Quinn Mathews

Nationality

United States

Born

2000-10-04

Height

6' 5"

Weight

188 lbs

Number

#60

Quinn Jack Mathews (born October 4, 2000) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2026. Amateur career Mathews attended Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo, California where he played baseball. He went unselected in the 2019 Major League Baseball draft and enrolled at Stanford University where he played college baseball. As a freshman for Stanford in 2020, Mathews pitched 21 innings before the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the 2021 season, Mathews went 5-2 with a 6.08 ERA over 66+2⁄3 innings. That summer, he played in the Cape Cod Baseball League with the Cotuit Kettleers. With Stanford in 2022, Mathews appeared in 27 games and went 9-2 with a 3.08 ERA and 111 strikeouts over 99+1⁄3 innings. He was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 19th round of the 2022 Major League Baseball draft but did not sign. For the 2023 season, Mathews went 10-4 with a 3.75 ERA and 158 strikeouts over 124+1⁄3 innings and was named the Pac-12 Conference Pitcher of the Year. In a Super Regional game versus the Texas Longhorns, he threw a 156-pitch complete game in which he struck out 16 batters in an 8-3 Stanford win.