Matt Festa
Matthew Joseph Festa (born March 11, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners. He has also played for the Italy national baseball team. Early life Festa was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in the Bulls Head and Great Kills sections of Staten Island, New York. He grew up a fan of the New York Yankees, idolizing Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter. Festa attended St. Joseph by the Sea High School, graduating in 2011. College He enrolled at Dominican College, where he played college baseball for the Dominican Chargers for one year, and transferred to East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, where he played college baseball for the East Stroudsburg Warriors for three years. Career The Seattle Mariners selected him in the seventh round, with the 207th overall selection, of the 2016 MLB draft. In 2016, Festa pitched for the Everett AquaSox of the Low-A Northwest League, posting a 6–2 win–loss record with a 3.73 earned run average (ERA) in 14 games (eight starts). Festa pitched for the Modesto Nuts of the High-A California League in 2017, where he went 4–2 with