BIOGRAPHY
Dean Kremer was born January 7, 1996, in Stockton, California. He is a pitcher in the MLB.
In international competition, Kremer pitched for the Team USA baseball team in the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning a gold medal. The following two years he pitched for Israel in the qualifying for the European Baseball Championship and won the Most Valuable Pitcher award in both 2014 and 2015. He also pitched in September 2016 in the qualifier for Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
Kremer pitched for San Joaquin Delta College in his freshman year in 2014 and was named a Third Team All-American. He was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 38th round of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft, becoming the first Israeli to ever be selected in the MLB draft, but chose not to sign. He was drafted again, this time by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 14th round of the 2016 Major League Baseball Draft, and did sign. He threw a fastball in the 92-95 mph range that sometimes reached 97 miles per hour (156 km/h), a slider, a curveball, and a splitter. He pitched for Team Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic. The Dodgers traded him to the Orioles at the 2018 trade deadline. In 2018, Kremer led all minor-league pitchers in strikeouts. He made his MLB debut in September 2020, becoming the first Israeli citizen to pitch in the major leagues.
In 2022, he was 8-7 with a 3.23 ERA, and his 8 wins were second-most on the Orioles staff. He pitched 22 games (21 starts), in which he pitched 125.1 innings. He relied mostly on his 94 mph fourseam fastball (34% of the time) and 88 mph cutter (31%), while also throwing an 84 mph changeup (15%), 76 mph curveball (12%), and 92 mph sinker (8%).
