{{short description|Israeli-American baseball player}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name = Dean Pelman |image = |caption = |width = |team = Israel National Baseball Team |number = |position = Pitcher |birth_date = 1995<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/profile.asp?ID=182689 Dean Pelman - The Baseball Cube<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |birth_place = Weston, Florida |bats = Right |throws = Right |debutleague = MLB |debutdate = |debutyear = |debutteam = |statyear = |statleague = |stat1label = |stat1value = |stat2label = |stat2value = |stat3label = |stat3value = |awards = |teams = }} '''Dean Pelman''' (born 1995) is an Israeli-American free agent professional baseball pitcher. He plays for the Israel National Baseball Team. He pitched for Team Israel at the 2019 European Baseball Championship. He also pitched for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

==High school and college== Pelman was born in Weston, Florida, and is Jewish. In 2012 he was throwing a 91 mile per hour fastball.<ref name=autogenerated2>[https://www.perfectgame.org/Players/Playerprofile.aspx?ID=275897 "Dean Pelman Class of 2013 - Player Profile,"<!-- Bot generated title -->] Perfect Game USA.</ref> He attended American Heritage High School, class of 2013, in Plantation, Florida, where he was a Rawlings/Perfect Game Preseason Florida Region Second Team before his senior year, and was ranked the No. 31 Perfect Game right-hander in Florida in the Class of 2013 Final Rankings.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name=autogenerated2 /><ref name=autogenerated3>[https://floridagators.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=429 "Dean Pelman - Baseball - Florida Gators"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In 2013 he was throwing a 93&nbsp;mph fastball.<ref>[http://www.elitesquadbaseball.org/2012/10/23/pelman-commits-to-uf/ "Pelman Commits to UF!!!!,"<!-- Bot generated title -->] Elite Squad Baseball.</ref>

In 2015 he pitched at Polk State College.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Pelman enrolled at the University of Florida, where he majored in Social and Behavioral Sciences and pitched for Florida Gators.<ref name=autogenerated3 />

==Team Israel== Pelman competed on the Israel national baseball team for qualification for the 2020 Olympics.<ref>[https://www.baseball.org.il/en/english-news/495-team-israel-opens-its-bid-to-reach-the-olympics-at-the-european-championships-b-pool IAB - Israel Association of Baseball - "Team Israel Opens its Bid to Reach the Olympics at the European Championships B Pool"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Sports/Dont-bet-against-blue-and-white-stepping-up-to-plate-in-Olympic-qualifying-595026 "Don’t bet against blue-and-white stepping up to plate in Olympic qualifying,"<!-- Bot generated title -->] ''The Jerusalem Post''.</ref>

He pitched for Team Israel at the 2019 European Baseball Championship, in which Pelman made three relief appearances and pitched three innings in which he gave up six earned runs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseballstats.eu/2019/bonn/games/isr.htm |title=EUROPEAN Championship A-Pool - Israel |publisher=Baseballstats.eu |date= |accessdate=2019-09-23}}</ref> He also pitched for the team at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019, which Israel won to qualify to play baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/israels-moves-step-closer-to-2020-olympics/ |title=Moving on up|author=Scott Barancik |work=Jewish Baseball News |date=2019-09-13 |accessdate=2019-09-23}}</ref>

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