BIOGRAPHY
Tyler Fermin Mahle was born on September 29, 1994, in Newport Beach, California. He is a pitcher in the MLB.
Mahle attended Westminster High School in Westminster, California. He committed to play college baseball at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the seventh round of the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed with the Reds and made his professional debut that same year with the Arizona League Reds, going 1-3 with a 2.36 ERA in 34.1 innings pitched.
He spent 2014 with the Billings Mustangs where he was 5-4 with a 3.87 ERA in 15 starts and 2015 with the Dayton Dragons where he pitched to a 13-8 record and 2.43 ERA in 27 games (26 starts). In 2016, he pitched for the Daytona Tortugas and the Pensacola Blue Wahoos where he was 14-6 with a 3.64 ERA in 27 starts.
Mahle was called up to make his major league debut on August 27, 2017. In 24 starts between Pensacola and Louisville prior to his call up he was 10-7 with a 2.06 ERA and a 0.96 WHIP. On September 13 of the same year, Mahle pitched five shutout innings against the St. Louis Cardinals to earn his first MLB win. Mahle spent the rest of 2017 with the Reds after being called up and in four starts for the Reds, he was 1-2 with a 2.70 ERA.
Mahle began 2018 in Cincinnati's opening rotation but was optioned to Louisville in August before being recalled in September. In 23 starts for the Reds, he went 7–9 with a 4.98 ERA. Mahle returned to Cincinnati's rotation to begin 2019. In 2019 for Cincinnati, Mahle pitched to a 3–12 record and a 5.14 ERA in 25 games, notching 129 strikeouts along the way. Mahle had a bounceback season in 2020, registering a 2–2 record and 3.59 ERA with 60 strikeouts in 47+2⁄3 innings of work. Mahle had perhaps his breakout season in 2021, when he went 13–6 with a 3.75 ERA and 210 strikeouts in 180 innings.
On August 2, 2022, the Reds traded Mahle to the Minnesota Twins in exchange for Spencer Steer, Christian Encarnacion-Strand, and Steve Hajjar.
On January 13, 2023, Mahle agreed to a one-year, $7.5 million contract with the Twins, avoiding salary arbitration.
Mahle signed a 2-year deal with the Texas Rangers during the winter of 2023.
