Jackson Wolf

Jackson David Wolf (born April 22, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Amateur career
Wolf attended Lincoln High School in Gahanna, Ohio, where he played baseball. He went unselected in the 2017 Major League Baseball draft and enrolled at West Virginia University where he played college baseball.

During the summer of 2019, Wolf played in the Cape Cod Baseball League with the Cotuit Kettleers. As a senior at West Virginia in 2021, he started 14 games and went 6-5 with a 3.03 ERA and 104 strikeouts over 89 innings. Following the end of the season, he was selected by the San Diego Padres in the fourth round with the 129th overall selection of the 2021 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the team for $300,000.

San Diego Padres
Wolf split his first professional season in 2021 between the Arizona Complex League Padres and the Lake Elsinore Storm, posting a 3.00 ERA and 24 strikeouts over 15 innings. He opened the 2022 season with the Fort Wayne TinCaps, starting 22 games and going 7-8 with a 4.01 ERA and 134 strikeouts over 119 innings. He was later promoted to the San Antonio Missions near the season's end with whom he made two starts.

He returned to San Antonio to begin the 2023 season. In 17 starts, Wolf logged an 8–8 record and 3.39 ERA with 104 strikeouts in 85.0 innings of work. On July 22, 2023, Wolf was selected to the 40-man roster and promoted to the major leagues for the first time. He started and won that day's game, pitching 5 innings and giving up 3 runs in a 14-3 Padres rout of the Detroit Tigers in Detroit. Despite his reasonably successful outing, Wolf was immediately sent back down to the minors the next day.

Pittsburgh Pirates
On August 1, 2023, the Padres traded Wolf, Alfonso Rivas, and Estuar Suero to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for Ji-man Choi and Rich Hill. He made 8 starts for the Double–A Altoona Curve, logging an 0–4 record and 4.25 ERA with 30 strikeouts across 36.0 innings pitched. Wolf was optioned to Double–A Altoona to begin the 2024 season. However, he was designated for assignment following multiple roster moves on March 28, 2024.

San Diego Padres (second stint)
On April 2, 2024, Wolf was traded back to the San Diego Padres in exchange for Kervin Pichardo.