| Josh Zeid | |||||||||||||||
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 Zeid in 2016 | |||||||||||||||
| Pitcher | |||||||||||||||
| Born: March 24, 1987 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| July 30, 2013, for the Houston Astros | |||||||||||||||
| Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| July 24, 2014, for the Houston Astros | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Win–loss record | 0–1 | ||||||||||||||
| Earned run average | 5.21 | ||||||||||||||
| Strikeouts | 42 | ||||||||||||||
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Joshua Alexander Zeid (/zaɪd/ ZYDE; Hebrew: ג'וש זייד; born March 24, 1987) is an American-Israeli former professional baseball pitcher and current coach. He plays for Team Israel. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros.
Zeid played for the gold-medal-winning Team USA Youth National Team in 2003. In his senior year in high school he was named Gatorade Connecticut High School Player of the Year, and Baseball America ranked him the nation's 27th-best prospect. He was drafted in the 10th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft, and in 2010 he was named a South Atlantic League midseason All-Star, and won the MiLB Best Reliever (Class A–Full Season) Award. He debuted in the major leagues with the Houston Astros in 2013.
He pitched for Team Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic, and was named to the 2017 All-World Baseball Classic team. His fastball reached 97 mph.
After retiring from major league baseball, Zeid joined the Chicago Cubs front office as a pitching analyst. In November 2019, he obtained Israeli citizenship so that he could play for Team Israel in baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He pitched for Team Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the summer of 2021.