Emmanuel Clase is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians from the Dominican Republic. In 2019, he made his MLB debut with the Texas Rangers.
Clase signed a $125,000 international free agency contract with the San Diego Padres on February 11, 2015. In 2015, he was 2–1 with a 1.99 ERA in 54 innings for the DSL Padres.
He went 2–0 with a 4.01 ERA in 24+23 innings for the Arizona League Padres in 2016. In 2017, he pitched for the AZL Padres twice, going 2–4 with a 5.30 ERA in 35+23 innings, and once for the Class A Short Season Northwest League’s Tri-City Dust Devils, surrendering 5 runs in 3+13 innings.
Clase was traded to the Texas Rangers as the player to be named later in an earlier trade for Brett Nicholas on May 7, 2018.
Clase was assigned to the Spokane Indians of the Class A Short Season Northwest League, where he went 1–1 in 28+13 innings with a 0.64 ERA, 27 strikeouts, and 12 saves.
Clase began the 2019 season with the Down East Wood Ducks of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League.
He pitched for them in six games, going 2–0 with a 0.00 ERA, one save, and 11 strikeouts in seven innings.
On April 23, he was promoted to the Double-A Texas League’s Frisco RoughRiders, where he went 12–2 with a 3.35 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 37+23 innings.
How Old Is Emmanuel Clase?
Enmanuel Case is 24 years old. He was born on March 18, 1998.