Jerome Williams

Bio

Williams dealt 11 seasons in Major League Baseball from 2003 to 2016. Starting his career with the San Francisco Giants from 2003 to 2005, he moved on to the Chicago Cubs in 2005 and 2006, the Washington Nationals in 2007, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2011 to 2014, the Houston Astros in 2014, the Texas Rangers in 2014, the Philadelphia Phillies in 2014 and 2015, and the St. Louis Cardinals in 2016. Williams finished his big league career with a 4.59 E.R.A., 52-66 record, and 655 strikeouts. The Coast are not the Hawaii-native's first stop in Long Beach, pitching in the Golden Baseball League in 2008 with the Long Beach Armada. His professional coaching career began in 2019 when the New York Mets hired him to be the pitching coach for their Short-Season Single-A team in Kingsport, T.N. In 2020, he was slotted to move up to the Single-A team in Columbia, S.C., but he instead coached at the alternate training site in Brooklyn after the cancelation of the minor league season. Spending 2021 with the Single-A St. Lucie Mets, Williams followed up in the Arizona Fall League with the Salt River Rafters. He moved up to the Mets Double-A affiliate, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, in 2022. Heading to the M.L.B. Draft League as the State College Spikes pitching coach in 2023, Williams helped bring forth the Yuba-Sutter Freebirds (then-YOLO High Wheelers) as the franchise's first-ever pitching coach, spanning the 2024 and 2025 treks. Signed with Long Beach on December 1, 2025.