American baseball player Luke Richard Maile plays catcher for the Major League Baseball team Cleveland Guardians. He is currently 33 years old and was born on February 6, 1991, in Edgewood, Kentucky.
He had previously played for the Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, and Milwaukee Brewers. At Covington Catholic High School, Maile participated in baseball; he later attended the University of Kentucky before turning professional.
The Red Sox selected Maile in the 43rd round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft, but he turned down their contract offer because it wasn’t good enough.
In order to play college baseball for the Kentucky Wildcats squad, Maile made the decision to matriculate at the University of Kentucky.
The Tampa Bay Rays selected Maile in the eighth round at 272nd overall in the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. For the whole 2012 campaign, he was a member of the Short Season-A Hudson Valley Renegades.
On April 6, 2017, the Toronto Blue Jays selected Maile off waivers. Following Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s assignment, Maile was recalled from the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on April 28.
The Pittsburgh Pirates and Maile came to an agreement on December 16, 2019. Maile was categorically removed from the 40-man roster in October. On December 8, 2020, Maile and the Milwaukee Brewers agreed to a one-year contract.
Maile made his Brewers debut on April 30, 2021, entering the game as a pinch-runner and playing catcher the entire time.
Luke Maile agreed to a one-year, $900,000 deal with the Cleveland Guardians on March 14, 2022, which featured a $900,000 guaranteed minimum wage. As of 2022, he is expected to have a net worth of $2 million, which includes the money he has made playing baseball.