Daniel Espino

Daniel Andres Espino, born January 5, 2001, is a Panamanian professional baseball pitcher in the Cleveland Guardians organization of Major League Baseball. Born and raised in Panama, he came to the United States in the summer of 2016 through the Albany Paulies Baseball Program in Georgia and attended Georgia Premier Academy in Statesboro, where he went 9-0 with a 0.32 earned run average as a senior in 2019. The club, then called the Cleveland Indians, selected him 24th overall in the first round of the 2019 draft and he signed for 2.5 million dollars. Shoulder injuries and surgeries in 2023 and 2024 kept him off the mound for long stretches, and he was promoted to the major leagues for the first time on June 12, 2026.