BIOGRAPHY
Stephen Tarpley was born on February 17, 1993, in Los Angeles, California. He is a pitcher in the MLB.
Tarpley attended Gilbert High School in Gilbert, Arizona. The Cleveland Indians selected him in the eighth round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft. He did not sign with the Indians and enrolled at the University of Southern California (USC) to play college baseball for the Trojans. After one year at USC, he transferred to Scottsdale Community College. In 2013, his sophomore and lone year at Scottsdale, he went 3-2 with a 2.35 ERA in 16 games (15 starts).
The Baltimore Orioles selected Tarpley in the third round of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft.
On August 30, 2016, the Pirates traded Tarpley and Tito Polo to the New York Yankees as the players to be named later in the August 1 trade for Iván Nova. New York assigned him to the Tampa Yankees of the FSL, and he pitched in one game for them, giving up five runs in five innings. He spent 2017 with both Tampa and the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League, going a combined 7–0 with an 0.88 ERA and 0.88 WHIP in 18 total relief appearances between the two clubs.
In 2018, Tarpley pitched for Trenton and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders of the Class AAA International League. The Yankees promoted him to the major leagues on September 1, and he made his major league debut the next day. Tarpley pitched in 10 regular season games for the Yankees during his September call up and impressed the Yankees enough to be placed on their post-season roster. During the playoffs he pitched one inning in game three of the 2018 American League Division Series against the Red Sox.
On June 9, 2019, Tarpley recorded his first career save in an extra-innings win against the Cleveland Indians.
