Amaury Sanit
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Amaury Sanit Sabouren
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 5' 11", Weight 187 lb.
Amaury Sanit pitched for seven seasons in Cuba. He went 25-25 with 58 saves and a 4.11 ERA in 226 games. He was third all-time in the Cuban Serie Nacional in saves behind Euclides Rojas and Orestes González through 2003-2004. Sanit led the league in games pitched (39) in 1998-1999.
Amaury left Cuba in 2003. In 2008, he signed with the New York Yankees. He tossed two shutout innings for the DSL Yankees that year, saving a game, and had a 5.19 ERA in 7 relief stints for the Licey Tigers of the Dominican League that winter.
In 2009, Sanit pitched for three Yankees farm teams - the Tampa Yankees (0 R, 6 IP), the Trenton Thunder (1-2, 10 Sv, 2.95, 13 H in 21 IP) and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees (0-3, 4.12 in 19 G).
[edit] Sources
- A History of Cuban Baseball by Peter Bjarkman
- 2005 Guia Official de Beisbol
- 2009 Yankees Media Guide
