Griffin Alexander Canning ( Eng. Griffin Alexander Canning , May 11, 1996 , Mission Viejo , California ) is an American baseball player , a pitcher of the Los Angeles Angels Major League Baseball club.
| Griffin Canning | |
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| “ Los Angeles Angels ” - №47 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born: May 11, 1996 (23 years) Mission Viejo , California , USA | |
| Smashes: right | Rolls: right |
| Professional debut | |
| April 30, 2019 for Los Angeles Angels | |
| Custom statistics (as of June 20, 2019) | |
| Victory / Defeat | 2-3 |
| ERA | 3.93 |
| Strikeouts | 54 |
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Biography
Early years
Griffin was born May 11, 1996 in Mission Viejo in the family of Kevin and Julie Canning. He has an older brother, Spencer. In 2014, he graduated from the Santa Margarita Catholic School, and for three years played for the school baseball team. During his studies, Canning was invited to the United States national team under the age of 18. In the 2014 Major League Baseball draft, he was selected by the Colorado Rockies in the thirty-eighth round, but refused to sign a contract and entered the University of California , studied political science [1] .
In the summer of 2014, Canning played in five games for the Wenatchee Apple Sox in the West Coast League. In 2015, he began playing for UKLA Bruins in the NCAA Championship . Griffin played in fifteen games, eleven of which started as a starting pitcher. He scored seven wins with one loss with a transmissibility of 2.97. In the 2016 season, he became the team leader in the number of games in the starting lineup and fourth in the Pac-12 conference in terms of the number of strikeouts [1] .
In the last year of playing for the Bruins, he played seventeen games with a starting pitcher, becoming one of the ten NCAA leaders on this indicator. Canning scored seven wins with four losses with a transmittance of 2.34. He became the sixth pitcher in the history of the university, making more than three hundred strikeouts in his career. At the end of the season, Griffin was among the contenders for the Golden Spikes Award, awarded to the best amateur non-professional baseball player. In the summer, he was selected in the second round of the draft by the Los Angeles Angels [1] .
Professional career
After signing the contract, the Engels coaching staff decided not to use Griffin in the competition and sent him to the training center in Arizona. In December, he began throwing training to prepare for the 2018 season [2] . In the course of the professional championship debut, Canning advanced in the Los Angeles farm club system to the level of the AAA League. His transmittance was 3.65, he made one hundred and twenty-five strikeouts for a total of forty-four wakes [3] .
On April 30, 2019, Griffin made his debut for Engels in the Major League Baseball [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Griffin Canning (English) . uclabruins.com . UCLA Athletics. The appeal date is June 20, 2019.
- ↑ Page, Vincent. What can LA Angels Expect in Griffin Canning's 1st Year? (eng.) . halohangout.com . FanSided (23 September 2017). The appeal date is June 20, 2019.
- ↑ Falla, Ryan. LA Angels Top 25 Prospects: # 2 Griffin Canning (Eng.) . halohangout.com . FanSided (12 November 2018). The appeal date is June 20, 2019.
- ↑ Bollinger, Rhett. Canning Impresses Angels in Big League Debut (English) . mlb.com . MLB Advanced Media (1 May 2019). The appeal date is June 20, 2019.