Eliecer Navarro

Panamanian baseball player

Baseball player

Eliecer Navarro
Pitcher
Born: (1987-10-26) 26 October 1987 (age 36) David, Chiriquí, Panama
Bats: Left Throws: Left

Eliecer Navarro (born 26 October 1987 in David, Chiriquí, Panama) is a minor league baseball pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He pitched for Panama in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

Minor league career

Navarro began his professional career with the Dominican Summer Pirates, in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, in 2007. With them, he went 8–2 with a 2.83 ERA in 14 games (13 starts), striking out 85 batters in 70 innings of work. In 2008, he went 4–3 with a 1.42 ERA in 15 starts, striking out 108 batters in 76 innings.^[1] He went 4–2 with a 3.77 ERA in 10 games (three starts) for the GCL Pirates in 2009 and in 2010, he went 2–2 with a 3.12 ERA in 19 games (six starts) for the State College Spikes and West Virginia Power. The Pirates released Navarro in March 2014.^[2]

World Baseball Classic

In the 2009 World Baseball Classic, Navarro appeared in one game, pitching 11⁄3 innings of work. He allowed two hits, two runs (one of which was unearned), posting a 6.75 ERA.^[3]

References

^ "Eliecer Navarro Minor & Winter Leagues Statistics & History - Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com.
^ John Dreker. "Pirates Release Six Minor Leaguers, Including Two Big Bonus Cuban Players". piratesprospects.com.
^ "World Baseball Classic: Panama: Statistics". World Baseball Classic. Archived from the original on 9 December 2012.