Jon García

Jonathan García

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

• High School Luis Munoz Marin High School

• Born November 11, 1991 in Ponce Puerto Rico

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Biographical Information

Jon García peaked at AA then won Gold in the Central American and Caribbean Games.

He was picked by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 8th round of the 2009 amateur draft, one pick after Paul Goldschmidt. The signing scout was Manny Estrada. He had a solid pro debut with the AZL Dodgers, hitting .304/.362/.500 with 16 doubles, though he fielded only .919 in the outfield. He tied Jonathan Galvez for 4th in the Arizona League in doubles. With the Leones de Ponce in the Puerto Rican Winter League, he was 0 for 13. In 2010, he remained steady with the Ogden Raptors (.305/.365/.527, 19 2B, 10 HR, 45 R in 61 G, .918 FLD%). He tied Bobby Stone and Travis Witherspoon for 7th in the Pioneer League in homers, was 7th in doubles and was 6th in slugging (between Cody Hawn and Rafael Ortega). He was again hitless for Ponce, this time 0 for 9 with a walk, backing up Hiram Bocachica in RF.

In 2011, his defense improved significantly (.975) but his contact fell away; his batting line for the Great Lakes Loons was .228/.290/.420 with 28 doubles, 19 homers and 133 whiffs. He tied Jesus Aguilar for 7th in the Midwest League in dingers and tied Billy Hamilton for 6th in Ks. Among Dodgers farmhands, he was 7th in doubles (between Jake Lemmerman and Brian Cavazos-Galvez), 9th in home runs and second in strikeouts (one behind Kyle Russell). He was down to only 3 errors with the '12 Rancho Cucamonga Quakes while batting .233/.266/.386 with almost as many homers (12) as walks (15) while striking out 134 times. He was 9th in the California League in Ks, between Keon Broxton and George Springer and tied Blake Smith for 2nd in the Dodgers chain. He finally got his first Puerto Rican League hits, eking out a .143/.217/.214 line.

Jon showed good pop in 2013 with the Quakes (.287/.337/.574, 17 HR in 68 G) but not nearly as much with the Chattanooga Lookouts (.168/.217/.243, 1 HR in 56 G). He was still 4th in the Dodgers chain in that department, behind three MLB-bound players. He was also 3rd with 142 strikeouts, between Darnell Sweeney and Scott Schebler. He hit .220/.256/.366 for the 2013-14 Leones. He split 2014 again between the Quakes (.214/.239/.432 in 46 G) and the Lookouts (.071/.212/.143 in 9 G). Starting in right for the 2014-2015 Senadores de San Juan, he hit .264/.298/.448. He was 7th in the league in average, between Jesús Feliciano and A.J. Jimenez. After a slow start for 2015 with the Tulsa Drillers (.189/.262/.283 in 20 G), LA let him go after his third crack at AA. He was signed by the independent Windy City Thunderbolts and produced at a .268/.310/.479 clip in 39 games.

Starting in right for the Puerto Rican national team in the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games, he hit .173/.173/.207 with two runs and one RBI in seven games while handling 16 chances error-free. Puerto Rico won their third Gold ever in the Central American and Caribbean Games (first in 16 years) as well as a spot in the 2019 Pan American Games.