Post. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  13. ↑ King III, George A. (August 2, 2015). "Luis Severino gets Yanks debut date — on enormous stage". New York Post. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  14. ↑ Brooks, Larry (August 6, 2015). "Luis Severino already an exception to the Yankees’ norm". New York Post. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
  15. ↑ Madden, Bill (August 6, 2015). "Luis Severino lives up to hype in Yankee debut, looks ready for impact". New York Daily News. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  16. ↑ "MLB: Luis Severino stingy in debut, but Yankees lose, 2-1, to Red Sox". Daily Freeman. Associated Press. August 6, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  17. ↑ Diamond (May 2, 2016). "Luis Severino, Once Yankees’ Pitching Savior, On Verge of Demotion". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Novato Luis Severino ya se ve lanzando con los Yankees". 7dias.com.do (in Spanish). January 11, 2015. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
  19. ↑ Collier, Jamal (July 25, 2015). "Yanks prospect Severino handling Triple-A". MLB.com. Retrieved August 4, 2015.

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