Jacob Lemoine is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Bridge City High School in Bridge City, Texas, is where Lemoine went to high school. The Texas Rangers selected him in the 21st round of the 2012 MLB draft, placing him 666th overall, but he declined to sign with them.
He spent three years at the University of Houston, where he played college baseball for the Cougars, from 2013 to 2015. He was a member of the 2014 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, pitching for them and going 2–2 with a 2.45 ERA in 18+13 innings pitched.
A right shoulder injury he sustained in his junior year of 2015 kept him out of the field for only five games that season. The Texas Rangers selected him in the fourth round of the 2015 MLB draft, 108th overall, and signed him to a $528,000 bonus agreement.
In 2015 and 2016, Lemoine was sidelined due to rotator cuff surgery on his right shoulder, which left him unable to play in any professional games.
With the Hickory Crawdads of the Class A South Atlantic League, he made his professional debut in 2017, going 3–4 with a 2.96 ERA in 70 innings.
A Class A-Advanced Carolina League Downeast wood duck, he went 3-4 with a 2.40 earned run average in 56 innings last year.
Jacob Lemoine Parents: Who Are Jacob Lemoine Parents?
Professional baseball pitcher Jacob Lemoine’s parents remain unknown. Jacob himself has not yet shared any information about his mother and father.