Simon Rosenbaum (baseball)

Rosenbaum was born and grew up in Los Altos Hills, California. He has two younger brothers, His paternal grandfather was born in Germany. In baseball, he was an All-League selection his junior and senior seasons. He is 6' 6", and 230 pounds (198 cm, 104 kg). ==College==

Rosenbaum then attended Pomona College, where he played on its NCAA Division III baseball team the Pomona Sagehens as a pitcher and infielder, and double-majored in Mathematics and Economics. As a sophomore in May 2014 Rosenbaum was named to the NCAA Division III Capital One District 8 Academic All-District Team. In 2014 he was named an All American and SCIAC Player of the Year, as well as a member of the SCIAC Baseball All-Academic Team and West Region Player of the Year. In the summer of 2014 he played for the Wenatchee AppleSox of the West Coast League. He was named 2015 All-SCIAC First Team, and named a 2015 Jewish Sports Review College Baseball All-American with, among others, first baseman/outfielder Jeremy Wolf and designated hitter/pitcher Jake Fishman. For his senior thesis, he evaluated the impact of the Major League Baseball collective bargaining agreement on the first-year player draft. For his college career he batted .376 with 23 home runs, 64 doubles, and over 160 RBIs, while pitching to a 7-3 record. In 2015 Rosenbaum played for the Vermont Mountaineers of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. He batted .245/.288/.327 with no home runs and six RBIs in 49 at bats. ==Brussels Kangaroos==

After college, Rosenbaum was a player/coach for the Brussels Kangaroos in Belgium. ==Team Israel==

Rosenbaum plays for the Israel National Baseball Team. In the summer of 2014 Rosenbaum played for Israel at the 2014 European Pool C Championships qualifying round in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at which Israel won the tournament. He also played for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He played right field and DH and batted .133/.167/.133 in the tournament. ==Tampa Bay Rays scout and coordinator ==

In 2017 Rosenbaum was an advance scouting intern with the Tampa Bay Rays. ==See also==