Miguel Angel Gómez Martínez (born May 31, 1974) is a former minor league baseball pitcher who has been a mainstay on the Panama national baseball team in the early 21st century. He was on Panama's roster in the

2006 World Baseball Classic The 2006 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was the inaugural tournament between national baseball teams that included players from Major League Baseball. It was held from March 3 to 20 in stadiums that are in and around Tokyo, Japan; San Juan, Puerto ...

Career

Amateur career

Miguel Gomez started his amateur career in Panama Metro youth system, later signed in 1992 by Toronto Blue Jays organization. Since 2009 plays for Bocas del Toro baseball team aka ''Turtle-men'' on the Panama National Baseball Championship, achieving four straight finals with them. In 2009 and 2010 as the number one starter of the team, since 2011 as main closer.
On Game 7 of the 2012 season, saved the game for Bocas del Toro, to win their first national title in 51 years on a dramatic 5:50 hours game.
In the 2013 Finals, on Game 6 was brought as emergency starter and shutout Chiriqui for 6.2 innings, the game finished 1–0, and could be his best career performance.2013 Game6 Stats

Minor Leagues

He started his professional career in 1992 with the

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, going 2–8 with a 7.33 ERA. In 1993, he went 3–0 with a 3.77 ERA for the DSL Blue Jays East, In 1994 injured, then he went 2–0 with a 1.23 ERA for the DSL Blue Jays in 1995. In 1996, he pitched for the

Dunedin Blue Jays The Dunedin Blue Jays are a Minor League Baseball team of the Florida State League and are the Single-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball club. They are located in Dunedin, Florida, and play their home games at TD Ballpark, ...

, going 5–4 with five saves and a 3.38 ERA in 33 games in relief. He pitched for Dunedin and the Hagerstown Suns in 1997, going 4–3 with a 4.93 ERA for the former and 1–1 with an 8.04 ERA for the latter. 1997 was his final season in minor league baseball - overall, he posted a 20–21 record in the minors.

Other Leagues

Played for the Carta Vieja Ronners of Probeis in the winter of 2001–2002, going 5–0 with a 1.12 ERA. From 2002 to 2003 played for

Mexico City Tigers The Quintana Roo Tigers (), formerly known as the Mexico (City) Tigers () are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League based in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The team is part of the Southern Division (). The team has won twelve champ ...

of the Liga Mexicana de Béisbol. In 2003, Gomez pitched for the Brother Elephants in Taiwan, going 4–3 with a 1.69 ERA. He went 3–3 with a 4.68 ERA with them in 2004, and was released after the season.

International career

During the

2001 Baseball World Cup The 2001 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 34th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the ...

, he went 2–0 with two saves and a 1.23 ERA.
In the

2002 Intercontinental Cup The 2002 Intercontinental Cup was an association football match played on 3 December 2002, between Real Madrid of Spain, winners of the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, and Olimpia of Paraguay, winners of the 2002 Copa Libertadores. The match was ...

, Gomez went 0–1, allowing six earned runs in 2 innings of work. Gomez pitched in the

2005 Baseball World Cup The 2005 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 36th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the ...

, going 2–0 with three saves and 0.49 ERA.
During the

, he posted an atrocious 45.00 ERA.
In the

2007 Pan-American Games The 2007 Pan American Games, officially known as the XV Pan American Games, were a major continental multi-sport event that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 13 to 29, 2007. A total of 5,633 athletes from 42 National Olympic Comm ...

, Gomez allowed one run in 11 innings of work.
He pitched in the

2008 Americas Baseball Cup 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

, going 1–0 with a 4.26 ERA.

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