Pablo López (baseball)

Who they were

Personal life López graduated first in his high school class with a grade-point average of 19.8 on a scale of 1 to 20. After he aced a standardized test, he was accepted to medical school in Venezuela at 16 years old. Both of his parents were doctors, but he chose baseball instead, stating, "The body, as you grow older, gets weaker. The mind just gets stronger. Baseball is a one-time opportunity. That was my thought process. I could always go back to school." While in the Seattle Mariners farm system,

Pablo López, Venezuelan baseball player

Early life

Early life López was raised in Venezuela. [ 1 ] Both his parents were doctors. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His mother died in a car crash when he was 11 years old. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] López graduated high school at age 16, where he became fluent in English, Italian and Portuguese and was then accepted into medical school. [ 4 ] Around the same time, he received a contract offer from the Seattle Mariners . He chose to pursue baseball instead of a medical career,

Path and career

Career Seattle Mariners López signed with the Seattle Mariners as an international free agent in July 2012 for $280,000. [ 1 ] He made his professional debut in 2013 with the VSL Mariners and spent the whole season there, going 7–1 with a 2.57 ERA in 12 starts. He missed all of 2014 after undergoing Tommy John surgery . [ 2 ] He returned in 2015 with the AZL Mariners , going 2–1 with a 3.13 ERA in 37 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings pitched. He spent 2016 with the Clinton LumberKings ,

Why this date

Pablo López (baseball) appears on our March 7 calendar for 1996 as a birth entry.