| Braxton Garrett | |||||||||||||||
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.jpg) Garrett with the Marlins in 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| Miami Marlins – No. 29 | |||||||||||||||
| Pitcher | |||||||||||||||
| Born: (1997-08-05)August 5, 1997 (age 28) Troy, Alabama, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Left Throws: Left | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| September 13, 2020, for the Miami Marlins | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics (through 2024 season) | |||||||||||||||
| Win–loss record | 16–19 | ||||||||||||||
| Earned run average | 4.03 | ||||||||||||||
| Strikeouts | 320 | ||||||||||||||
Stats atBaseball Reference  | |||||||||||||||
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Braxton Lee Garrett (born August 5, 1997) is an American professionalbaseballpitcher for theMiami Marlins ofMajor League Baseball (MLB). The Marlins selected him with the seventh overall selection of the2016 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2020.
Garrett attendedFoley High School inFoley, Alabama his freshman and sophomore years. Prior to his junior year he transferred toFlorence High School inFlorence, Alabama.[1] As a sophomore at Foley in 2014, he was 8–2 with a 1.23earned run average (ERA) with 108strikeouts in 57 innings. In July of that year he committed toVanderbilt University to playcollege baseball.[2] As a junior at Florence in 2015, Garrett was 7–1 with a 0.75 ERA with 141 strikeouts in66+2⁄3 innings.[3][4] In August after that season, he played in the Perfect Game All-American Classic atPetco Park.[5] Later that year, he played for the18U National Team that won theWorld Cup.[6]
Garrett was considered one of the top prospects for the2016 Major League Baseball draft.[7][8] He was selected seventh overall in the draft by the Miami Marlins.[9] He agreed to sign with the Marlins for a $4,145,900signing bonus.[10] He made his professional debut in 2017 with theGreensboro Grasshoppers of theSingle-ASouth Atlantic League,[11] where he posted a 1–0 record with a 2.93 ERA in four starts[12] before he underwentTommy John surgery in June, ending his season.[13]
MLB.com ranked Garrett as Miami's fifth best prospect going into the 2018 season.[14] However, he also missed all of that season, as he was recovering from the surgery he had undergone the previous year. Garrett returned in 2019, beginning the year with theJupiter Hammerheads of theHigh-AFlorida State League,[15] and also pitched in one game for theJacksonville Jumbo Shrimp of theDouble-ASouthern League. Over 21 starts between the two clubs, he went 6–7 with a 3.54 ERA.[16]
On September 13, 2020, the Marlins selected Garrett's contract and he made his major league debut that day in the second game of a doubleheader.[17] In two starts in his rookie campaign, he surrendered six runs (five earned) on eight hits and five walks with eight strikeouts in7+2⁄3 innings.
For the 2021 season, Garrett spent the majority of the season with Triple-A Jacksonville, making 17 starts and logging a 5–4 record and 3.89 ERA with 86 strikeouts in85+2⁄3 innings. In eight contests (seven starts) for the Marlins, he recorded a 5.03 ERA with 32 strikeouts in 34 innings pitched.[18] In 2022, Garrett spent time up and down between Miami and Triple-A Jacksonville. In 17 turns out of Miami's rotation, Garrett registered a 3–7 record and 3.58 ERA with 90 strikeouts in 88 innings pitched.[19]
Garrett began the 2023 season as along reliever but joined the Marlinsstarting rotation in April afterJohnny Cueto injured his right biceps. Garrett started 30 games for the Marlins, pitching to a 3.66 ERA in159+2⁄3 innings while striking out 156. He started Game 2 of the2023 National League Wild Card Series,[20] which the Marlins lost.
On May 24, 2024, Garrett threw a complete–game shutout against theArizona Diamondbacks. He completed the shutout in 95 pitches, a feat known as aMaddux.[21] He was placed on the injured list with a left forearm flexor strain on June 23,[22] and was transferred to the 60-day injured list on July 30.[23] Garrett did not return in 2024, and finished the year with a 2–2 record and 5.35 ERA with 34 strikeouts over 7 starts.
On January 8, 2025, it was announced that Garrett would miss the entirety of the 2025 season after undergoing a revision surgery on his leftulnar collateral ligament.[24]
