'William Juarez ' (born
April 22 1981 in
Manzanillo, Nicaragua) is a
Minor League Baseball pitcher prospect who plays for the
Los Angeles Dodgers Triple-A team, the
Las Vegas 51s.
Juarez was signed by the
Arizona Diamondbacks as a nondrafted free agent on
May 26 2000 and saw his first professional action on their
Dominican Summer League team as a 19 year-old in 2000. He was 4-5 with a 3.77 era in 11 starts for the DSL team. In 2002, he played with Arizona's rookie ball team, the
Missoula Osprey and in 2003 he was in the Single-A division with the
Yakima Bears. He spent 2004 with both the
South Bend Silver Hawks and the Double-A
El Paso Diablos .
He pitched for Nicaragua in the IBAF World Cup in
Havana, Cuba in
October 2003.
On Jan 11,2005 he was traded by Diamondbacks with
Danny Muegge,
Beltran Perez and
Dioner Navarro to the
Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for
Shawn Green.
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The Dodgers assigned him to Double-A the
Jacksonville Suns for 2005 and he has been pitching in the starting rotation for the
Las Vegas 51s since 2006.
References
1. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/J/William-Juarez.shtml
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