| John Mariotti | |||
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| Québec Capitales | |||
| Pitcher | |||
| Born:August 19, 1984 Conway, South Carolina | |||
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John Mariotti (born August 19, 1984) is a professional baseball pitcher, who is currently with the Québec Capitales.
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat. The objectives of the offensive team are to hit the ball into the field of play, and to run the bases—having its runners advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs". The objective of the defensive team is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate. The team that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the pitcher is assigned the number 1. The pitcher is often considered the most important player on the defensive side of the game, and as such is situated at the right end of the defensive spectrum. There are many different types of pitchers, such as the starting pitcher, relief pitcher, middle reliever, lefty specialist, setup man, and the closer.
The Québec Capitales are a professional baseball team based in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The Capitales are a member of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. Since the 1999 season to the present, the Capitales have played their home games at Stade Canac.
He was drafted by the Anaheim Angels in the 44th round of the 2003 MLB draft out of Chaminade College School and in the 36th round of the 2004 MLB draft out of Gulf Coast Community College, but did not sign either time. He was then drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 18th round of the 2007 MLB draft from Coastal Carolina University and signed.
Chaminade College School is an all-boys Catholic secondary school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. As one of the American League's eight charter teams in 1901, this particular franchise spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, to become the St. Louis Browns. After 52 often-beleaguered years in St. Louis, the franchise was purchased in November 1953 by a syndicate of Baltimore business and civic interests led by attorney/civic activist Clarence Miles and Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. The team's current majority owner is lawyer Peter Angelos.
Coastal Carolina University, commonly referred to as CCU or Coastal, is a public liberal arts university in Conway, South Carolina, which is located in the Myrtle Beach metropolitan area. Founded in 1954, Coastal became an independent university in 1993.
Mariotti played for the Orioles farm system through 2010 before he was released. He then signed with the Québec Capitales of the Canadian-American Association.
He was on the roster for the Italy national baseball team at the 2012 European Baseball Championship and 2013 World Baseball Classic.
The Italy national baseball team represents Italy in international baseball competition. The Italian national team is as of 2018 ranked 16th in the world.
The 2012 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament being held from September 7 to September 16, 2012. The Confederation of European Baseball selected the Netherlands to host the tournament.
The 2013 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, held from March 2 to March 19, 2013. This was the third iteration of the WBC, following the two previous tournaments, held in 2006 and 2009.
