Jeremy Daniel Wolf (; born November 2, 1993) is an

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baseball player on the

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High school and college

Wolf attended Chaparral High School, where he played on the Firebirds alongside among others future major leaguer and fellow outfielder

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, as the team won the Division I Arizona state title. He attended college at Trinity University in

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, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Communications in 2016. In 2015 Wolf was named a ''

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'' College Baseball All-American with, among others, first baseman Simon Rosenbaum and designated hitter/pitcher

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. With Wolf playing in the outfield, the team won the 2016

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Baseball Championship. In 2016, he hit .408/.508/.741 with 60 runs, 28 doubles (leading the

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, and establishing new Trinity and SCAC single-season records), 149 total bases (third in the nation), 11 home runs, and 70 RBIs (4th in the nation). He was named

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First Team of both the

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(ABCA) and D3baseball.com, was named the West Region Player of the Year by the ABCA and D3baseball.com, and was named

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Player of the Year. In his college career Wolf hit a combined .367/.455/.577 with 146 runs, 72 doubles (a Trinity record), and 172 RBIs in 679 at bats over 189 games. In the summer of 2013 Wolf played outfield for the Casper Cutthroats of the Mountain Collegiate Baseball League. In the summer of 2014 he played for the

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of the

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, a collegiate summer baseball league. He batted .331/.399/.491 with one home run and 33 RBIs in 175 at bats. In the summer of 2015 he played left field for the

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of the

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, a collegiate summer baseball league. Wolf batted .280/.370/.409 with three home runs and 22 RBIs in 132 at bats.

Minor leagues

Wolf was selected by the

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in the 31st round of the

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. He signed on June 15, 2016, for a $5,000

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. In 2016, he played primarily first base for the

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of the

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. Wolf's salary was $1,100 per month. He batted .290/.359/.448 with five home runs and 33 RBIs in 183 at bats. In 2017, Wolf played primarily left field and right field for the

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of the

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. He batted .241/.308/.313 with no home runs and 10 RBIs in 83 at bats. After he had surgery to repair a back injury, Wolf was released by the Mets on October 13, 2017.

Team Israel

Wolf is an outfielder on the

. He played in the

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in early July 2019 in

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, as it won all of its games and advanced to the playoffs against Team Lithuania in the 2019 Playoff Series at the end of July 2019 for the last qualifying spot for the

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. Wolf then played for Team Israel at the 2019 European Baseball Championship. He also played for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play

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in Tokyo.

Personal

Wolf was born in

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, and is Jewish. As a young adult, he visited Israel on

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. In October 2018, Wolf made ''

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'' and became an

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, thus becoming a dual

citizen. In October 2019, Wolf moved to

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, Israel, in order to coach baseball and train for the Olympics. Currently he coaches baseball part-time and serves as executive director of More Than Baseball, a

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organization that focuses primarily on serving minor-league athletes.

References

External links

*Jeremy Wolf (June 6, 2018)
"I’ve Lived My Dream,"
Baseball & Business
morethanbaseball.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolf, Jeremy 1993 births Living people Baseball first basemen Baseball outfielders Israeli baseball players Baseball players from Scottsdale, Arizona Trinity Tigers baseball players 2019 European Baseball Championship players Kingsport Mets players Brooklyn Cyclones players