Blayne Enlow

Blayne Chanlar Enlow (born March 21, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the San Francisco Giants organization.

Amateur career
Enlow attended St. Amant High School in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Before his sophomore year of high school, he broke an ankle and his pelvis in a car accident. He returned to play baseball in his junior year. During his senior year, he played for the USA Baseball 18-and-under team. He committed to attend Louisiana State University (LSU) to play college baseball for the LSU Tigers.

Minnesota Twins
The Minnesota Twins selected Enlow in the third round, with the 76th overall selection, of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Twins, receiving a $2 million signing bonus, and was assigned to the Gulf Coast Twins of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League. He spent all of his first professional season with in the GCL, posting a 3–0 record with a 1.33 ERA in $20 1⁄3$ innings. He spent 2018 with the Cedar Rapids Kernels of the Single–A Midwest League, going 3–5 with a 3.26 ERA over twenty games (17 starts).

Enlow returned to Cedar Rapids to begin 2019 and was promoted to the Fort Myers Miracle of the High–A Florida State League in May. Over 21 games (twenty starts) between the two clubs, Enlow went 8–7 with a 3.82 ERA and 95 strikeouts over $110 2⁄3$ innings. Enlow did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned to action in 2021 with Cedar Rapids (now members of the High-A Central. He made three starts before it was announced he would be undergoing Tommy John surgery, thus ending his season.

On November 19, 2021, the Twins added Enlow to their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. Enlow returned to action in 2022, spending the majority of the season with the Double-A Wichita Wind Surge. In 24 appearances for Wichita, he posted a 1–3 record and 4.40 ERA with 3 saves and 64 strikeouts in 57.1 innings pitched. On January 6, 2023, Enlow was designated for assignment by the Twins following the waiver claim of Oliver Ortega. On January 13, he was outrighted to Double-A Wichita. Enlow split the 2023 season between Wichita and the Triple–A St. Paul Saints. He appeared in a combined 26 games (22 starts) and posted a 5–6 record and 5.35 ERA with 109 strikeouts in $99 1⁄3$ innings pitched. Enlow elected free agency following the season on November 6.

San Francisco Giants
On December 14, 2023, Enlow signed a minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants.