Lineras Torres Jr. (born October 15, 2000) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cleveland Guardians organization.

Amateur career

Torres graduated from Beacon High School in

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, where he played baseball. Between his junior and senior years, USA Baseball chose him for their 18-and-under team. As a senior at Beacon, he pitched to a 0.68 earned run average while striking out 85 batters in 41

innings pitched In baseball, innings pitched (IP) are the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that are put out while the pitcher is on the pitching mound in a game. Three outs made is equal to one innin ...

. He committed to play college baseball at

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Professional career

The Cleveland Indians selected Torres with the 41st selection of the

2018 Major League Baseball draft The 2018 Major League Baseball (MLB) First-Year Player Draft began on June 4, 2018. The draft assigned amateur baseball players to MLB teams. The draft order was determined based on the reverse order of the 2017 MLB season final standings. In a ...

. Torres signed with the Indians on June 19 for $1.35 million. He made his professional debut with the Arizona League Indians and spent the whole season there, compiling a 1.76 ERA in six games (five starts). He underwent

Tommy John surgery Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, colloquially known as Tommy John surgery (TJS), is a surgical graft procedure where the ulnar collateral ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with either a tendon from elsewhere in the patient's bo ...

prior to the 2019 season, forcing him to miss the year. Torres did not play a minor league game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the season. He spent the 2021 season with the Lynchburg Hillcats, appearing in twenty games (19 starts) and going 2-7 with a 6.29 ERA and 73 strikeouts over innings.

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