Eric Brodkowitz is an

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free agent professional

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. He plays for the

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. Pitching for the

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, he was named to the 2018 First Team All-

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Team as a unanimous selection. In 2021, he has pitched for the

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of the Pioneer League. Brodkowitz is also a

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analyst with

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Early and personal life

Brodkowitz was born in

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. He is Jewish, had a bar mitzvah, and went to Israel on

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. His parents are Ken and Jill Brodkowitz, and he has two younger siblings. His father pitched and played outfield and first base for

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."Olympic Pitcher’s Jewish Warm-Up With Chabad at Yale; Team Israel baseball player Eric Brodkowitz talks about his Jewish growth on campus"
/ref> He attended Winston Churchill High School (Class of 2014), where he played baseball and was First Team All-Division in his junior and senior seasons, and All-Gazette and All-Met honorable mention in junior season. As a pitcher in his high school career he was 5-4 with a 1.36 ERA. He played for the Gaithersburg Giants in the

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during the summers of 2014 and 2015. In October 2018 Brodkowitz became a dual Israeli citizen, partly to help the Israel baseball team make the

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College

Brodkowitz attended

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, double majoring in economics and molecular, cellular, and developmental biology with a concentration in

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. He pitched for the

. He was named 2015

Rookie of the Week on April 21 and to the 2015 Ivy League Weekly Honor Roll on March 31. He was also named 2017 and 2018 first team All-American (D-I) by the ''

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'', and to the 2018 First Team All-Ivy Team as a unanimous selection. Brodkowitz finished his senior season with a 2.76 ERA (leading the league) in 84.2 innings pitched (2nd in the Ivy League), as he led the conference with six wins without a loss, with a 1.028

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(5th).

Minor leagues

In 2021, he has pitched for the

of the Pioneer League.

Israel national team

Brodkowitz competed on the

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for qualification for the

. He started two games as the team played in the

2019 European Baseball Championship - B-Pool 2019 European Baseball Championship - B-Pool was the second tier of Confederation of European Baseball men competition. It featured 14 teams, competing in two groups of 6 and 8 teams in early July 2019. The two group winners, Team Israel and Team ...

in early July 2019 in

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, winning all of its games and advancing to the playoffs against Team Lithuania in the 2019 Playoff Series at the end of July 2019 for the last qualifying spot for the

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. He was 1-0 with a 5.79 ERA, as in 9.1 innings he struck out 15 batters, tops in the tournament. He pitched for Team Israel in the

. He also pitched for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play

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in Tokyo.

Career outside baseball

Brodkowitz is a healthcare

analyst with

References

External links

*Career statistics and player information fro
Baseball Reference"“In the Clubhouse with the Nats Report” with Israel National Baseball Team Player Eric Brodkowitz,"
the Nats Report, March 30, 2021 {{DEFAULTSORT:Brodkowitz, Eric Baseball players from Maryland Jewish American baseball players Living people Israeli American Israeli baseball players 1994 births People from Potomac, Maryland Baseball pitchers Yale Bulldogs baseball players 2019 European Baseball Championship players Goldman Sachs people 21st-century American Jews Idaho Falls Chukars players