Erik Swanson

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Erik Donald Swanson (born September 4, 1993) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays. Swanson attended Mariemont High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 2012. Swanson attended Wabash Valley College for one year and then Iowa Western Community College for a year, playing college baseball at both schools and winning the JUCO World Series in 2014 with Iowa Western. The Texas Rangers drafted Swanson in the eighth round, with the 246th overall selection, of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft. Swanson made his professional debut in 2014 with the Low-A Spokane Indians and he spent the whole season there, pitching to a 1–2 win–loss record with a 4.63 earned run average (ERA) with 24 strikeouts in 23+1⁄3 innings pitched out of the bullpen. He split the 2015 season between the rookie-level Arizona League Rangers, Single-A Hickory Crawdads, Double-A Frisco RoughRiders, and Triple-A Round Rock Express, compiling a combined 1–0 record and 2.35 ERA with strikeouts over 15+1⁄3 innings of work. Swanson returned to Hickory to begin the 2016 season. On August 1, 2016, Swanson was traded with Dillon Tate and Nick Green to the New York Yankees in exchange for Carlos Beltrán.