Mychal Givens

Givens with the Baltimore Orioles

Baltimore Orioles – No. 60

Pitcher

Born: May 13, 1990 (age 26)
Tampa, Florida

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

MLB debut

June 24, 2015, for the Baltimore Orioles

MLB statistics
(through 2016 season)

10–2

2.75

134

Teams

Mychal Antonio Givens (born May 13, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2015.

Givens attended Henry B. Plant High School in Tampa, Florida, where he played for the school's baseball team as a pitcher and an infielder. In 2007, he was selected to play for the United States 18-and-under national baseball team. In his junior and senior years, he was named All-State. As a senior, he had an 8–4 win–loss record and a 1.71 earned run average (ERA) with 113 strikeouts in 78 innings as a pitcher, and a .374 batting average with four home runs and 31 runs batted in as a hitter.

The Baltimore Orioles selected Givens in the second round, with the 54th overall selection, of the 2009 MLB draft. He signed with the Orioles, receiving a reported $800,000 signing bonus rather than enrolling at Oklahoma State University. The Orioles began to develop Givens as a shortstop. Playing for the Delmarva Shorebirds of the Class A South Atlantic League in 2010, he was batting .222 when he sprained his thumb. He required surgery to correct the injury.