Bio
Javier Reynoso comes to Sioux City after spending last season with Windy City (Frontier League) where he went 4-1 with a 4.57 ERA. He made 10 starts and two relief appearances for Windy City while pitching in 63 innings with 61 strikeouts. Reynoso had a short stay following the season as property of Ottawa who traded for him on January 2. Reynoso did not pitch in 2022, and he spent parts of the 2021 season in Mexico on the injured list of the Generales de Durango. The 2020 season was cancelled due to the worldwide pandemic.
In 2019, Reynoso pitched with New Jersey of the Can-Am League, going 2-1 with a 2.31 ERA in nine games of relief. He would work in 11.2 innings with 17 strikeouts. His stay in New Jersey was bookended by one stop in AAA Mexico to begin the season and two more stops after at Mexico’s highest level. Reynoso began the season with Olmecas de Tabasco and appeared in just three games, totaling a third of an inning before being released. He would then spend from May 18 to June 9 with New Jersey before being signed by the Toros de Tijuana. He would post a 1-0 record in eight innings with a 5.63 ERA with nine strikeouts in seven relief appearances. On July 29, Tijuana traded Reynoso to the Generales de Durango. With Durango, the lefty would appear in five games, all in relief pitching, in 6.1 innings with six strikeouts. He would allow 15 earned runs, leading to a 21.32 ERA. Durango would move Reynoso back to Tijuana following the end of the 2019 season.
Reynoso would spend the 2018 winter-ball season with Puebla in Mexico and follow that short season back in Puebla during the spring season in Mexico. In the winter-ball campaign, he would pitch in eight games out of the pen in 6.1 innings with a 4.26 ERA and four strikeouts. His spring season saw him pitch in 8.2 innings in nine games of relief with five strikeouts with an 8.31 ERA. In 2017, Reynoso would make his first appearance in Mexico, pitching in two games over two innings for Monclova. The bulk of his season was spent with Gateway in the Frontier League. He would pitch in 21 games out of the bullpen, good for fourth in appearance for the club . Reynoso would go 1-0 in 31.2, surrendering 18 earned runs with 36 strikeouts and a 5.12 ERA.
Reynoso would miss the 2015 and 2016 seasons after being drafted in the 23rd round by the Kansas City Royals in 2013 out of Middle Georgia State University. He would spend 2013 at rookie-level Burlington in the Appalachian League, going 0-2 with a 2.63 ERA in 24 innings. He followed that season up with a 1-4 record in 2014 in 25 innings at Idaho Falls in the Pioneer League. His lone season at Middle Georgia, Reynoso made 10 starts and six appearances out of the pen, pitching 64.1 innings. He would go 5-2 with a 2.80 ERA and a 1.34 WHIP adding 83 strikeouts.
Reynoso began his college career with Coastal Carolina in 2012. He would make 11 starts while adding another eight games out of the pen for the team. He would strike out 22 in 48 innings and would go 3-2 on the season. Reynoso had his name called in the 2011 draft in the 39th round by the Chicago White Sox while in high school at Brooks-DeBartolo Collegiate High School in Tampa, Florida. He would elect to sign with Coastal Carolina and forgo professional ball. While in high school, Reynoso helped lead his team to their first state tournament berth appearance, going 9-4 on the mound with a 1.30 ERA. Reynoso’s two brothers played in the Cardinals and Twins organizations while his father Reggie Williams played in the Major Leagues.