Jairo Heredia

Jairo Heredia

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 190 lb.

• Born October 8, 1989 in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional D.R.

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Biographical Information

Jairo Heredia peaked at AAA and has been on the Dominican national team.

Heredia debuted with the GCL Yankees in 2007, going 2-2 with a 2.72 ERA and 52 K in 46 1/3 IP. He tied Liam Hendriks and Dan Berlind for 7th in the Gulf Coast League in whiffs. For the 2008 Charleston RiverDogs, he went 6-7 with a 3.25 ERA. Had he qualified, he would have been 7th in the South Atlantic League in ERA (he was about 9 innings shy of qualifying). He split 2009 between the Tampa Yankees (2-2, 6.91 in 4 G), Charleston (1-1, 2.37 in 4 G) and GCL Yankees (2 R, 1 ER in 5 IP).

In 2010, he was with Tampa (0-6, 6.93 in 6 G) and Charleston (4-2, 3.45 in 20 G). He battled arm and kidney problems in 2011 but did well with Tampa (8-2, 3.29 in 13 G). He missed all of 2012 as well. Returning in 2013, he appeared for Tampa (3-1, 3.22 in 7 G), the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (2 R in 4 IP) and Staten Island Yankees (1-1, 3.45 in 6 G).

Heredia split 2014 between Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (1-0, 7.53 in 5 G) and the Trenton Thunder (4-1, 3.53 in 10 G), striking out 93 in 85 2/3 innings. He also pitched for the Dominicans in the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games, going 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA (losing to the Nicaraguan national team). He was signed by the Atlanta Braves but they released him before he appeared. He was picked up next by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He split the summer between the AZL Dodgers (0 R in 9 IP) and Tulsa Drillers (1-3, 3.22 in 8 G).