Chris Mazza spent the first seven years of his baseball career toiling away in the minor leagues without getting a call to the majors. As a 27th round pick in the 2011 MLB Draft, Mazza’s long journey took him from the Minnesota Twins—he pitched in the Gulf Coast League and in Single-A until his 2015 release—to the Miami Marlins—he made it up to Triple-A in 2018 before his eventual release—to the San Rafael Pacifics of the Pacific Association and the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League.
After finishing out 2018 with the Seattle Mariners organization—he pitched the remainder of the year with the Arkansas Travelers—Mazza was selected by the New York Mets in the Triple-A portion of the Rule V Draft.