Eric Brodkowitz
Eric Brodkowitz | |
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| Born | May 14, 1996 Potomac, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Professional baseball pitcher, investment banking analyst |
| Known for | Baseball pitcher for Israel national baseball team; First Team All-Ivy League (2018) |
Eric Brodkowitz (; born May 14, 1996) is a professional baseball pitcher holding dual American-Israeli nationality and currently a free agent. He represents the Israel national baseball team internationally. During his collegiate career with the Yale Bulldogs, he earned unanimous selection to the 2018 First Team All-Ivy League. In 2021, he was a pitcher for the Idaho Falls Chukars competing in the Pioneer League. Beyond baseball, Brodkowitz is employed as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs.
Early and personal life
Born in Potomac, Maryland, Brodkowitz is of Jewish heritage, having celebrated his bar mitzvah and participated in a Birthright trip. His parents are Ken and Jill Brodkowitz; his father played collegiate baseball at Johns Hopkins University, serving as both pitcher and outfielder/first baseman.
He graduated from Winston Churchill High School in 2014, where he earned First Team All-Division distinctions during his junior and senior years, along with All-Gazette and All-Met honorable mention accolades as a junior. As a high school pitcher, he recorded a 5-4 win-loss record with an ERA of 1.36. During the summers of 2014 and 2015, he competed with the Gaithersburg Giants in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League.
In October 2018, Brodkowitz secured Israeli citizenship to aid the Israel national baseball team’s campaign to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games.
College
At Yale University, Brodkowitz pursued a double major in economics and molecular, cellular, and developmental biology with an emphasis on biotechnology. Pitching for the Yale Bulldogs, he received Ivy League Rookie of the Week and Weekly Honor Roll recognitions in 2015. He was honored as a first team Division I All-American by the Jewish Sports Review in both 2017 and 2018, and was unanimously named to the First Team All-Ivy League in 2018. Concluding his senior year, he led the Ivy League with a 2.76 ERA over 84.2 innings pitched, achieved six wins without any losses, and maintained a WHIP of 1.028.
Minor leagues
In 2021, Brodkowitz took the mound for the Idaho Falls Chukars, a team competing within the Pioneer League.
Israel national team
Brodkowitz represented the Israel national baseball team during their attempt to qualify for the 2020 Olympics. In the 2019 European Baseball Championship - B-Pool held in Bulgaria, he started two games contributing to Israel’s undefeated run that advanced them to playoff contention against Lithuania for entry into the 2019 European Baseball Championship. Over 9.1 innings pitched, he recorded a 1-0 record with a 5.79 ERA while striking out 15 batters—the highest strikeout total of that tournament.
He continued to pitch for Team Israel during the main phase of the 2019 European Baseball Championship and participated in the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy. Israel’s victory there secured their qualification for baseball competition at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career outside baseball
Outside athletic pursuits, Brodkowitz is employed as an analyst specializing in healthcare investment banking at Goldman Sachs.
External links
- Comprehensive career stats and player details available at Baseball Reference
- "In the Clubhouse with the Nats Report" spotlighting Israel National Baseball Team athlete Eric Brodkowitz, published by the Nats Report on March 30, 2021
- Baseball players from Montgomery County, Maryland
- Jewish American baseball athletes
- Living people
- Israeli baseball athletes
- 1994 births
- Sports figures from Potomac, Maryland
- Baseball pitchers
- Yale Bulldogs baseball team members
- 2019 European Baseball Championship competitors
- Goldman Sachs employees
- 21st-century American Jews
- Idaho Falls Chukars players
- Jews from Maryland
- Goldman Sachs people