Jake Kalish
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Jacob "Jake" Louis Kalish (born July 9, 1991) is an American professional baseball left-handed pitcher in the Kansas City Royals organization.
He was picked by the Royals in the 32nd round of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft. In 2016 Kalish was an MILB.com Kansas City Organization All Star, and named the organization's best relief pitcher. He played for Team Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
Kalish was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, to Steve and Eileen Kalish, and is Jewish. His brother Ryan Kalish has played as an outfielder in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs. He grew up in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. While in middle school, he pitched the Jersey Shore Hurricanes U14-15 team to the 2006 championship of the United States Amateur Baseball League (USABL), a youth league headquartered in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
Kalish was a "star" pitcher at Red Bank Regional High School in Little Silver, New Jersey, from which he graduated in 2010. He was Division Pitcher of the Year both his junior and senior years. He also played football for the school as a freshman.
He then attended George Mason University, where he played for the Patriots. Kalish played for the Brewster Whitecaps in the summer Cape Cod Baseball League in 2012 as a college student. As a switch-hitter for George Mason, Kalish batted .301 in 39 games as a senior in 2015, and started 13 games in which he had a 3.44 ERA and 77 strikeouts (2nd in the Atlantic-10 Conference) in 83.2 innings. He was picked by the Kansas City Royals in the 32nd round of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft.
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