Ángel Castro (baseball)
| Ángel Castro | |||
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| File:Angel M Castro.jpg | |||
| Oakland Athletics | |||
| Pitcher | |||
| Born: November 14, 1982 Pimentel, Dominican Republic |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 9, 2015, for the Oakland Athletics | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2015 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 0–1 | ||
| Earned run average | 2.25 | ||
| Strikeouts | 4 | ||
| Teams | |||
Ángel M. Castro (born November 14, 1982) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Oakland Athletics organization. He has previously pitched for the Athletics in Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.
Career
Castro attended Western Oklahoma State College in Altus, Oklahoma. The Detroit Tigers drafted Castro in the 13th round of the 2006 Major League Baseball draft. He played for the Tigers farm system from 2006 through 2008. In 2009 he was in the farm systems of the Tampa Bay Rays and Philadelphia Phillies.
In 2010 he played with the Lincoln Saltdogs in the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball and the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League. In 2011 he remained in Mexico with the Saraperos de Saltillo.
In 2012, he pitched for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball and for the Albuquerque Isotopes in the Los Angeles Dodgers farm system in 2013.
On December 11, 2013, Castro signed a one-year deal with the St. Louis Cardinals.[1]
Castro played for the Dominican Republic national baseball team in the 2011 Baseball World Cup[2] and the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
On August 8, 2014, Castro was traded to the Oakland Athletics organization for cash considerations. He began the 2015 season with the Triple-A Nashville Sounds before having his contract purchased by the Athletics on May 8. He would be optioned down to Nashville on June 2.[3] He was designated for assignment on September 1 and elected to become a free agent after the season. He was later signed to a minor league contract with Oakland.
References
- ↑ Twitter / Cardinals: #STLCards sign free-agent right-handed pitcher Angel Castro to a one-year contract for the upcoming 2014 season.
- ↑ http://www.woscbaseball.com/teams/default.asp?u=WESTERNBASEBALL&t=c&s=baseball&p=newsstory&newsID=34069
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using baseballstats with unknown parameters
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Japan
- People from Santiago Province (Dominican Republic)
- Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks players
- Oakland Athletics players
- West Michigan Whitecaps players
- Lakeland Flying Tigers players
- Erie SeaWolves players
- Reading Phillies players
- Charlotte Stone Crabs players
- Montgomery Biscuits players
- Navegantes del Magallanes players
- Lincoln Saltdogs players
- Dorados de Chihuahua players
- Saraperos de Saltillo players
- Albuquerque Isotopes players
- Memphis Redbirds players
- 2013 World Baseball Classic players
- Águilas Cibaeñas players
- Azucareros del Este players
- Sacramento River Cats players
- Tomateros de Culiacán players
- Toros del Este players
- Dominican Summer League Tigers players
- Nashville Sounds players
- Western Oklahoma State Pioneers baseball players
