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Dicky Gonzalez 
Yomiuri Giants — No. 49 Starting pitcher Born: December 21, 1978
Bayamon, Puerto RicoBats: Right Throws: Right MLB debut May 1, 2001 for the New York Mets Career statistics
(through 2008 season)Win-Loss 3-2 Earned run average 5.02 Strikeouts 38 Teams - New York Mets (2001)
- Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2004)
- Yakult Swallows
Tokyo Yakult Swallows (2004–2008) (NPB) - Yomiuri Giants (2009–present) (NPB)
Career highlights and awards - Japan Series champion (2009)
Dicky Angel Gonzalez (born December 21, 1978 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico) is a Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher with the Yomiuri Giants.
Biography
Gonzalez was drafted by the New York Mets in the 16th round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft. He played part of the 2001 season for the Mets. Prior to the 2002 season, he was traded with Bruce Chen, Luis Figueroa, and a player to be named later (Saul Rivera) to the Montreal Expos for Phil Seibel, Scott Strickland and Matt Watson. Prior to the 2003 season, he was selected off waivers by the Boston Red Sox.
Gonzalez pitched for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization in 2004, pitching for the Devil Rays briefly. He was released on June 7, 2004. He joined the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and their farm team in 2004. He missed all of 2007 with an elbow injury.
He played in the 2006 World Baseball Classic for Puerto Rico.
After the 2008 season with the Swallows which saw him make only eight starts (1-5, 4.30), he was released. The Giants signed Gonzalez to a one-year, 30 million yen contract in the offseason. Gonzalez ended up having a career year in 2009, as he set career highs pretty much across the board. In 23 starts, he finished with 15 wins against two losses in 162 innings pitched, recorded a 2.11 ERA, and had two complete games. He started two games in the 2009 Japan Series against the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, winning one and receiving a no-decision in the other.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Yomiuri Giants current roster First squad 00 Takayuki Terauchi | 5 Alex Ramírez | 6 Hayato Sakamoto | 7 Hisayoshi Chono | 8 Yoshitomo Tani | 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei | 10 Shinnosuke Abe | 11 Yuya Kubo | 12 Takahiro Suzuki | 15 Hirokazu Sawamura | 17 Shun Tono | 22 Daisuke Ochi | 24 Yoshinobu Takahashi | 25 Josh Fields | 26 Tetsuya Utsumi | 28 Norihito Kaneto | 35 Kentaro Nishimura | 36 Micheal Nakamura | 41 Jonathan Albaladejo | 43 Kazunari Tsuruoka | 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi | 48 Kenji Yano | 50 Ryuichi Kajimae | 51 Shigeyuki Furuki | 53 Kazunari Sanematsu | 54 Daisuke Fujimura | 60 Junpei Ono | 65 Itaru Hashimoto |
Second squad 0 Saburo Ohmura | 2 Michihiro Ogasawara | 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei | 13 Yasunari Takagi | 23 Ryota Wakiya | 27 Yuya Ichikawa | 29 Seth Greisinger | 30 Ryosuke Miyaguni | 31 Shinji Takahashi | 32 Tetsuya Matsumoto | 33 Rusty Ryal | 37 Hideki Sunaga | 38 Hideki Asai | 39 Levi Romero | 40 Ken Katoh | 42 Carlos Torres | 44 Toshimasa Konta | 45 Takahiko Nomaguchi | 46 Kyohei Tsuchimoto | 49 Dicky Gonzalez | 52 Hidetoshi Tsuburaya | 55 Taishi Ohta | 56 Hiroki Nakazawa | 57 Yuki Furukawa | 59 Satoshi Fukuda | 61 Daisuke Nakai | 62 Takahisa Ueno | 63 Atsushi Nakazato | 64 Masato Kiyashiki | 66 Daijiro Tanaka | 67 Keisuke Saito | 68 Taichi Tanaka | 69 Tomoya Inzen | 93 Shoki Kasahara | 94 Yuki Koyama | 95 Masumi Hoshino | 96 Lin Yi-Hao | 97 Huang Chih-Lung | 98 Takanobu Tsujiuchi | 99 Syugo Fujii
Coaching Manager: 88 Tatsunori Hara | Second squad manager: 78 Masahiro Kawai
Puerto Rico 2006 World Baseball Classic roster 4 Yadier Molina | 5 Eduardo Pérez | 6 Rubén Gotay | 7 Iván Rodríguez | 8 Javy López | 9 Federico Baez | 10 José Valentín | 12 Alex Cintrón | 13 Alex Cora | 15 Carlos Beltrán | 17 Javier Valentín | 19 Alex Ríos | 22 José Cruz, Jr. | 23 Javier Vázquez | 24 Ricky Ledée | 25 Carlos Delgado | 29 Juan Padilla | 32 Luis Matos | 33 J. C. Romero | 38 Joel Piñeiro | 40 José Santiago | 43 Dicky Gonzalez | 45 Josue Matos | 48 Pedro Feliciano | 50 Kiko Calero | 51 Bernie Williams | 52 Orlando Roman | 55 Iván Maldonado | 56 Fernando Cabrera | 57 Chris Rojas | 58 Willie Collazo
Manager José OquendoCategories:- 1978 births
- Living people
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico
- Tampa Bay Devil Rays players
- New York Mets players
- Puerto Rican expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Tokyo Yakult Swallows players
- Yakult Swallows players
- Yomiuri Giants players
- St. Lucie Mets players
- Norfolk Tides players
- Ottawa Lynx players
- Pawtucket Red Sox players
- Durham Bulls players
- 2006 World Baseball Classic players
- Puerto Rican baseball biography stubs
- Baseball pitcher stubs
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