Win–loss record 2–2 Role Baseball, born 1990 Earned run average 4.67 Height 1.93 m | Strikeouts 39 Weight 113 kg Name Enrique Burgos Salary 150,299 USD (2015) | |
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Enrique Burgos Arosemena (born November 23, 1990) is a Panamanian professional baseball pitcher in the Atlanta Braves organization.
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Early life
Enrique Burgos was born in Panama City, Panama. His father, Enrique Burgos, is a left-handed pitcher who played in the minors and majors over a period of 17 years. The younger Burgos preferred soccer to baseball, but took up the latter sport at age 14 and signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks as a non-drafted free agent on July 19, 2007 at the age of 16.
Career
Burgos was a starting pitcher during most of his seven-plus years in the minor leagues, where he demonstrated the ability to strike out batters but also had a high walk rate. His ERA during his first four seasons was 5.93. In 2012 the Diamondbacks moved him to the bullpen, where his ERA decreased to 2.35 in 2012 and 3.88 in 2013. Between 2013 and 2014, he cut his walk rate over 50 percent, from more than one walk per inning in Low-A South Bend to 4.3 walks per nine innings in High-A Visalia. He was added to the Diamondbacks 40-man roster on October 21, 2014.
He was promoted to the major leagues on April 29, 2015. That night, he retired all three batters that he faced in the ninth inning of a Diamondbacks 9–1 win over the Colorado Rockies.
Burgos was recalled from the Triple-A Reno Aces on July 2, 2016.
He was designated for assignment on May 15, 2017, to create room for Reymond Fuentes who had his contract purchased from AAA. On May 20, he was traded to the Atlanta Braves for cash considerations.. He was then designated for assignment by the Braves to make room for David Freitas