Lucas Giolito Biography, Education, Personal life and Wife, Career

Lucas Giolito Biography

Lucas Frost Giolito is an American Professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox of a Major League Baseball(MLB). Giolito is the son of  Rick Giolito and Lindsay Frost

Education

Lucas attended Harvard-Westlake School in Studio City, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Giolito was among the  Harvard-Westlake baseball team that included future first-round pick (number 7 overall), and current Atlanta Braves pitcher, Max Fried.  Giolito had a commitment to attend the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and play for the UCLA Bruins baseball team.

However, during his days in high school, he experienced a serious injury on his right elbow( ulnar collateral ligament) preventing him from playing baseball for the rest of his high school season. Although some thought he was good enough to be selected with the first overall choice of the 2012 MLB draft, to the truth, his elbow injury caused him to be listed on the   16th overall selection,  where he was picked by the Washington Nationals

Lucas personal life and Wife

Giolito is a married man, his wife’s name is Arina Dubelko, a Veterinarian. Lucas belongs to a family of actors, starting from his father r, Rick Giolito, a producer, his mother  an actress Lindsay Frost, his uncle Mark Frost a television screenwriter, novelist and produce, and  uncle  Scott Frost who is a writer

Lucas Giolito Career

He made his MLB debut with the Nationals in 2016. His fastball has been clocked as high as 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). Before that, he signed with the Nationals on July 13, 2012—thirty seconds before the deadline—to a minor league contract with a $2.925 million signing bonus. Besides that, the team decided to schedule Tommy John Surgery to fix his right elbow injury

After a few months, he recovered from an elbow injury. By the following summer, he made eight starts for the Gulf Coast Nationals of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League in 2013 and posted a 2.78 earned run average (ERA). Lucas advanced to  Auburn Doubledays of the Class A-Short Season New York-Penn League, beyond that he earned one  run in the 16 innings he pitched

In 2014, he played his first full season of professional baseball with the Hagerstown Suns of the Class A South Atlantic League. He went 10–2 with a 2.20 ERA and 110 strikeouts compared to 28 walks over 20 starts. Giolito was selected as the 2014 South Atlantic League Most Valuable Pitcher and Top Minor League Prospect. He also appeared in the All-Star Futures Game. Therefore, he appeared in the All-Star Futures Game

Syracuse Chiefs

He started his 2015 season with the  Potomac Nationals of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League,  received a midseason promotion to the Harrisburg Senators of the Class AA Eastern League. Lucas was then assigned to Nationals to Harrisburg where he started his 2016 season, due to his good performance, Giolito received a promotion to the  Syracuse Chiefs of the Class AAAInternational League in July.

Washington Nationals( Major Leagues)

New York Mets

It was on June 28, 2016, when Lucas made his major league debut against the New York Mets after he was added to the active roster. In his debut, he pitched four shutout innings, allowing one hit and two walks, while getting one strikeout.

Chicago White Sox

Lucas began the 2017 season with the Charlotte Knights of the International League after he was traded by the Nationals with his friends, Reynaldo López, and Dane Dunning to the Chicago White Sox for Adam Eaton on December 2016.  On August 27, 2017, he earned his first MLB victory in a 7–1 White Sox victory over the big rivals Detroit Tigers Giolito threw seven scoreless innings yielding only three hits and striking out four Tigers. Giolito finished the season going 3-3 with a 2.38 ERA in 7 starts.

In 2018, Giolito was among the starting rotation, making 32 starts for the White Sox, going 10-13 with a 6.13 ERA. In ​173 ¹⁄₃ innings, he struck out 125 but led the American League in walks (90) and earned runs (118), and was 3rd in the league in hit by a pitch in the majors (4.67), and had the highest WHIP among major league pitchers (1.48). Lucas also had worst left on base percentage of all qualifying major league pitchers, stranding only 63.5% of base runners.

 AL pitcher

Giolitos He was also rewarded AL pitcher of the month for the month of May but his streak didn’t last that much, the streak ended on June 19th when he gave up six runs against the Chicago Cubs, receiving only his second loss. He was rewarded due to his hardworking. Lucas improved from the previous year as he went on a nine-game winning streak after starting the year with a 1-1 record. He pitched his first career shutout on May 23rd against the Houston Astros

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