Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Gavin Stone was born October 15, 1998, in Lake City, Arkansas. He is a pitcher in the MLB.

Stone made his professional debut in 2021 with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and was promoted to the Great Lakes Loons in mid-August. Over 22 starts between the two teams, he went 2–3 with a 3.76 ERA and 138 strikeouts over 91 innings.

He returned to Great Lakes to open the 2022 season. After six starts in which he went 1–1 with a 1.44 ERA over 25 innings, he was promoted to the Tulsa Drillers. After 13 starts with Tulsa in which he posted a 6–4 record, a 1.60 ERA, and 107 strikeouts over 73+1⁄3 innings, he was promoted to the Oklahoma City Dodgers in mid-August, where he had a 1.16 ERA in six starts and ended his season by striking out 11 in six scoreless innings against the Salt Lake Bees. For the 2022 minor league season, he was 9–6 with a 1.48 ERA in 121+2⁄3 innings in which he struck out 168 batters. Stone was selected by the Dodgers as their 2022 Branch Rickey Minor League Pitcher of the Year. Stone returned to Oklahoma City to open the 2023 season and he was called up to the majors for the first time on May 3, to start against the Philadelphia Phillies. In his debut, Stone allowed four earned runs on eight hits and two walks in four innings. He recorded one strikeout, of Nick Castellanos.