Luis Gil (baseball)

Luis Ángel Gil (born June 3, 1998) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021.

Minor leagues
Gil signed with the Minnesota Twins as an international free agent in 2015 for a $90,000 signing bonus. He made his professional debut that season with the Dominican Summer League Twins, going 1–2 with a 4.63 ERA over $23 1⁄3$ innings. After not pitching in 2016, he spent 2017 with the Dominican Summer League Twins, pitching to a 0–2 record with a 2.59 earned run average over 14 starts.

On March 16, 2018, the Twins traded Gil to the New York Yankees for Jake Cave. He spent the season with the Pulaski Yankees and Staten Island Yankees, compiling a combined 2–3 record and 1.96 ERA over 12 starts, striking out 68 over 46 innings. He started 2019 with the Charleston RiverDogs, and was promoted to the Tampa Tarpons in July. Over twenty starts between the two teams, Gil went 5–5 with a 2.72 ERA, compiling 123 strikeouts over 96 innings.

Gil began the 2021 season with the Somerset Patriots and was promoted to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders in June. On July 21, Gil combined with Reggie McClain and Stephen Ridings to throw a no-hitter for the RailRiders.

New York Yankees
The Yankees promoted him to the major leagues on August 3, 2021, making his major league debut with a start against the Baltimore Orioles. He pitched six innings, allowed four hits and recorded six strikeouts, earning the win. Gil started his career with $15 2/3$ scoreless innings, the most by any Yankee pitcher since 1961. He is the first pitcher in MLB history with a scoreless start in his first three appearances.

Gil pitched for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in 2022 and made one appearance for the Yankees. He injured his elbow during a May 2022 game and required Tommy John surgery, ending his 2022 season. He began the 2023 season on the 60-day injured list and returned to action in September 2023, making two rehab starts for High–A Tampa. Still, Gil did not make an appearance in the majors the entire 2023 season.

The Yankees named Gil to their starting rotation for the start of the 2024 season, following ace Gerrit Cole's injury during spring training. On May 18, Gil recorded 14 strikeouts against the Chicago White Sox, breaking Orlando Hernández's record (13) for the most by a Yankees rookie. Hernández coincidentally threw out the game's first pitch. Gil received his first American League Pitcher of the Month after winning all six of his May starts, and conceding an ERA of only 0.70 with 14 hits in 38⅔ innings, along with 44 strikeouts.