Roberto Osuna is a Mexican-born professional baseball player who currently plays for the Houston Astros as a pitcher. He started his MLB career with the Toronto Blue Jays after spending almost one season in the Mexican league. He made his team debut in 2015 and would become the youngest pitcher in franchise history, as well as the first player born in 1995 to play in MLB.
Roberto Osuna’s bio
Roberto was born in Juan José Ríos, Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico on February 7, 1995, as Roberto Osuna Quintero. Roberto actually belongs to the line of baseball pitchers. So it was almost normal for him to follow the ‘family tradition’. His father, Roberto Sr. played in the Mexican league for twenty-two seasons as a pitcher.
His uncle, Antonio Osuna, also played professional baseball in MLB for eleven seasons as a pitcher. And although Antonio spent most of his eleven year professional career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he also played for several other MLB teams such as the Washington Nationals, Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres and the New York Yankees.
Osuna left school at the age of twelve to help her family by helping her father pick and sell vegetables. After each day of work, Roberto Sr. taught his son the art of pitching which he grew up with and decided to make a career out of it.
Career
Roberto Osuna started his professional career in the Mexican league with Diablos Rojos del México in 2011. He played a total of thirteen games and broke a record of 0–1, a record of 5.49 and a total of 19 2/3 before he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for $1.5 million. He spent the next three seasons in the minor league organization before being promoted to the major league in 2015.
He was first invited to spring training as an undrafted guest, he had no intention of making the main team roster out of camp, but things turned around for him. at camp and he found his name on the roster after impressing franchise management during spring training.
He made his MLB debut in an April 2015 game against the New York Yankees, where he knocked out Alex Rodriguez and forced Stephen Drew to Flyout. Roberto Osuna would become the youngest pitcher in franchise history, as well as the first player born in 1995 to play in MLB. He also became the most trusted arm in the Blue Jays office, recording 1.38 ERA in ten appearances.
The following month (May 2015), he recorded his first win in a 10–6 win over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In the game, he pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings and became the youngest pitcher (twenty years, one hundred days) to record a win for the Blue Jays. During the 2015 American League Divisional Series, he recorded 5 stoppages in the 5th and final game and became the youngest pitcher in American League record history to record such a win in post-season and the 2nd to do so in MLB history.
He finished his 2017 season with thirty-nine saves, a 3–4 record, a 3.38 record, and eighty-three strikeouts and sixty-four innings. The pitcher was unable to reach a salary agreement with the Jays for the 2018 season, which led to salary arbitration. He lost the Blue Jays court case, and in February 2018, he signed a $5.3 million contract with the team that was supposed to run for a year. That same year, he recorded his 100th career save and became the youngest pitcher in MLB history to record 100 saves.
In June, Roberto Osuna was banned for seventy-five games for violating the league’s internal assault policy. The following month, he was traded to the Houston Astros in exchange for David Paulino, Héctor Pérez and Ken Giles. In August, the Astros reinstated him on their roster.
Roberto Osuna wife, girlfriend
We’re sure who he’s dating, but what we’re sure is that the star pitcher isn’t married. He does, however, have two children – a three-year-old son with Alejandra Roman Cota and a daughter he welcomed with an undisclosed wife in September 2017.
In May 2018, the Mexican baseball player was arrested and charged with assault by Toronto police. He allegedly attacked his son’s mother when she visited him from Mexico with their son. Following news of his alleged assault, the league placed him on administrative leave and later sentenced him to a seventy-five game ban without pay for violating the league’s domestic violence policy. .
Shortly after the assault, Cota reportedly returned to Mexico and refused to travel to Toronto to testify against Roberto. The charges against him were therefore dropped in exchange for a peace bond.
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Height, weight and body measurements
Osuna stands at a height of 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) and weighs 104 kg (229 lb). Information regarding his other body measurements had yet to be confirmed as of this writing.