Henderson Alvarez

Henderson Alvarez

Toronto Blue Jays ā€“ No. 37
Pitcher
Born: June 13, 1990 (1990-06-13) (age 21)
Valencia, Venezuela
Bats: Right Throws: Right 
MLB debut
August 10, 2011 for the Toronto Blue Jays
Career statistics
(through 2011 Season)
Win-loss record     1-3
Earned run average     3.53
Strikeouts     40
Teams

Henderson Javier Alvarez (born April 18, 1990) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Baseball career

Minor league career

Alvarez made his professional baseball debut in 2007 with the DSL Blue Jays 1, going 1-2 with a 5.61 ERA. He signed with the Blue Jays as an undrafted free agent on August 17, 2008,[1] and subsequently moved to the United States, where he pitched for the GCL Blue Jays, going 1-4 with a 5.63 ERA and a strikeout to walk ratio of 5.67. He was promoted to the Lansing Lugnuts of the Single-A Midwest League for the 2009 season, where he was an All-Star with a 9-6 win-loss record and a 3.47 ERA. He played 2010 with the High-A Dunedin Blue Jays, where he was a Florida State League All-Star and was selected to the All-Star Futures Game, going 8-7 with a 4.33 ERA. He started 2011 back in Dunedin, but was promoted after two bad starts to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats, where he was an Eastern League All-Star and was again selected to the Futures Game, going 8-4 with a 2.86 ERA

Major League career

On August 9, 2011, Alvarez was called up to replace Wil Ledezma, who was outrighted to the Blue Jays Triple-A affiliate Las Vegas 51s. He took the rotation spot of Carlos Villanueva, and made his career debut on August 10 against the Oakland Athletics[2][3] pitching 5.2 innings and giving up 3 earned runs on 8 hits, with 4 strikeouts and 1 walk.[4]

On August 31, Alvarez recorded his first career win in a 13-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. He pitched 8 full innings, giving up just 3 hits, no walks and 5 strikeouts. He faced former Blue Jay starter Jo-Jo Reyes, who went only 2.2 innings and surrendered 8 hits and 7 earned runs in his first game against his former team. At 21 years and 135 days, Alvarez becomes the youngest Jays' pitcher to record a win since Kelvim Escobar in 1997, and the youngest starting pitcher to record the win for the Jays since Phil Huffman in 1979.[5]

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