In 2014, he and Jerome Williams joined Brian Fisher (1990) and Sid Fernandez (1997) as the only Hawaiian-born players to ever pitch for the Astros. In 2018, Feldman was one of 42 players born in Hawaii to have made it to the majors. He was overweight in high school at one point he was up to 265 pounds (120 kg). Feldman led the Peninsula Athletic League in batting average in his junior year. He went to Lincoln Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate School, and later Burlingame High School in Burlingame, where he pitched a no-hitter. You always hope, but you just don’t know if it's ever going to happen." "You’d think about it as you were watching games in front of the TV, and you’d think about it playing in the neighborhood park with your friends. Īs for Feldman's road to the major leagues, "The dream started off like any other kid", Feldman said. "His second-grade teacher made a comment to my wife that it was like ' Alice in Wonderland,' because Scott was always too big for his seat", his father recalls. The 6-foot-5-inch (196 cm) Feldman was big from an early age. His father, an FBI agent who grew up in a Pennsylvania coal mining town and played college baseball at Duquesne, coached Feldman in youth baseball in Northern California. He is Jewish, as is his father, and the family belonged to Peninsula Temple Sholom in Burlingame for a period of time. As the Reds' Opening Day starter in 2017, he became one of 52 pitchers to have started Opening Day for at least three major league teams.įeldman was born in Kailua, Hawaii, and grew up in Burlingame, California. He was 17–8, tied for 4th in the American League in wins, and tied the major league record with 12 victories on the road. He established himself in 2009 with a breakout season for the Rangers. He followed it up with a minor league career in which he had a 2.70 ERA, and held batters to only 6.6 hits per 9 innings, pitching almost exclusively in relief.Īfter pitching out of the bullpen while bouncing back and forth between Texas and its Triple-A affiliate in 2005–07, Feldman converted to a starter in 2008. Feldman had Tommy John surgery later that year. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays, and Cincinnati Reds.Īfter going 25–2 in his first two years of college baseball, he was drafted in the 30th round by the Texas Rangers in 2003.
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Scott Wynne Feldman (born February 7, 1983) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.
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