Giovanni Carrara

Pitcher

Born: March 4, 1968
El Tigre, Anzoátegui, Venezuela

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

July 29, 1995, for the Toronto Blue Jays

Last MLB appearance

September 23, 2006, for the Los Angeles Dodgers

MLB statistics

Win–loss record

29–18

Earned run average

4.69

Strikeouts

338

Former teams

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Carrara and the second or maternal family name is Jiménez.

Giovanni Carrara Jiménez [car-RAH-ra] (born March 4, 1968) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. Carrara bats and throws right-handed. He established himself as a valuable middle relief man in MLB, but is a starter in Italy.

A failed starter in MLB, he converted to an effective long reliever. Carrara has a 90–92 MPH fastball. He also throws a couple of breaking balls: a deceptive slow curve, as his off-speed pitch, and a hard one that is somewhere between a slider and cut fastball. He controls the running game as well, with a good move to both first base and second, and a quick delivery to the plate.

On August 15, 2001, Carrara combined with fellow Venezuelan pitchers Omar Daal, Kelvim Escobar, and Freddy García to win their respective starts: Carrara, of the Dodgers, facing Montreal, 13–1; Daal, in a Phillies victory over the Brewers, 8–6; Escobar, of the Blue Jays, over Oakland, 5–2, and García, of Seattle, against the Red Sox, 6–2. This marked the first time in major league history that four pitchers coming from Venezuela have recorded a winning game in their respective starts in the same day.

On August 26, 2006, Carrara was designated for assignment by the Dodgers. He was called up in September 2006 when rosters expanded and used sparingly after re-joining the big league club. The Dodgers chose not to re-sign Carrara in the offseason.

On May 4, 2007, Carrara was signed by the Caffè Danesi Nettuno of Serie A1 in Italy. In 2008, he was 8–2 with a 2.35 ERA and 49 strikeouts.

Sources

Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Retrosheet – 2001 box scores
Italian Team
The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia – Gary Gillette, Peter Gammons, Pete Palmer. Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 2005. Format: Paperback, 1824pp. ISBN 1-4027-4771-3

Venezuela 2006 World Baseball Classic roster

1 Tomás Pérez 2 Carlos Guillén 9 Edgardo Alfonzo 12 Marco Scutaro 13 Omar Vizquel 15 Víctor Moreno 19 Ramón Hernández 20 Juan Rivera 21 Henry Blanco 23 Ricardo Palma 24 Miguel Cabrera 27 Carlos Hernández 28 Giovanni Carrara 29 Jorge Julio 30 Magglio Ordóñez 31 Víctor Zambrano 34 Freddy García 36 Tony Armas, Jr. 37 Francisco Rodríguez 38 Carlos Zambrano 39 Gustavo Chacín 41 Víctor Martínez 45 Kelvim Escobar 47 Endy Chávez 51 Robert Pérez 52 Carlos Silva 53 Bobby Abreu 56 Tony Álvarez 57 Johan Santana 63 Rafael Betancourt

Manager Luis Sojo

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