Dominic Miroglio

Dominic Okun Miroglio

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 10", Weight 205 lb.

• School University of San Francisco, University of California, Los Angeles
• High School Bishop O'Dowd High School

• Born March 10, 1995 in Oakland, CA USA

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Biographical Information

Dominic Miroglio has played as high as AAA and has been on the Italian national team. He hit .256 as a high school sophomore, .375 as a junior and .421 with a .521 OBP as a senior. He also was the starting quarterback in football, throwing for over 6,000 yards and 70 touchdowns. His hometown Oakland A's took him in the 40th round of the 2013 amateur draft (two picks before Connor Brogdon) but he did not sign. He was 1 for 11 as a college freshman at UCLA then transferred to San Francisco and batted .340/.406/.447, finishing 6th in the West Coast Conference in RBI and 9th in average, while throwing out 39% of those who tried to steal. As a junior, he was 6 for 14 before a hand injury cut his season short. The Tampa Bay Rays still picked him in the 16th round of the 2016 amateur draft, one round before Wyatt Mills; he again did not sign. Returning as a redshirt junior, he gunned down 56% of base-runners, only made one error and produced at a .285/.326/.473 clip. The Arizona Diamondbacks made him their 20th-round pick of the 2017 amateur draft. The scout was Orsino Hill.

He hit .317/.384/.430 for the Missoula Osprey in his pro debut, throwing out 40%. In 2018, he played for the Visalia Rawhide (.327/.394/.469 in 76 G) and Jackson Generals (.231/.259/.308 in 21 G). He was named the California League All-Star catcher. With the Salt River Rafters, he was 5 for 27 with a walk, double and homer in the Arizona Fall League. He hit .233/.317/.329 in 47 games for Jackson in 2019, backing up Daulton Varsho. After the 2020 minor league season was wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic, he batted .247/.336/.429 with 11 homers in 87 games for the 2021 Amarillo Sod Poodles. He moved up to AAA in 2022, where he hit .257/.342/.481 with 10 homers in 63 games for the Reno Aces; he was their most-used of many options at catcher that year.

Backing up Brett Sullivan for Italy in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, he got into one game, playing versus Panama. Batting 8th, he popped out against Harold Araúz then laid down a sacrifice hit his next trip to the plate. He grounded out versus Humberto Mejía his last time up.