BIOGRAPHY
Yennsy Diaz was born on November 15, 1996, in Azua, Dominican Republic. He is a pitcher in the MLB.
Díaz signed with the Blue Jays as an international free agent on July 3, 2014. He began the 2015 season assigned to the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League Blue Jays, and was promoted to the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays for the final month of the season. In 561⁄3 total innings pitched, Díaz posted a 4–4 win–loss record, 2.88 earned run average (ERA), and 58 strikeouts. He played the entire 2016 season with the Rookie Advanced Bluefield Blue Jays, and went 4–6 with a 5.79 ERA and 48 strikeouts in 56 innings. Díaz made his full-season debut in 2017, pitching the year with the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts. In 77 innings, he pitched to a 5–2 record, 4.79 ERA, and 82 strikeouts.
Díaz began the 2018 campaign with Lansing, and was promoted to the Advanced-A Dunedin Blue Jays in late May. He would finish the season with a 10–5 record, 3.05 ERA, and 125 strikeouts in 1471⁄3 innings. The Blue Jays added Díaz to their 40-man roster after the 2018 season to protect him from the Rule 5 draft.
He opened the 2019 season with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. On August 3, the Blue Jays promoted Díaz to the major leagues. Díaz made his major league debut on August 4, allowing two runs over 2⁄3 of an inning pitched. He was returned to New Hampshire on August 5.
With the 2019 Toronto Blue Jays, Díaz appeared in 1 game, compiling a 0-0 record with 27.00 ERA and no strikeouts in 0.2 innings pitched.
New York Mets
On January 27, 2021, Díaz was traded to the New York Mets alongside Sean Reid-Foley and Josh Winckowski in exchange for Steven Matz.
