Ben Casparius

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Born
1999 (26 years old)
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Westport, Connecticut, USA

Position
Pitcher

Status
Active

Ethnicity
White

Team Number
78

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Baseball

Team
Los Angeles Dodgers

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MLB

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Benjamin Keith Casparius (born February 11, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Career
Amateur career
Casparius attended Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, where he set the state's all-time hits record and led them to a state title in 2017 while being awarded as the Connecticut Gatorade Player of the Year. He played college baseball at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for two years, where he was a two-way player. As a freshman he had a 1.69 ERA in 10 pitching appearances while collecting 18 hits and 15 RBI and helping them to a berth in the College World Series. The following season, he struggled a bit at the plate so the Tar Heels asked him to concentrate on pitching where he had a 4.41 ERA in 12 outings. After the season, he played collegiate summer baseball in both the Cape Cod League with the Falmouth Commodores, and in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.

He transferred to the University of Connecticut Huskies in 2020, but was denied a waiver and had to sit out his junior season, which wound up being cancelled anyway by the COVID-19 pandemic. He played instead in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League for the New Britain Bees and hoped to be selected in the 2020 MLB draft but because of its shortened length he was not chosen and opted to play for the Huskies in 2021. In 15 starts he was 8–5 with a 4.03 ERA.

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