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José Mijares

Minnesota Twins — No. 50
Pitcher
Born: October 29, 1984 (1984-10-29) (age 25) Caracas, Venezuela
Bats: Left	Throws: Left
MLB debut
September 13, 2008 for the Minnesota Twins
Career statistics (through 2009 season)
Win-Loss	2-3
Earned run average	2.12
Strikeouts	60
Teams
Minnesota Twins (2008-present)

José Manuel Mijares (born October 29, 1984 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a left-handed major league pitcher with the Minnesota Twins. He is six feet tall, and weighs 230 lbs.

Mijares signed with the Twins as a free agent on March 2, 2002 and bounced around every level of the Twins' farm system-- having risen as high as the Triple-A Rochester Red Wings in 2007. He was awarded the Gulf Coast League Rolaids Relief Man Award in 2004 and elected to be an All-Star in the Eastern League in 2007.

On January 24, 2008, he was re-signed to a one-year deal, and on March 9, 2008, he was cut from spring training and optioned to the Double-A New Britain Rock Cats of the Eastern League. He also spent part of the 2008 season with the Gulf Coast League Twins and Fort Myers Miracle before ended the minor league season again assigned to the Rock Cats.^[1]

In September 2008, Mijares received a call up to the Minnesota Twins, and made his major league debut on September 13 against the Baltimore Orioles. The Twins won that game 12-6. Mijares wound up becoming the Twins main set-up man for the remainder of the season.

Following a rocky 2009 spring training camp, he was reassigned to Rochester.^[2] On April 20, Twins set-up man Jesse Crain went on the fifteen day disabled list with shoulder inflammation, and Mijares was brought back up to the big club to fill the roster spot.^[3] In his first appearance of the season, he pitched a perfect eighth inning in Boston in the Twins' 7-3 loss to the Red Sox.

Repertoire

Mijares throws a fastball that sits 91–94 mph and can touch 95. He has touched 98 in the past. He throws a hard curveball in the upper 70s and a mid 80s slider.

References

^ "Twins option three players". MLB.com. 2008-03-09. http://minnesota.twins.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20080309&content_id=2414657&vkey=pr_min&fext=.jsp&c_id=min. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
^ Twins Option Mijares to Triple A After Poor Spring SI.com, April 1, 2009
^ "Crain on DL with shoulder inflammation". http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090420&content_id=4352110&vkey=news_min&fext=.jsp&c_id=min. Retrieved 2009-04-30.

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Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)

Minnesota Twins current roster

40-man roster	1 Trevor Plouffe \| 2 Denard Span \| 5 Michael Cuddyer \| 7 Joe Mauer \| 8 Nick Punto \| 11 Jason Pridie \| 15 Glen Perkins \| 16 Jason Kubel \| 17 Pat Neshek \| 20 Matt Tolbert \| 21 Delmon Young \| 23 Brendan Harris \| 25 Alexi Casilla \| 27 J. J. Hardy \| 28 Jesse Crain \| 30 Scott Baker \| 33 Justin Morneau \| 36 Joe Nathan \| 47 Francisco Liriano \| 48 Carl Pavano \| 49 Jeff Manship \| 50 José Mijares \| 51 Anthony Swarzak \| 52 Brian Duensing \| 53 Nick Blackburn \| 54 Matt Guerrier \| 57 Luke Hughes \| 58 José Morales \| 59 Kevin Slowey \| 60 Jon Rauch \| 71 Drew Butera \| 76 Wilson Ramos \| 77 Steven Tolleson \| -- Alex Burnett \| -- Clay Condrey \| -- Rob Delaney \| -- Deolis Guerra \| -- Estarlin De Los Santos \| -- Danny Valencia \| -- Loek van Mil

Inactive roster

Disabled list

Coaching Staff	Manager 35 Ron Gardenhire \| Bench Coach 9 Steve Liddle \| 1st Base Coach 13 Jerry White \| 3rd Base Coach 45 Scott Ullger \| Hitting Coach 46 Joe Vavra \| Pitching Coach 40 Rick Anderson \| Bullpen Coach 43 Rick Stelmaszek \| Coach 75 Nate Dammann

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