Jhony Brito
Jhony Rafael Brito (born February 17, 1998) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2023. Career
Brito signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent on November 9, 2015. He made his professional debut in 2016 with the Dominican Summer League Yankees. Brito spent the 2017 season with the Low-A Staten Island Yankees, making three scoreless starts and with eight strikeouts He underwent Tommy John surgery later that season, ending his year and causing him to miss the entirety of the 2018 season as well. He returned in 2019 to play with the Single-A Charleston River Dogs, appearing in 22 games (9 starts) and posting a 6–4 win–loss record and 3.58 earned run average (ERA) with 79 strikeouts and two saves in  innings pitched. Brito did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 he split the year between the High-A Hudson Valley Renegades and Double-A Somerset Patriots, making 22 starts in total and registering a 7–7 record and 3.55 ERA with 118 strikeouts in  innings pitched. Brito spent the 2022 season with Somerset and the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, pitching to a cumulative 11–4 record and 2.96 ERA with 91 strikeouts in  innings across 26 games (23 starts). On November 10, 2022, the Yankees selected Brito to the 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. Brito was initially optioned to the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to begin the 2023 season. However, after Luis Severino suffered a lat injury, Brito was added to the major league rotation to begin the year. He made his major league debut on April 2. On May 20, Brito was optioned to Triple-A Scranton to make space on the roster for Severino's return. References

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1998 births
Living people
People from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
Major League Baseball pitchers
New York Yankees players
Dominican Summer League Yankees players
Gulf Coast Yankees players
Staten Island Yankees players
Charleston RiverDogs players
Hudson Valley Renegades players
Somerset Patriots players
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders players
Toros del Este players