GULLS ALUM, BRANDYN GARCIA, MAKES MLB DEBUT FOR MARINERS

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NEWPORT, R.I. - Former Newport Gulls pitcher Brandyn Garcia made his major league debut on Tuesday, July 21st, for the Seattle Mariners in a 6-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. 

Garcia, who grew up in Granby, Connecticut, and attended The Master’s School in nearby Simsbury, was born in Newport, R.I. He started his collegiate career at Quinnipiac and was a member of the Bobcats program from 2020 to 2022. He made four appearances in a shortened 2020 season before leading the program in punchouts in each of the following two seasons, which included a career-high 74 in 2022.

Brandyn spent the 2021 summer in Newport with the Gulls organization. He pitched in seven games, all of which were starts, totalling 30.1 innings. He held a record of 3-4 with a 4.75 ERA and struck out 38 opposing hitters, which contributed to a team total of 411 strikeouts, good for third-most in the New England League that summer.

Garcia transferred to Texas A&M after his 2022 season with Quinnipiac, where he was relied on heavily. He finished tied with a team-high 27 appearances, all in relief. Garcia totaled 43.2 innings and held opposing batters to a team-low .213 batting average. He pitched 2.2 scoreless innings against Stanford in the NCAA Regional semifinals, which boosted the Aggies onto the winners' side of the regional championship. Unfortunately, they would fall in back-to-back games against the Cardinal.  

Following the 2023 season in College Station, Garcia was an 11th-round selection in the MLB Draft by the Seattle Mariners. Garcia would go on to pitch ten innings between A-ball and Rookie Ball in the Mariners organization before breaking barriers in his following season in Seattle’s farm system. Between the High-A Everett AquaSox and Double-A Arkansas Travelers, Garcia tallied 116 innings pitched, putting up an impressive 2.25 ERA and 134 strikeouts.

Brandyn would start his 2025 season in Double-A Arkansas and near the top of the prospect rankings for the Mariners organization. He was elevated to Triple-A Tacoma following 25 appearances and five saves in Arkansas. In just over three weeks in Tacoma, the lefty hurler pitched to the tune of a 2.16 ERA in 8.1 innings, allowing just two earned runs. 

His success throughout his minor league career made the choice easy for Seattle to call up their 13th-best prospect in the system and option right-handed reliever Juan Burgos to Tacoma.

In his first appearance, Garcia was given the eighth inning vs. the scorching-hot Milwaukee Brewers, who challenged the lefty, getting four hits, and scoring two runs, only one coming across earned. Garcia faced six batters in his debut and looks to carry on his success from his minor league career to the big leagues.

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The Newport Gulls, members of the 13-team New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL), are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded as the Rhode Island Gulls in 1998 in Cranston, R.I., before moving to Newport in 2001. In addition to recruiting, fielding, and developing a team of the nation’s top collegiate baseball athletes and attracting 50,000 fans annually to Cardines Field, the predominantly volunteer organization strives to benefit the community via summer camps, reading programs, fundraisers, scholarships, and charitable donations – totaling over $1 million since 2001. The Gulls are eight-time champions of the NECBL – the winningest franchise in league history – and were ranked as the overall No. 1 summer collegiate baseball team in the country by Perfect Game USA in 2012.

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