About Matt Festa

Matthew Joseph Festa (born March 11, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, and Texas Rangers. 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. He graduated from St. Joseph by the Sea High School in 2011.

College
He enrolled at Dominican College, where he played college baseball for the Chargers for one year, and transferred to East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, where he pitched for the East Stroudsburg Warriors for three years. He majored in business management. Festa was an All-America selection at ESU in 2016.