Ex-Hamden Pitcher Signs With St. Louis Cardinals

By Jack Kramer, Correspondent

HAMDEN, CT – A former Hamden Hall Country Day School star pitcher has parlayed his dominating performance in the World Baseball Classic into getting another shot at major league baseball.

Josh Zeid, the star of the Israel team in the WBC, signed a minor league baseball contract with the St. Louis Cardinals this week.

Zeid pitched a total of 10 shutout innings in the classic, including four scoreless innings as a starting pitcher, even though he is normally used as a relief pitcher, in the team’s last game.

Zeid, on his twitter account, said he was “super excited to get the next journey of 2017 going” by signing with the Cardinals. “It’s been special so far,” he tweeted.

The 30-year-old pitcher, whose fastball tops out at 96 mph, said this on his twitter account about the WBC – “The tournament was the single best baseball experience of my life. I loved every second of WBC baseball.”

Zeid was born to Ira (a dentist) and Karen (who works in a senior center) in New Haven.

Zeid has pitched for several minor and major league baseball teams, most recently in 2016 he pitched with the Double-A affiliate of the New York Mets.

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