Dillon Sean Maples ( eng. Dillon Sean Maples , May 9, 1992 , West End) - American baseball player , pitcher of the Major League Baseball Club Chicago Cubs .
| Dillon Maples | |
|---|---|
| Chicago Cubs - No. 36 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born: May 9, 1992 (27 years old) West End, North Carolina , USA | |
| Beats: right | Throws: Right |
| Professional debut | |
| September 3, 2017 for the Chicago Cubs | |
| Custom statistics (as of March 12, 2019) | |
| Victory / Defeat | 1-0 |
| ERA | 10.97 |
| Strikeouts | 20 |
| Teams | |
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Career
Dillon Maples graduated from Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines , North Carolina , in 2011. Immediately after that, he was selected by the Chicago Cubs Draft Club in the fourteenth round. At that time, Maples was rated as a player of the first round level, but was chosen so late because of his previously announced intention to enter the University of North Carolina instead of starting a professional career [1] .
The initial phase of his career at Dillon was unsuccessful. He received several injuries, experienced problems with ball control, felt distrust on the part of the coaches. In 2016, he planned to end his sports career, but his father dissuaded him from such a decision. The 2017 season was a turning point. Maples won sixty-three innings with a transmittance of 2.27 and rose in the Cubs farm system to the level of the AAA League. He began to feel more confident on the pitcher hill and expanded his arsenal of innings, adding a slider and a ball to the fastball at a speed of 94-98 mph. In September, Dillon was first drafted into the main team of Chicago and made his debut in Major League Baseball, having won 3.1 inning, making seven strikeouts and allowing four walks [1] .
In 2018, Maples played for the Cubs in nine games, his transmittance was 11.81. He spent most of the season with Iowa , demonstrating the efficiency of the pitch (third in the league by the percentage of strikeouts made) combined with ball control problems (third from the end by the percentage of allowed lessons). Dillon did not manage to gain the confidence of the head coach of “Chicago” Joe Maddon , but throughout the championship he was a player of the expanded team [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Sickels, John. Chicago Cubs rookie Dillon Maples: From forgotten prospect to the majors in one year . minorleagueball.com . Vox Media (September 22, 2017). Date of treatment March 13, 2019. Archived January 7, 2018.
- ↑ Ernst, Michael. End of Season Prospect Review: Dillon Maples chicagonow.com . Chicago Tribune (November 8, 2018). Date of treatment March 13, 2019. Archived November 17, 2018.