Taylor Jungmann

Taylor Heath Jungmann was born in Temple, Texas and attended Rogers High School before transferring to Georgetown High School for his senior year. Jungmann starred in both basketball and baseball. The Los Angeles Angels selected the right-handed pitcher in the 24th round of the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft, but he elected to attend the University of Texas instead. After three seasons at the U of T, he was picked 12th overall in the first round of the 2011 MLB Draft by the Brewers. Jungmann won the Dick Howser Award as the best collegiate baseball player in 2011.

Jungmann spent three full seasons in the minors before getting called up to the Brewers in June 2015. He won his first game, pitching seven innings (three hits, one run) in a 4-1 win at Pittsburgh. It was his best season, as Jungmann won nine games and pitched to an ERA+ of 105 and a FIP of 3.92 in 21 starts.

He started the 2016 season in Milwaukee, but after losing four of his first five starts, was sent down to Triple-A Colorado Springs. After struggling in eight starts (.9.87 ERA), he was reassigned to Double-A Biloxi, where he regained his form with a 2.51 ERA in 13 starts. He returned to Milwaukee in September where he pitched two perfect innings in relief before losing in a start toward the end of the season.

The lanky (6-foot-6, 210-pound) Jungmann pitched in his final big-league game in April 2017, facing six batters and giving up two hits, a hit batsman, and a walk in a 6-1 mop-up win over Colorado. Jungmann was optioned to Biloxi and later pitched with Colorado Springs to finish the season. He was given his release by the Brewers in January 2018.

Jungmann pitched in Japan in 2018 and 2019, winning a combined 19 games. He was signed to a minor league contract by the Texas Rangers but was released during the Covid pandemic in June 2020.

• His Rogers HS team won the Texas 2A state title his junior year
• Led the Longhorns in wins two of his three years
• His 356 career strikeouts rank sixth in UT history