Jon Rauch

Jon Rauch was a right-handed pitcher who won a gold medal with the 2000 USA Olympic baseball team, and then played for 10+ years in Major League Baseball (MLB). At 6-11 (2.11 m) he was the tallest player in MLB history to that time.

Rauch played college baseball at Morehead State University where he majored in physics and business. He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the third round of the 1999 MLB Draft. In 2000 Rauch was pitching with the Winston-Salem Warthogs when he was named to the Olympic team.

Rauch made his MLB début in April 2022 with the White Sox but was shipped back to the minors for 2003 and came back to the Sox in 2004. From 2004-08 he was with the Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals, then played with the Arizona Diamondbacks (2008-09), the Minnesota Twins (2009-10), the Toronto Blue Jays (2011), the New York Mets (2012), and the Miami Marlins (2013). He pitched in the minor leagues in 2014 but retired after that season.