Alexander Miller Cobb (born October 7, 1987), better known by his nickname Swan, is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants (MLB).
He was picked in the fourth round of the 2006 MLB draft by the Tampa Bay Rays, and he made his MLB debut in 2011. From 2011 to 2017, he was a member of the Rays, the Baltimore Orioles from 2018 to 2020, and the Los Angeles Angels in 2021.
Cobb was born to Lindsay Miller-Cobb and Rick Cobb, an accountant, in Boston, Massachusetts. He spent his first two years of life in North Reading, Massachusetts, before moving to Vero Beach, Florida, with his family owing to a job.
Cobb spent three years of spring training with the Los Angeles Dodgers at Holman Stadium in Vero Beach as a batboy. He grew up rooting for the Boston Red Sox.
Cobb throws four pitches: a sinker (his most-used pitch in 2021), a four-seam fastball (his second-most-used pitch in 2021), a splitter in the upper 80s, and a knuckle curve in the low 80s. In 2021, splitters accounted for over half of his deliveries with two strikes.
Alex Cobb signed a 2 year / $20,000,000 contract with the San Francisco Giants, Cobb earns a base salary of $9,000,000 in 2022.