Jack Flaherty
American baseball player (born 1995)
Jack Rafe Flaherty (, born October 15, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Flaherty was selected by the Cardinals in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft and made his MLB debut with them in 2017.
Amateur career
Flaherty attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, where his pitching coach was future MLB pitching coach Ethan Katz. He pitched and played shortstop and third base as a member of the varsity baseball team for all four of his years at Harvard-Westlake. He was a sophomore when two of his high school teammates and fellow pitchers, Max Fried and Lucas Giolito, were both drafted in the first round of the 2012 MLB draft. In 2013, as a junior, Flaherty pitched a 13–0 record with a 0.63 ERA, striking out 112 batters in 89 innings while only walking 10. During his senior season, Harvard-Westlake was the consensus #1 team in the nation in the MaxPreps "XCellent 50" for much of the beginning of the season, before dropping out of the rankings altogether.
Flaherty played for the United States national team at the 2013 18U Baseball World Cup, pitching 10+1⁄3 innings to help win the Gold Medal in the tournament.
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