William Juarez
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William Juarez (born April 22, 1981 in Manzanillo, Nicaragua) is a Minor League Baseball pitcher prospect who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers Triple-A team, the Las Vegas 51s.
Juarez was signed by the Arizona Diamondbacks as a nondrafted free agent on May 26, 2000 and saw his first professional action on their Dominican Summer League team as a 19 year-old in 2000. He was 4-5 with a 3.77 era in 11 starts for the DSL team. In 2002, he played with Arizona's rookie ball team, the Missoula Osprey and in 2003 he was in the Single-A division with the Yakima Bears. He spent 2004 with both the South Bend Silver Hawks and the Double-A El Paso Diablos .
He pitched for Nicaragua in the IBAF World Cup in Havana, Cuba in October 2003.
On Jan 11,2005 he was traded by Diamondbacks with Danny Muegge, Beltran Perez and Dioner Navarro to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for Shawn Green. [1]
The Dodgers assigned him to Double-A the Jacksonville Suns for 2005 and he has been pitching in the starting rotation for the Las Vegas 51s since 2006.
