Ángel Padrón

Ángel Ernesto Padrón

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 5' 11", Weight 175 lb.

• Born September 16, 1997 in San Cristobal, Tachira Venezuela

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Biographical Information

In the 2024 Caribbean Series Ángel Padrón became the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the tournament since Tommy Fine had done so 1952.

He was originally signed by the Boston Red Sox on July 18, 2014 as an international amateur free agent out of Venezuela (the scouts were Rolando Pino and Wilder Lobo), thus starting an association with the team that would last until the end of the 2019 season. He first pitched professionally for the DSL Red Sox 2 in 2015, but only moved up to the Greenville Drive of the Class A South Atlantic League in his five season in the Sox system. He was a reliever who made the occasional start with his best season coming in 2018 when he was 6-7, 4.51 in 29 games, including 9 starts, for Greenville. He was released the following November after repeating the level.

After sitting out the 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he joined the Tigres de Aragua of the Venezuelan League for the 2020-21 winter league season, and pitched exclusively in the winter until 2023, when he went 3-4, 5.16 in 12 starts for the Guerreros de Oaxaca in the Mexican League. He had never really risen above the journeyman level at that point. The following winter, he started off with Aragua then joined the Tiburones de La Guaira after a mid-season trade, and made it to the Caribbean Series when La Guaira won its first Venezuelan League title in 38 years. In that year's Caribbean Series, on February 7th, he pitched a complete game no-hitter in defeating Gigantes de Rivas, representing Nicaragua, 9-0. He struck out four batters and issued one walk in the 8th inning, needing just 88 pitches. The game was played in Miami, FL and he was the first Latino pitcher to accomplish the feat, since Fine, while pitching for a Cuban team, was an American.

Further reading

• Manny Randhawa: "Venezuela's Ángel Padrón throws first Caribbean Series no-no since 1952", mlb.com, February 8, 2024. [1]