Gerardo García

Gerardo Geovanny García

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 185 lb.

• Born February 13, 1980 in Monterrey, Nuevo León Mexico

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Biographical Information

Pitcher Gerardo García played minor league baseball from 1998 to 2007. While most of his career took place in the Mexican League, he did spend a couple of season in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization, during which time he was selected to play for the World Team in the 2002 Futures Game.

He began his pro career in 1998 in the Arizona League, with AZL Mexico, a team made up of young Mexican players provided by teams from La Liga. He went 1-8, 4.86 in 15 games in his only season. He then presumably played in some development league in Mexico in 1999, because he next showed up in organized baseball in 2000 as a relief pitcher for the Tigres del Mexico. Aged just 20 in the AAA circuit, he was 2-2, 4.85. He returned in 2001 as a starting pitcher for the Tigres, going 7-7, 5.93 while pitching 107 2/3 innings.

Gerardo joined the Devil Rays' organization in 2002 and started off in AA with the Orlando Rays of the Southern League, where he was 2-1, 2.79 in 10 games. He was then promoted to the AAA Durham Bulls, but struggled to a record of 2-7, 6.50 in 15 starts. Still, he played in the prestigious Futures Game that season. In 2003, he was with the same two teams, but just for 10 games, with a combined mark of 2-2, 3.79. He was presumably felled by an injury at that point, as he then missed all of 2004. When he returned in 2005, he was rocked in 2 starts for the Montgomery Biscuits, giving up 13 runs in 8 2/3 innings, at which point he was released by Tampa Bay. He ended up back with his old team, which had by then moved to Puebla­ and were known as the Tigres de la Angelopolis. He was 2-0, 2.45 in 8 games. However, in 2006, he fell back to 1-1, 5.63 in 13 games as a reliever for the same team. Staying in Puebla in 2007, he was with the city's other team, the Pericos de Puebla, but he continued t struggle, going 3-3, 6.90 in 17 games as a swingman. There is no record of his pitching professionally after that.