Tom Jacquez

Thomas Patrick Jacquez (born December 29, 1975 in Stockton, California) is a former professional baseball player. A left-handed pitcher, he played part of one season in Major League Baseball in 2000 for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Jacquez was drafted by the Phillies in the 1997 amateur draft. He played for the minor-league Piedmont Boll Weevils, Batavia Clippers, Clearwater Phillies, Reading Phillies, and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons before being called up to the Phillies in September 2000.^[1] Jacquez pitched in nine games for the Phillies in September 2000, earning an earned-run average of 11.50.

After 2000, Jacquez played in the minor leagues for several seasons. He played for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in 2001 before joining the Chicago White Sox farm system for the 2002 season. That year Thomas had season ending Tommy John surgery. Jacquez played for the Charlotte Knights and Great Falls White Sox over 2002 and 2003. He entered the Baltimore Orioles farm system and played for the Bowie Baysox in 2004, after which he voluntarily retired from pro baseball due to shoulder injury.

Thomas returned to get his college degree and graduated with honors in 2005 with a BA from University of San Francisco (USF) . From 2005-2014, he worked at a private, independent college preparatory high school, The Urban School of San Francisco, where he coached baseball and taught Spanish and Service Learning. He has also served as a site director for seven years with Aim High, a San Francisco educational non-profit that provides summer academic and social learning opportunities for low income middle school youth. He now serves on the Aim High Board of Trustees. Thomas earned his MA in 2013 from USF and has been accepted as a doctoral student. His nickname, "Hawk" was given to him by his host family while playing in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Cotuit Kettleers in 1996.

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• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube