Carlos Duran (baseball)
Carlos Daniel Duran is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball for the Athletics.
Career
Los Angeles Dodgers
Duran signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 8, 2018, as an international amateur. He spent the 2018 and 2019 seasons playing for the Dodgers affiliates in the Dominican Summer League, making 17 starts with a 1.14 ERA and earning DSL mid-season All-Star honors in 2018. Duran did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Duran was assigned to the Class-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in 2021, where he was regarded as being the most prominent pitcher on the Quakes staff. However, he struggled a bit in his first season in the United States, with a 6.11 ERA in 20 appearances for the Quakes and allowed seven earned runs in only innings for the High–A Great Lakes Loons following a September 1 promotion. In 2022, with Great Lakes, he made 13 starts, with a 4.25 ERA and struck out 68 batters in only innings. His season ended early due to an elbow injury and he underwent Tommy John surgery, which cost him all of the 2023 season.
Returning from the surgery in 2024, he began with Rancho Cucamonga, before a July promotion to the Double–A Tulsa Drillers. He made 11 starts for the Drillers, allowing 13 runs in innings for a 3.05 ERA. He also made one fill-in start for the Triple–A Oklahoma City Baseball Club on September 14, where he allowed two runs in only innings. He did not allow a hit but walked three and struck out three in the game.