Former San Francisco Giant Jeremy Affeldt: There Is Life After Baseball

Jeremy Affeldt, San Francisco Giants Pitcher 2008-2015; Philanthropist; Author, To Stir A Movement: Life, Justice and Major League Baseball
In conversation with Lenny Mendonca, Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors

Come out and meet a superstar athlete who has turned his attention to helping to solve problems off the field. Jeremy Affeldt is a major league baseball pitcher, philanthropist, humanitarian, public speaker and author. His baseball career spanned 14 years with the Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, Cincinnati Reds and the last seven years with the San Francisco Giants. He played on all three Giants World Champion teams—2010, 2012 and 2014. For his career, Affeldt has a record of 2-0, 0.86 ERA in 33 post-season games, the third-lowest in history among pitchers with at least 30 innings. He has 22 straight scoreless post-season appearances since allowing one run in Game 1 of the 2010 World Series. He retired from baseball on Sunday, October 4, 2015.

Jeremy is an active leader to end human trafficking and modern day slavery and is an advocate to support and feed the hungry at home and around the globe. He is the co-founder of Generation Alive, a non-profit organization that works to teach and inspire a generation of young people to act by serving others. In addition to being an author, he is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Medium.com. Come be inspired by Jeremy’s work on and off the field.