Edwin Uceta

Edwin Daniel Uceta (born January 9, 1998) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and New York Mets. Uceta signed with the Dodgers organization for $10,000 on July 2, 2016, when he was 16 years old. He spent that season with the Dominican Summer League Dodgers, where he was 2–1 with a 1.72 ERA in 31+1⁄3 innings over 11 games (3 starts). The following season he was assigned to the Ogden Raptors of the rookie-class Pioneer League, where he was the starting pitcher in the league championship game that the Raptors won. In 2018, he was promoted to the Class-A Great Lakes Loons of the Midwest League and recognized as one of the Dodgers top-30 prospects by MLB Pipeline. He was 5–6 with a 3.20 ERA in 20 starts for the Loons. He split the 2019 season between the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League and the Tulsa Drillers of the Texas League, pitching to a combined 11–2 record and 2.77 ERA in 26 games (24 of them starts). He was a mid-season all-star for the Quakes and started the Texas League Championship Game, pitching four scoreless innings in game the Drillers ultimately lost late. The Dodgers added Uceta to their 40-man roster after the 2020 season.