Daulton Compton is a Jefferies is a Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher for the Oakland Athletics of the United States of America.
California Golden Bears were his collegiate team. The Athletics selected him with the 37th overall choice in the 2016 MLB draft, and he made his Major League Baseball debut in 2020 with the A’s organization.
At Buhach Colony High School in Atwater, California, Jefferies played both shortstop and pitching.
At the time, Jefferies was a standout pitcher in the Central California Conference, where he went 8-0 with a 1.26 earned run average (ERA) while striking out 366 times in 485 at-bats to go along with his MVP honors as a junior.
He was the Central California Conference’s MVP for the second time in his senior year after going 10-2 with a 0.92 ERA and a school-record 142 strikeouts.
It was during his junior year of high school that Jefferies had a verbal agreement to play baseball for Stanford University; unfortunately the offer fell through, and Jefferies was left with little choice but to find a new school.
In 2014, Jefferies made 15 starts for the California Golden Bears and went 2–8 with a 3.45 ERA with 58 strikeouts in 92+23 innings, which led the team.
First-team All-Pac-12 honors were Jefferies’s reward after a stellar sophomore season in which he appeared in 14 games, starting 13, and compiled a 6–5 record and 2.92 ERA.
How Tall Is Daulton Jefferies?
Daulton Jefferies’s height is 1.83 m.