Gionny Fracchiolla

Gionny Tomasso Fracchiolla Rios also listed as Gianny

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 5' 7", Weight 156 lb.

• Born September 10, 1991 in Maracay, Aragua Venezuela

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Biographical Information

Gionny Fracchiolla has pitched in Italy, the Dominican Republic, Germany, San Marino and Venezuela. He has been on the Italian national team.

In 2011, he pitched for Collecchio in the Italian minors. He then signed with the Texas Rangers. He had a 4.05 ERA in six relief appearances for the 2012 DSL Rangers and improved to 2-0, 2.25 in 13 games in a return engagement the next year. He went 3-4 with a 3.88 ERA for the 2014 DSL Rangers 2, with 63 K in 62 2/3 IP.

Back in Europe for 2015, he signed with Germany's Buchbinder Legionäre. He went 8-0 with a 2.58 ERA and finished among the Bundesliga-2 south leaders in ERA (2nd, .35 behind teammate Mike Bolsenbroek), strikeouts (83, 7th), wins (tied Jan-Niclas Stöcklin and Eric Massingham for 4th), IP (76 2/3, tied Bolsenbroek for 7th), walks (53, tied Gary Owens for the most), K/IP (5th, between Bolsenbroek and Tyler Lockwood), opponent average (.209, 2nd to Michael Torrealba) and opponent OPS (9th, between Lukas Steinlein and Tim Stahlmann).

Pitching for Italy in the 2015 Premier 12, he made one appearance. He relieved Filippo Crepaldi in the 5th with a 8-1 deficit against the Netherlands, two on and one out. He struck out Wladimir Balentien but Curt Smith tagged him for a three-run homer. He walked Kalian Sams and allowed a Hainley Statia hit but got Dashenko Ricardo to hit into an inning-ending force. Yomel Rivera succeeded him.

The little lefty was 0-1 with a 9.31 ERA for San Marino in 2016 (13 BB, 15 K in 9 2/3 IP). In his homeland, he pitched 2/3 of a shutout inning as a true LOOGY (3 BF, 3 GP) for the Cardenales de Lara that winter. He returned to Germany for 2017, now with the Hamburg Stealers. He turned in a 6-3, 2.39 campaign. In the Bundesliga-1 north, he was 7th in ERA (between Louis Cohen and André Hughes), 2nd in strikeouts (119, 10 behind Dustin Ward), tied Hughes and Sascha Koch for second in wins, 5th in innings (75 1/3), second in walks (35), 5th in WHIP (1.21) and 4th in opponent OPS.

Fracchiolla fell to 2-4, 3.00 in 2018. In '19, he moved to the Dohren Wild Farmers and was 2-4 with a save and a 6.20 ERA. He was 8th in the Bundesliga-1 north with 53 K and 10th with 28 walks. He had another go in Italy in 2020 but was 0-5 with a 6.35 ERA for Macerata. After not pitching in the top league in either Italy or Germany in '21, he was 3-3 with two saves and a 3.07 ERA for Padova in the 2022 Serie A1, with 122 K in 82 innings in Italy's expanded circuit. He was 7th in strikeouts, between Anderson Martinez and Francesco Pomponi. He then returned to Dohren, now in the German minors.