Josh Dye

Baseball player
Josh Dye
Dye with the Omaha Storm Chasers in 2022
Free agent
Pitcher
Born: (1996-09-14) September 14, 1996 (age 27)
DeLand, Florida
Bats: Left
Throws: Left

Joshua Dye (born September 14, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.

Dye attended DeLand High School in DeLand, Florida, where he helps guide the Bulldogs to the Class 8A semifinals as a senior in 2014.[1][2] He went unselected in the 2014 Major League Baseball draft and enrolled at Florida Gulf Coast University where he played college baseball. He underwent elbow surgery after his freshman year in 2015, where he posted a 3.70 ERA over 41+1⁄3 innings. After not pitching in 2016, he returned from the injury in 2017, starting 16 games and going 8–5 with a 3.23 ERA and 76 strikeouts over 94+2⁄3 innings.[3] For the 2018 season, he started 14 games and went 8–4 with a 2.40 ERA.[4] Following the season's end, he was selected by the Kansas City Royals in the 23rd round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft.[5]

Dye signed with the Royals for $60,000, and made his professional debut with the Burlington Royals before he was promoted to the Wilmington Blue Rocks.[6] Over 12 games (eight starts) between the two teams, he went 2–3 with a 4.20 ERA and forty strikeouts over 40+2⁄3 innings. Dye split the 2019 season between the Lexington Legends and Wilmington and went 5–3 with a 2.15 ERA and 81 strikeouts over 62+2⁄3 innings pitched in relief.[7] He did not play a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] He split the 2021 season between the Northwest Arkansas Naturals and the Omaha Storm Chasers, making forty relief appearances and compiling a 4–2 record, a 2.60 ERA, and 73 strikeouts over 65+2⁄3 innings between the two teams.[9] He returned to Omaha for the 2022 season.[10] Over 48 games (six starts), he went 5–3 with a 4.48 ERA and 58 strikeouts over 62+1⁄3 innings.[11]

Dye began the 2023 season with Triple-A Omaha, and logged a 1.80 ERA across 3 relief appearances before he was released on May 2.[12]

On May 11, 2023, Dye signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers organization and was assigned to the Triple-A Round Rock Express.[13] He elected free agency on November 6. [14]

References

  1. ^ "South Dade shuts out DeLand, 1-0, in 8A state baseball semifinal". Daytona Beach News-Journal Online.
  2. ^ Twardus, Kelli Krebs;and Nick. "Pitching dominates at South Dade gets past DeLand". The News-Press.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "2018 Conference Previews: Atlantic Sun Conference".
  4. ^ "The MLB Draft shouldn't hit Florida Gulf Coast University's roster as bad as last year".
  5. ^ "MLB draft: Former Sharks Mario Leon, Niels Stone taken; FGCU's Dye also picked".
  6. ^ "MLB draft picks Fortes, Dye, Rey sign first contracts".
  7. ^ "Under-the-radar Royals prospects: 5 names to keep an eye on as season begins".
  8. ^ "2020 Minor League Baseball Season Cancelled". MiLB.com.
  9. ^ "Kansas City Royals prospects: 14 players who could break into big leagues in 2022".
  10. ^ Sports, Fox (November 18, 2016). "Cardinals add four players to fill out 40-man roster". Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  11. ^ "Josh Dye Stats, Fantasy & News".
  12. ^ "Josh Dye Stats, Fantasy & News". milb.com. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  13. ^ "Oklahoma City Takes Game Three in Round Rock, 9-5". milb.com. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  14. ^ https://www.milb.com/transactions/2023-11-06

External links

  • Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
  • Florida Gulf Coast bio