Esmerling Vásquez

Vásquez with the Arizona Diamondbacks

Pitcher

Born: November 7, 1983 (age 33)
Tenares, Dominican Republic

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

Professional debut

MLB: April 26, 2009, for the Arizona Diamondbacks

NPB: March 29, 2015, for the Saitama Seibu Lions

MLB statistics

5–12

4.86

134

1.52

NPB statistics
(through 2016)

Win-loss record

3-1

Earned run average

4.24

Strikeouts

WHIP

1.65

Teams

Esmerling Vásquez (born November 7, 1983) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher.

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

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.

On June 23, 2013, the Twins released Vásquez.

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