Luke Wilkins

Luke Wilkins was born on 27 December 1989 and is an Australian former professional baseball pitcher from Sydney. After years with New South Wales at junior level he went overseas in 2008 to Clarendon College in Texas, a division 1 junior college. He made his Australian Baseball League debut at age 20 with the Canberra Cavalry and from the 2011-12 season pitched for his hometown Sydney Blue Sox. In 2013 he posted an earned run average of 0.28 in 21 relief appearances, though he fell four innings short of the league minimum for recognised statistics. Across ten league seasons and 104 appearances he went 21-17 with a 3.96 earned run average. He also pitched in the Frontier League and the American Association, was picked for the Australia national team at the 2019 WBSC Premier12, and in 2024 pitched for the Amsterdam Pirates in the Dutch Hoofdklasse before announcing his retirement on 1 March 2025.