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Sean Gilmartin

Sean Patrick Gilmartin

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: May 8, 1990 in Thousand Oaks, California, US (Age 24.217) 
High School: Crespi Carmelite HS (Encino, CA)
School: Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)

Drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 31st round of the 2008 MLB June Amateur Draft from Crespi Carmelite HS (Encino, CA) and the Atlanta Braves in the 1st round (28th) of the 2011 MLB June Amateur Draft from Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL).

Year	Team	Lg	Level	Unif	Org	Age	Rk	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	HB	IBB	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/BB	BABIP	GB/FB
2009	Florida State	ACC	NCAA	3	fr	19	6	12	3	3.49	18	15	2	0		1	98.0	81	48	38	14	37	83	11			2	1.20	7.44	1.29	3.40	7.62	2.24	--	--
2010	Florida State	ACC	NCAA	3	so	20	7	9	8	5.24	20	18	0	0		0	111.2	134	73	65	15	34	108	5			0	1.50	10.80	1.21	2.74	8.70	3.18	--	--
2011	Florida State	ACC	NCAA	3	jr	21	3	12	1	1.83	17	16	1	0		0	113.1	86	36	23	5	20	122	4			0	0.94	6.83	0.40	1.59	9.69	6.10	--	--
	GCL Braves	GCL	Rk	-	atl	21	-	0	1	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	2	0	0	1	0	0		0	1.50	13.50	0.00	0.00	4.50	--	--	--
	Rome	SAL	A	-	atl	21	-	2	1	2.53	5	5	0	0	0	0	21.1	18	6	6	3	2	30	3	0		0	0.94	7.59	1.27	0.84	12.66	15.00	--	--
2012	Mississippi	Sou	AA	11	atl	22	32	5	8	3.54	20	20	3	0	0	0	119.1	111	49	47	9	26	86	2	0		1	1.15	8.37	0.68	1.96	6.49	3.31	--	--
	Gwinnett	IL	AAA	56	atl	22	-	1	2	4.78	7	7	0	0	0	0	37.2	41	22	20	6	13	25	0	0		0	1.43	9.80	1.43	3.11	5.97	1.92	--	--
2013	GCL Braves	GCL	Rk	-	atl	23	-	0	0	0.00	3	2	0	0	0	0	9.0	1	0	0	0	0	11	0	0		0	0.11	1.00	0.00	0.00	11.00	--	--	--
	Rome	SAL	A	-	atl	23	-	1	0	1.80	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	4	1	1	0	0	5	0	0		0	0.80	7.20	0.00	0.00	9.00	--	--	--
	Gwinnett	IL	AAA	11	atl	23	73	3	8	5.74	17	17	0	0	0	0	91.0	112	61	58	12	33	65	4	0		0	1.59	11.08	1.19	3.26	6.43	1.97	--	--
2014	New Britain	East	AA	11	min	24	-	7	3	3.13	12	12	0	0	0	0	72.0	76	30	25	2	16	74	3	0		1	1.28	9.50	0.25	2.00	9.25	4.62	--	--
	Rochester	IL	AAA	21	min	24	-	2	4	4.28	14	14	0	0	0	0	73.2	69	39	35	7	28	59	3	0		0	1.32	8.43	0.86	3.42	7.21

The surprising part of the Ryan Doumit trade wasn’t that the Atlanta Braves added another catcher. The surprising part was that they added another catcher – a backup, no less – at the expense of Sean Gilmartin, a left-handed pitcher who was their Round 1 draftee in June 2011.

Which tells us: The Braves had seen enough of Gilmartin to believe that he would never pitch significant innings for them. Otherwise they wouldn’t have given up on a 23-year-old lefty to land a 32-year-old backup catcher.

Under Frank Wren, the Braves don’t mess around with pitchers. If they decide a guy isn’t good enough – or has topped out, or has lost whatever it was they thought he had – they’ll get rid of him. They won’t keep Running Him Out There. (They save that approach for underperforming big-ticket position players.) They’ll dump him for whatever they can get and let him become someone else’s project.

On June 14, 2008, Charlie Morton – who was then seen as a prized minor-league arm – made his somewhat heralded Braves’ debut. On June 3, 2009, the demoted-to-Class-AAA Morton was shipped to Pittsburgh in the Nate McLouth trade. (Update: Morton, who just turned 30, had a pretty fair year for the Pirates in 2013, albeit after a series of unimpressive ones.)

On July 12, 2011, Braves representative Jair Jurrjens pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings in the All-Star Game. On April 24, 2012, he was sent to Gwinnett after starting the season 0-2 with a 9.37 ERA. He would log only seven more big-league games for the Braves. In November 2012, he was allowed – at age 26 – to become a free agent. (Update: Jurrjens signed with Baltimore, worked 7 1/3 big-innings last summer and was cut. He then signed with Detroit, the team that had developed him, but was cut again.)

When the Braves sour on a pitcher, they usually have cause. According to Keith Law of ESPN Insider, Gilmartin was a No. 1 pick – so maybe the Braves whiffed there, huh? – who was showing no signs of becoming even a No. 4 starter. Writes Law: "Gilmartin's fastball sits mostly 87-89 mph with a decent changeup, below-average breaking ball and good control … He might be a fifth starter, although it's hard to see him even being average in the majors with fringy stuff and no out pitch."

As for Doumit: He’s another bit of insurance in case Evan Gattis, whose up-from-oblivion story sometimes seems too good to be true, turns out to be less glorious in large doses. Like Gattis, Doumit is a better hitter than defender. The defender remains the prospect Christian Bethancourt, who doesn’t hit very much. It might seem as if the Braves have a slew of catchers – don’t forget Gerald Laird, another backup – but the reality is that they don’t yet have one that they can trust over 130 games. In sum, they don’t have the Brian McCann of 2010.