Trevor Richards (baseball)

Richards attended Mater Dei High School in Breese, Illinois. In 2011, his senior year, he went 9-1 with a 1.07 ERA.[1] After high school, he enrolled and played college baseball at Drury University. As a senior in 2015, he went 5-3 with a 3.61 ERA in 11 starts. He was not drafted by an MLB team in the 2015 MLB draft, and signed with the Gateway Grizzlies of the independent Frontier League.[2]

After one and-a-half seasons with the Grizzlies, he was signed by the Miami Marlins in July 2016.[3] He spent 2016 with the Batavia Muckdogs and the Greensboro Grasshoppers, both in Single-A, posting a combined 2–3 record and 2.48 ERA in nine starts (11 appearances).[4] In 2017, he was named the Marlins Minor League Pitcher of the Year after going 12–11 with a 2.53 ERA and 158 strikeouts in 27 games (25 starts) between the Advanced-A Jupiter Hammerheads and the Double-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.[5][6]

On April 2, 2018, Richards was called up by the Miami Marlins to make his first MLB start.[7] He pitched ​4 ¹⁄₃ innings, giving up eight hits and five runs (all earned) while striking out five and walking one; he took the loss, as the Marlins were defeated by the Boston Red Sox, 7–3.[8] On April 25, facing Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers, Richards pitched ​4 ²⁄₃ innings, giving up one hit and striking out 10.[9] Richards finished the 2018 season with a 4-9 record in 25 starts. He struck out 130 batters in ​126 ¹⁄₃ innings.

For the 2019 season, Richards began the season in the Marlins rotation. He was moved to the bullpen on July 26 after going 3-12 in 20 starts.

On July 31, 2019, Richards was traded to the Tampa Bay Rays (along with Nick Anderson) in exchange for Jesús Sánchez and Ryne Stanek.[10] He made his first start as a Ray on August 18, 2019 against the Detroit Tigers, allowing two runs across three and a half innings in a 5–4 Tampa Bay victory.[11]