BIOGRAPHY
John Brebbia was born on May 30, 1990, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a pitcher in the MLB.
Brebbia grew up in Sharon, Massachusetts, and attended Sharon High School through his junior year. He transferred to Wellington High School in Wellington, Florida for his senior year to improve his chances of earning a college baseball scholarship. As a senior at Wellington, he had a 10–1 win-loss record with a 0.83 earned run average (ERA), and recorded an 18-strikeout game.
After graduating from Wellington, Brebbia attended Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, where he was a pitcher for the Elon Phoenix baseball team. During his freshman year, Brebbia helped the Phoenix secure an at-large bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. In 2011, his junior year, he went 7-1 with a 1.76 ERA in 27 relief appearances. In 2010 and 2011, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
The New York Yankees selected Brebbia in the 30th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft. Brebbia played the 2014 and 2015 seasons in the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, for the Sioux Falls Canaries and Laredo Lemurs, before signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks in September 2015. The Cardinals selected Brebbia from the Diamondbacks in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft at the 2015 Winter Meetings.
He made his major league debut against the Colorado Rockies on May 28. He remained with the team for the rest of the season, and he finished his 2017 rookie campaign with a 2.44 ERA, 51 strikeouts in 51 2⁄3 innings, and a 0.93 WHIP.
On December 21, 2020, Brebbia signed a one-year, $800K contract with the San Francisco Giants.
In the 2021 regular season for the Giants, Brebbia was 0-1 with a 5.89 ERA. He pitched 18.1 innings over 18 games. For AAA Sacramento, he was 3-0 with a 2.93 ERA in 17 games (2 starts) in which he pitched 15.1 innings.
In 2022 with the Giants, Brebbia was 6–2 with a 3.18 ERA in 68 innings, as he pitched in a league-leading 76 games (11 starts).
On January 13, 2023, Brebbia agreed to a one-year, $2.3 million contract with the Giants, avoiding salary arbitration.
Brebbia signed a one-year deal for the 2024 season with the Chicago White Sox with a mutual option for 2025.
