Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Jake Meyers was born June 18, 1996, in Omaha, Nebraska. He is an outfielder in the MLB.

Meyers was selected in the 13th round by the Houston Astros in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft. After signing with the team he was assigned to the Tri-City ValleyCats. Meyers was assigned to the Class A Quad Cities River Bandits to start the 2018 season before being promoted to the Buies Creek Astros of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League. He returned to the Carolina League with the renamed Fayetteville Woodpeckers at the beginning of the 2019 season, where hit batted .258 with eight home runs and 41 RBIs and was named a Mid-Season All-Star before being promoted to the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks. He was a non-roster invitee for the Astros in spring training in 2020 before it, and later the minor league season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He opened the 2021 season with the Sugar Land Skeeters.

On July 31, 2021, Houston selected his contract and promoted him to the active roster. Meyers made his Major League debut on August 1, 2021, as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning of a 5-3 loss to the San Francisco Giants.

In Game 1 of the 2022 ALDS, Meyers appeared as a pinch runner in the ninth inning and scored the lead run on a Yordan Álvarez three-run walk-off home run, for an 8–7 final over the Seattle Mariners. It was the first walk-off home run in an MLB postseason contest with the home team down to their final out in the ninth inning and trailing by more than one run.