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Jon Moscot
Jonathan Solomon Moscot (Hebrew: ג'ון מוסקוט; born August 15, 1991) is an American-Israeli former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds in 2015 and 2016, and played internationally for Team Israel.
Moscot was drafted by the Reds in the fourth round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. In 2013, his 140 strikeouts were the most of any Reds minor league pitcher. In 2014, pitching for the Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos, he was named a Southern League Mid-Season All-Star. In 2015, after logging a 7–1 record with a 3.15 ERA for the Triple-A Louisville Bats, he was promoted to the majors and made his major league debut at the age of 23. In 2016 he underwent Tommy John surgery. He joined the Reds as a pitching coach in both Rookie Ball and Triple-A.
In 2018, he became a dual Israeli citizen. He pitched for Team Israel at the 2019 European Baseball Championship. He also pitched for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He pitched for Team Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the summer of 2021.
Moscot was born in Santa Monica, California, and raised in Pacific Palisades, California. He is Jewish, and his parents are Elliot and Kathy Moscot. His father grew up attending yeshiva and walking to synagogue every weekend, and his mother converted to Judaism. As he grew up, he attended Hebrew school and attended Chabad services. Extended family of his, including an uncle, lives in Jerusalem and Efrat.
Moscot has two younger brothers; his youngest brother Jed, a pitcher who had an 0.87 ERA his senior year in high school and played baseball at the University of California, Davis, and for the 2019 and 2021 seasons at Bradley University, and his brother Josh, who graduated from UCLA in 2015. His uncle Bob Reif was a starting quarterback for Princeton University.
Moscot had a small part at age 13 in the 2006 sports comedy film The Benchwarmers. He attained the Boy Scout rank of Eagle Scout.
He graduated in 2009 from Palisades Charter High School in Los Angeles. In high school Moscot pitched and played third base, batting .415 (.600 in his freshman year) and pitching with a 2.10 earned run average (ERA) and 230 strikeouts, as his team won four consecutive Western League titles and had a 48–1 record against league opponents from 2007 to 2009. He was twice named Western League MVP and All-City pitcher, and received the Palisades Post award for Most Outstanding Athlete.
Moscot attended Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California, from 2009 to 2010. He pitched for the Cougars in the spring of 2010, had a 6–2 record with a 2.01 earned-run average, and was named to the all-Western State North first team.
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Jon Moscot
Jonathan Solomon Moscot (Hebrew: ג'ון מוסקוט; born August 15, 1991) is an American-Israeli former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds in 2015 and 2016, and played internationally for Team Israel.
Moscot was drafted by the Reds in the fourth round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. In 2013, his 140 strikeouts were the most of any Reds minor league pitcher. In 2014, pitching for the Double-A Pensacola Blue Wahoos, he was named a Southern League Mid-Season All-Star. In 2015, after logging a 7–1 record with a 3.15 ERA for the Triple-A Louisville Bats, he was promoted to the majors and made his major league debut at the age of 23. In 2016 he underwent Tommy John surgery. He joined the Reds as a pitching coach in both Rookie Ball and Triple-A.
In 2018, he became a dual Israeli citizen. He pitched for Team Israel at the 2019 European Baseball Championship. He also pitched for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He pitched for Team Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the summer of 2021.
Moscot was born in Santa Monica, California, and raised in Pacific Palisades, California. He is Jewish, and his parents are Elliot and Kathy Moscot. His father grew up attending yeshiva and walking to synagogue every weekend, and his mother converted to Judaism. As he grew up, he attended Hebrew school and attended Chabad services. Extended family of his, including an uncle, lives in Jerusalem and Efrat.
Moscot has two younger brothers; his youngest brother Jed, a pitcher who had an 0.87 ERA his senior year in high school and played baseball at the University of California, Davis, and for the 2019 and 2021 seasons at Bradley University, and his brother Josh, who graduated from UCLA in 2015. His uncle Bob Reif was a starting quarterback for Princeton University.
Moscot had a small part at age 13 in the 2006 sports comedy film The Benchwarmers. He attained the Boy Scout rank of Eagle Scout.
He graduated in 2009 from Palisades Charter High School in Los Angeles. In high school Moscot pitched and played third base, batting .415 (.600 in his freshman year) and pitching with a 2.10 earned run average (ERA) and 230 strikeouts, as his team won four consecutive Western League titles and had a 48–1 record against league opponents from 2007 to 2009. He was twice named Western League MVP and All-City pitcher, and received the Palisades Post award for Most Outstanding Athlete.
Moscot attended Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California, from 2009 to 2010. He pitched for the Cougars in the spring of 2010, had a 6–2 record with a 2.01 earned-run average, and was named to the all-Western State North first team.
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