Josh Zeid
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Zeid with the Houston Astros in 2014
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| Free agent | |||
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Born: March 24, 1987 New Haven, Connecticut |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 30, 2013, for the Houston Astros | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2014 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 0–1 | ||
| Earned run average | 5.21 | ||
| Strikeouts | 42 | ||
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Joshua Alexander Zeid (pronounced "Zide"; born March 24, 1987) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He previously played for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB) and for the New Britain Bees of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
Zeid played for the gold-medal-winning Team USA Youth National Team in 2003. In his senior year in high school he was named Gatorade Connecticut High School Player of the Year, and Baseball America ranked him the nation's 27th-best prospect. He was drafted in the 10th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft, and in 2010 he was named a South Atlantic League midseason All-Star, and won the MiLB Best Reliever (Class A – Full Season) Award. He debuted in the major leagues with the Houston Astros in 2013.
Zeid was born to Ira (a dentist) and Karen Zeid (who works at a senior center) in New Haven, Connecticut, and is Jewish. As a child he had a bar mitzvah and went to Hebrew school three days a week. He always wears a Star of David around his neck and a chai, and as to being Jewish, he said: “If you become a successful athlete, you should let people know where you’re from.”
In January 2013 he married the former Stephanie Tiedemann, a doctor of neuropsychology at The University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, and a former Vanderbilt (2007) and Florida Institute of Technology (Masters/Doctor of Psychology) student.
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