Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Braxton Garrett was born August 5, 1997, in Foley, Alabama. He is a pitcher in the MLB.

Garrett was considered one of the top prospects for the 2016 Major League Baseball draft. He was selected seventh overall in the draft by the Miami Marlins. He agreed to sign with the Marlins for a $4,145,900 signing bonus. He made his professional debut in 2017 with the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the Class A South Atlantic League, where he posted a 1-0 record with a 2.93 ERA in four starts.

MLB.com ranked Garrett as Miami's fifth-best prospect going into the 2018 season. However, he also missed all of that season, as he was recovering from the surgery he had undergone the previous year. Garrett returned in 2019, beginning the year with the Jupiter Hammerheads of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, and also pitched in one game for the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp of the Class AA Southern League. Over 21 starts between the two clubs, he went 6-7 with a 3.54 ERA.

On September 13, 2020, the Marlins selected Garrett’s contract and he made his major league debut that day in the second game of a doubleheader.

In 2022, Garrett spent time up and down between Miami and Triple-A Jacksonville. In 17 turns out of Miami's rotation, Garrett registered a 3-7 record and 3.58 ERA with 90 strikeouts in 88.0 innings pitched.