(through 2024 season)
Samuel Trenton Long (born July 8,1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics. He played college baseball for the Sacramento State Hornets. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 18th round of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft. In 2018,at 23 years of age,he stopped playing baseball for a year and explored becoming a firefighter,but decided to stick with baseball and made his MLB debut with the Giants in 2021.
Long was born and raised in Fair Oaks,California. [1]
Long first attended Rosemont High School,for which he played baseball for two seasons. [2] He then attended Del Campo High School in Carmichael,California as a junior and senior. [2] He was all-league in baseball in 2012. [2] In 2013,he was 4–0 with an 0.88 earned run average (ERA) and 49 strikeouts with only one walk in