Ben Meyer

Benjamin K. Meyer, known as Ben Meyer, was born on January 30, 1993, and is an American former professional baseball pitcher who reached Major League Baseball with the Miami Marlins. He attended Totino-Grace High School in Fridley, Minnesota, then pitched four seasons at the University of Minnesota, where he struck out 219 batters in 288 innings with a 3.07 earned run average, and spent the summer of 2013 with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League. The Marlins chose him in the 25th round of the 2015 draft and moved him up through their farm system until his major league debut on June 7, 2018, one scoreless inning of relief against the St. Louis Cardinals. He later signed with the Colorado Rockies organization in 2019 and was released in 2021 without playing a game that season.