Colton Gordon
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1998 (26 years old)
Saint Petersburg, Florida, U.S.Position
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Colton Zimring Gordon (born December 20, 1998) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). Gordon played college baseball at Hillsborough Community College and the University of Central Florida (UCF). He was selected by the Astros in the eighth round of the 2021 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut in 2025. He pitched for the Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
Early life
Gordon was born and had his bar mitzvah in St. Petersburg, Florida, where his father Steve Gordon lives. He is Jewish, and attended Hebrew school. He grew up playing T-ball and Little League at Fossil Park in St. Petersburg. He also grew up in Bradenton, Florida, with his mother, and went to Haile Middle School. Gordon was a fan of the Tampa Bay Rays growing up.
High school and college
Gordon attended and played baseball at Lakewood Ranch High School in Bradenton. In his senior year he was 4-2 with a 1.21 ERA, as in 52.0 innings he had 77 strikeouts. He was ranked the # 6 left-handed pitcher in Florida coming out of high school.
He played college baseball first at Hillsborough Community College in 2019 (7-4 with a 2.44 ERA), and attended but did not play baseball as he redshirted at the University of Florida. Gordon then pitched for the University of Central Florida (UCF), with whom in 2020 he was 2-0 with a 2.35 ERA. In 2021 he was 5-2 with a 2.77 ERA and 72 strikeouts in 55.1 innings, with a strikeout/walk ratio of 5.54 (4th-best in the American Athletic Conference).
He underwent Tommy John surgery in May 2021 during his senior year at UCF, and was named Second Team All-Conference and to the AAC All-Academic Team despite missing half the season. Despite the injury and surgery two months prior, he was drafted by the Houston Astros in the eighth round of the 2021 Major League Baseball draft, and signed for a signing bonus of $127,500.
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