Jake Rabinowitz

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  • Bats Right, Throws Right
  • Height 6' 4", Weight 220 lb.

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Biographical Information[edit]

Jake Rabinowitz has played in the Extraliga and for the Czech national team. Oddly, he had coaching or managerial roles for two countries before suiting up as a player for the Czechs.

Rabinowitz hit .455 as a high school junior, going 4-3 with a 2.00 ERA and 61 K in 42 IP. [1] He hit only .146 as a college freshman then moved to the mound, going 1-2 with a 5.02 ERA as a sophomore followed by 3-2, 5.15 as a junior and 3-7, 7.80 as a senior. [2] He came to play for the Tempo Titans Praha in the Czech Republic in 2014 and was their top hitter and pitcher. He produced at a .333/.448/.540 clip with 32 RBI in 35 games and was 9-3 with a 2.94 ERA (the rest of the staff was 3-20). He tied Jakub Malík for 6th in the Extraliga in homers (5), was 5th in RBI (between Petr Čech and Aleš Navrátil), tied Jiří Marek and Jakub Hajtmar for 5th in doubles (11), tied for 5th in extra-base hits (16), was 5th in walks (26), ranked 5th in ERA (between Rick van Dijck and Daniel Vítek), placed 7th in WHIP (1.27), was 9th in K/IP (between Steven Chambers and Petr Minařík), had the 4th-best K:BB ratio (3.5:1), led in Ks (by 10) and tied Chambers for the win lead. [3] He capped the year by coaching for Israel when they won the 2014 C-Level European Championship. [4]

In 2015, he had his best offensive season at .403/.500/.643 with 38 RBI in 35 games. He stole 11 bases in 14 tries. On the mound, he fell to 6-7, 5.42. He was among the leaderboards in home runs (tied for 6th with Tomáš Juněc, Daniel Vavruša and Marek), RBI (tied Vavruša for 4th), hits (52, tied David Vohánka for 4th), average (6th, between Matěj Hejma and Marek), OBP (4th, between Přemek Chroust and Daniel Mráz), steals (tied for 6th), strikeouts (72, 3rd, behind Jan Tomek and Martin Červenka), wins (tied Bradley Merritt for 7th) and losses (tied for 2nd, 4 behind Ryo Ose). [5] He coached for Israel in the 2015 B-Level European Championship. [6] He fell to .341/.428/.524 with 33 RBI in 35 games, finishing 9th in RBI (tied with Alex Derhak and Martin Schneider). He had a 3-7, 6.03 record. He was 7th in strikeouts (73, between Marek Minařík and Jason Jarvis) and tied Matěj Hušek for second in losses. [7]

Rabinowitz was the Titans' top batter in 2017 (.315/.380/.460) and was 3-7 with a save and a 3.72 ERA on the mound. He was 9th in the league in batters fanned and tied for third in losses. [8] His offensive numbers dropped to .267/.348/.433 in '18 but he pitched much better (6-2, 1.87, 94 K in 77 IP). He was 8th in the league in ERA, second in strikeouts and tied for third in wins (with Wes Roemer and Tomáš Duffek). [9]

Jake was 2-5 with a 4.25 ERA for the 2019 Titans and hit .320/.424/.427 with 28 RBI in 27 contests. He tied Dominic Piazza for 7th in walks (17), was 10th in RBI and 10th in strikeouts (51). [10] He managed the first Czech women's national team, at the 2019 European Women's Championship. [11] In 2020, he batted .321/.422/.509 with 16 RBI in 18 games in a season shortened by COVID-19. On the mound, he was 3-3 with a 6.43 ERA. He was 9th with 35 K, between Lukáš Hlouch and Lukáš Ercoli. [12]

In '21, he was 1-8 with two saves and a 4.27 ERA and hit .262/.366/.328. He led in losses and tied for fifth in saves. [13] He coached for the Czechs in the 2021 U-15 European Championship. [14] He was 2-1 with a save and a 2.31 ERA during 2022 and was barely batting (1 for 5) at age 34.

Through 2022, he had struck out 780 batters in the Extraliga (including the postseason), putting him 5th all-time behind only some native Czechs - Petr Minařík, Leoš Kubát, Boris Bokaj and Duffek. He was 18th in wins (46), between Hušek and Jakub Jonák and 2nd in losses (62, behind Jiří Šimek). Part of his record reflects that he has spent his career with a Titans team that has not been a major competitor. [15]

In the 2022 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers, he was the only member of the Czech team not to be born in the Czech Republic (or its predecessor, Czechoslovakia). His one appearance was not a memorable one (at least in a good way). Relieving Daniel Padyšák with already a 9-2 deficit against Spain in the 5th, he walked Edison Valerio then struck out Lesther Galván for the only out he would register. Gabriel Lino drew a four-pitch walk, Oscar Angulo singled and Engel Beltre walked to force in a run. Noelvi Marte singled in a pair then Justin Connell singled, followed by a two-run single by Jesús Ustariz. Filip Čapka relieved and all the runners would score, saddling him with a 189.00 ERA. Among pitchers who retired a batter, he had the highest ERA in the qualifiers (Juan Elorza was next at 162) - six pitchers were at infinite (Kevin Townend, Kenjiro Sugiura, Keive Rojas, Ryota Okumoto, Eugene Gay and Armando Dueñas Jr.). [16] The Czechs still won a spot in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, their first World Baseball Classic.

Sources[edit]

  1. ↑ Fordham bio
  2. ↑ ibid.
  3. ↑ Baseball-stat.cz
  4. ↑ 2014 C-Level European Championship
  5. ↑ ibid.
  6. ↑ 2015 B-Level European Championship
  7. ↑ Baseball-stat.cz
  8. ↑ ibid.
  9. ↑ ibid.
  10. ↑ ibid.
  11. ↑ 2019 European Women's Championship
  12. ↑ Baseball-stat.cz
  13. ↑ ibid.
  14. ↑ 2021 U-15 European Championship
  15. ↑ Baseball-stat.cz
  16. ↑ World Baseball Classic


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