Mack's Mets: Harol Gonzalez

12/1/21

Player Profile - Harol Gonzalez

Background:

Harol Gonzalez. Starting Pitcher, Bats Both, Throws Right, 6'0", DOB 3/2/1995, Originally signed by the New York Mets as an International free agent on March 26, 2014.

After spending 7 years in the Minors with the Mets, Harol re-signed with them before the 2021 season as a minor league free agent with an invite to Spring Training. He even started one of the Games for the "A" squad - throwing a no run, no hit inning with 1 K. It looked like finally that Harol was going to get his chance to pitch in the Major Leagues at some point last year.

Then, injury. Harol underwent Tommy John Surgery (TJS) in early May 2021, and, after having lost the entire 2020 season due to COVID, lost the 2021 season as well.

Now, he has once again signed a minor league free agent deal with the Mets. Let's hope 2022 is the year that Harol finally makes it to New York City.

In 2019 Harol pitched in Binghamton and Syracuse.

For the Double A Rumble Ponies, he went 6-4 with a 3.14 ERA in 17 games. This included a combined a no hitter with Ryder Ryan in May 2019.

When he was called up to the Syracuse Mets, Harol was one their best pitchers going 6-0 with a 2.68 ERA in 8 games.

This was after a tough 2018 season, Harol pitched in St. Lucie, Las Vegas and Binghamton in 2018 but his 2018 Binghamton stats were most glaring as he went 0-9 in nine starts with a 7.79 ERA.

Harol will be one to watch next year as he comes back from TJS, tries to get back to his success with Syracuse in 2019, and perhaps make it to Citi Field.

Here is Harol Gonzalez’ FANGRAPHS page.

Here is Harol Gonzalez’ Baseball Savant page.

Stats:

Standard Pitching -

2019 Pitching Splits -

Videos:

Video from the May 2019 No-hitter.

Harol pitching for Columbia in 2017.

Among 27 pitchers who tossed a min. 70 innings in the #Mets minor leagues in 2019, Harol Gonzalez recorded:

3rd-lowest WHIP (1.08)
4th-lowest ERA (3.01)
6th-lowest BB% (6.0) https://t.co/i1ubpnzNM5
— Mathew Brownstein (@MBrownstein89) March 1, 2021

Is Harol Gonzalez the guy to keep an👁️on most in Mets camp? The honorable MC @ernestdove🎤just who to keep an👁️on for in Mets camp so far as we move closer to the start of the season. #metstwitter pic.twitter.com/AlFjH8uAcJ
— Thomas Brice (@ThomasBrice2017) March 8, 2021

Grinding! Harol Gonzalez putting in work from home. 💪 (via @HarolGonzalez45’s Instagram) pic.twitter.com/CiCsS828LS
— Mets Farm Report (@MetsFarmReport) June 9, 2020

Not only did #Mets starter Harol Gonzalez allow 0⃣ hits from the mound, but he notched 2⃣ hits at the plate.

Gonzalez combined with Ryder Ryan for the Minors' 8th no-no of the year! 👉 https://t.co/M2xnGvZk3X pic.twitter.com/rrIFr31pGo
— Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) May 9, 2019

1/4/21

Prospect Profile - Harol Gonzalez

As we get ready for the 2021 Baseball season, we will be looking at different Mets prospects. Today, Harol Gonzalez.

Background, Stats, Videos.

Background:

Starting Pitcher, Bats Both, Throws Right, DOB 3/2/1995, Signed by the New York Mets as an International free agent on March 26, 2014.

Last time we saw Harol was last year in the Dominican Winter League where he went 0-2; 5.52 ERA; 6 Games; 14.2 innings, 25 hits, 11 runs, 9 earned, 7 walks, 12 Ks.

That was coming off a big bounce back year in 2019 for Binghamton and Syracuse. For Double A Binghamton he went 6-4 with a 3.14 ERA in 17 games. This included a combined a no hitter with Ryder Ryan in May 2019.

Unlike other pitchers that struggled with the call up to Syracuse in 2019, Harol was one their best pitchers going 6-0 with a 2.68 ERA in 8 games.

This was after a tough 2018 season, Harol pitched in St. Lucie, Las Vegas and Binghamton in 2018 but his 2018 Binghamton stats were most glaring as he went 0-9 in nine starts with a 7.79 ERA.

He came in at #29 on our April 2020 Ultimate Prospect List.

Mack had Harol as his #25 Prospect.

Tom had him at #21.

Mets360 had him at #24.