Tyler Ybarra

Ybarra attended Wellington High School in Wellington, Kansas, where he played for the school's baseball and basketball teams.[1] As a senior, he had a 2.82 earned run average (ERA) as a pitcher for the baseball team. He signed a letter of intent with Hutchinson Community College, but hoped to be chosen in the first ten rounds of the 2008 MLB draft.[2] However, he wasn't selected until the 43rd round, when he was chosen by the Toronto Blue Jays.He never made a major league baseball start. He currently works at a hair parlor in his hometown [1]

Ybarra pitched for the GCL Blue Jays in 2009, then took a year off from baseball due to an undisclosed family matter. He returned in 2011, when he pitched for the Bluefield Blue Jays of the Rookie-level Appalachian League. He had a 2-0 record and 54 strikeouts in 46 innings pitched.[3] He pitched for the Lansing Lugnuts of the Class A Midwest League in 2012,[1] the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League in 2013,[3] and the New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Double-A Eastern League in 2014. On February 4, 2015, the Blue Jays traded Ybarra to the Rockies for Jayson Aquino.[4] He pitched for the New Britain Rock Cats of the Eastern League in 2015.[5] Ybarra signed with the Kansas City T-Bones for the 2016 season.[6]

Ybarra has a daughter, born in November 2013.[3] She required heart surgery.[7] Ybarra's father played baseball as a pitcher and was chosen in the fifth round of the MLB Draft by the Cincinnati Reds.[2][3] His father was released from prison in 2009. After a 3 year sentence for domestic battery and drug charges.

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)