Jackson Wolf #49

Is a 2017 graduate of Lincoln (Ohio) High School, where he played baseball, golf and basketball...Played for West Virginia University, where he was a teammate of Pirates 2023 fourth-round pick Carlson Reed in 2021...Pitched for Santa Barbara in the California Collegiate Summer League after his freshman year of college...Attended Columbus Clippers (Guardians’ Triple-A) growing up in Ohio...Rooted for the Cincinnati Reds as a kid when Ken Griffey Jr. played for the team...Admired fellow left-handers Randy Johnson and Aroldis Chapman as a kid, and ended up being teammates with Chapman during MLB Spring Training in 2024 with the Pirates.

2025

Began the season with Double-A San Antonio, where he posted a 3.24 ERA (nine ER, 25.0 IP) across six appearances (five starts)...between SA and Triple-A El Paso, posted career highs in wins (nine) and starts (27) and his 128.2 IP were one inning shy of his career-high 129.2 from 2022 between San Antonio and High-A Fort Wayne...Transferred to Triple-A El Paso on May 6 and worked exclusively as a starter, making 22 turns in the Chihuahuas rotation with a 7-3 record, 5.47 ERA (63 ER, 103.2 IP) and 103 SO against 44 walks...Owned a 1-0 record with a 3.68 ERA, .246 BA against and a 10.52 SO/9 IP through his first six starts with ELP from May 8-June 7...His season-long ERA rose to 7.77 after allowing 26 ER across four starts from June 13-July 1, allowing a .444 BA against...Earned his first weekly/monthly award, earning Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Week on Aug. 24...Went 5-1 with a 2.53 ERA across an eight-start stretch from July 9-Aug. 28...Seven of his 12 ER allowed during that stretch came on Aug. 8 vs. Oklahoma City due to a career-high five HR surrendered...Went 1-1 with a 6.88 ERA (13 ER, 17.0 IP) across his final four September starts, allowing two ER in three of those four starts and seven of his 13 total ER allowed in September coming in one start (Sept. 3 at Salt Lake)...Allowed two ER-or-fewer in 16 of his 27 starts, including one ER-or-fewer in 11 starts and zero ER six times.

2023

Went a combined 8-13 with a 4.13 ERA (124.1ip/57er), 32 walks allowed and 135 strikeouts in 26 starts between San Antonio (Padres’ Double-A) and Altoona…Ranked 13th among all pitchers at the Double-A level in strikeouts, tied for sixth in games started, tied for ninth in innings pitched, third in WHIP (1.11) and eighth in batting average against (.229)…Began the season with San Antonio…Struck out a career-high 11 batters on 7/7 vs. Corpus Christi…Earned the win (5.0ip/3r) in his Major League debut on 7/22 at Detroit, which was approximately 200 miles from his hometown of Gahanna, Ohio…Was leading all Padres minor leaguers in strikeouts (105) at the time he was promoted to the big leagues (also ranked fourth among all Texas League pitchers at the time he was promoted)…Was optioned back to San Antonio on 7/23… Was acquired by Pittsburgh from San Diego along with Alfonso Rivas and Estuar Suero on 8/1 in exchange for Rich Hill and Ji Man Choi (was rated as San Diego’s No. 16 prospect by MLB Pipeline at the time he was acquired by Pittsburgh)… Made his organizational debut on 8/6 vs. Richmond and struck out five batters in 4.2 innings for the Curve.