Jack O'Loughlin
Jack Te Haki O'Loughlin
- Bats Left, Throws Left
- Height 6' 5", Weight 210 lb.
- Born March 14, 2000 in Adelaide, South Australia Australia
Biographical Information[edit]
Jack O'Loughlin pitched for the Australian national team before making his major league debut in 2024.
O'Loughlin was signed by Detroit Tigers scouts Kevin Hooker and Glenn Williams in July 2016. [1] He pitched regularly for the Adelaide Bite in the 2016-2017 Australian Baseball League at age 16, going 3-3 with a 3.02 ERA. He was 2-0 with a 0.69 ERA and 15 K in 13 IP in the 2017 U-18 Baseball World Cup, beating Nicaragua's Angel Obando and Cuba's Osvaldo Cárdenas. He tied Matthew Liberatore, Ryan Weathers, Ginji Miura, Jun-won Seo and Soma Tokuyama for the event lead in wins, was 10th in IP (no one with more innings had a better ERA) and tied for 10th in whiffs (with Jun-young Ha, Michele Vassalotti and Marlon Pérez). [2]
He slumped in the 2017-2018 ABL, going 2-1 with a 7.04 ERA and doubling his walks (7 to 14) while his IP fell from 41 2/3 IP to 23. He made his US debut in 2018, going 0-1 with a save and a 4.35 ERA for the Connecticut Tigers, whiffing 25 in 20 2/3 innings. Returning to Connecticut in '19, he had a 2-4, 3.13 record while being in the regular rotation. He started a combined no-hitter against the Tri-City ValleyCats, succeeded by Michael Bienlien, Kyle Thomas and Kory Behenna. He worked the first six. [3] The 2020 minor league season was wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Adelaide native split 2021 between the West Michigan Whitecaps (2-1, 3.54 in 5 G), Lakeland Flying Tigers (3-0, 2.19 in 8 G) and FCL Tigers East (0-1, 2.25 in 1 G), for a combined 5-2, 2.64 record. He was 2-1 with a 4.01 ERA for West Michigan in 2022, pitching mainly in relief. Back with the Bite in 2022-2023, he had a 3.27 ERA and no decisions in seven starts. He then made Australia's roster for the 2023 World Baseball Classic. He was the third-youngest pitcher on the team, after Will Sherriff and M's farmhand Blake Townsend. [4] He battled Young-pyo Ko of South Korea with two perfect innings (retiring Tommy Edmon, Ha-seong Kim, Jung-hoo Lee, Byung-ho Park, Hyun-soo Kim and Kun-woo Park) before Mitch Neunborn took over in an upset win. He retired seven out of eight Czech national team batters in his next outing, allowing only a Petr Zýma single; Neunborn let the inherited runner score. O'Loughlin's .21 WHIP was third in the event, behind only José De León and Se-woong Park. [5] That summer, he pitched for West Michigan (3-3, 2.17 in 9 G) and the Toledo Mud Hens (3-7, 4.78 in 18 G), making it to AAA. He was 5th in the Tigers chain in K (118) but tied Zach Logue for the most losses. He allowed 3 runs in 5 innings for Adelaide in the 2023-2024 ABL.
Following the 2023 season, he was signed as a minor league free agent by the Oakland Athletics. He began 2024 in AAA with the Las Vegas Aviators. He was 1-2, 5.12 in 10 games when he was called up to Oakland (with Ross Stripling going on the injured list and Brandon Bielak being designated , making his major league debut on May 26th in relief against the Houston Astros. He pitched the final three innings of a 5-2 loss, relieving Tyler Ferguson and allowing just two hits and a walk and picking up a pair of strikeouts. He retired his first batter, Yordan Alvarez, and got his first K against Jon Singleton.
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