Johnny Cueto Ortiz was born on February 15, 1986, in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, and is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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He has previously played in MLB for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, and Chicago White Sox.
Cueto made his MLB debut in 2008. By 2011 he emerged as the ace of the Reds’ pitching staff and one of the top pitchers in the National League.
He won 19 games and posted a 2.78 earned run average (ERA) in 2012, finishing fourth in the voting for the National League Cy Young Award and helping lead the Reds to the NL Central title.
In 2014, he won 20 games with a 2.25 ERA and tied for the NL lead in strikeouts with 242, finishing as the runner-up for the Cy Young Award.
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In 2016, Cueto won 18 games with the Giants while posting a 2.79 ERA, helping lead them to the postseason, where they lost in the NLDS, and he achieved another top-10 finish in the Cy Young voting.
He was an MLB All-Star in 2014 and 2016 and was chosen as the starting pitcher for the 2016 MLB All-Star Game. From 2011 to 2017, Cueto accumulated the second-lowest ERA of all pitchers with at least 750 innings pitched (behind Clayton Kershaw), managing a 2.94 ERA alongside a 90–51 (.638) record in 1,256+1⁄3 innings. He underwent Tommy John surgery in 2018.
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