:Jeff Bronkey

{{short description|Afghan-American baseball player (born 1965)}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Jeff Bronkey

|image=Jeff Bronkey - Visalia Oaks - 1988.jpg

|caption=Bronkey in 1988

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1965|9|18}}

|birth_place=Kabul, Kingdom of Afghanistan

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 2

|debutyear=1993

|debutteam=Texas Rangers

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=August 12

|finalyear=1995

|finalteam=Milwaukee Brewers

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=2–2

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.04

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=36

|teams=

Texas Rangers ({{mlby|1993}})
Milwaukee Brewers ({{mlby|1994}}–{{mlby|1995}})

}}

Jacob Jeffery Bronkey (born September 18, 1965) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched with the Texas Rangers and Milwaukee Brewers. He attended Klamath Union High School in Klamath Falls, Oregon and became Player of the Year and won a state championship in 1983.{{Cite web|title=Jeff Bronkey|url=http://www.oklahomafuelathletics.com/jeff-bronkey|access-date=2021-07-03|website=Fuel|language=en-US}}

He was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1983, but instead attended Oklahoma State University. He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins organization in 1986. After his career, he pursued a college degree in psychology and his daughter Sierra was a softball player at the University of Arkansas from 2011-2015.

He is the only Major League player born in Afghanistan.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/bio/Afghanistan_born.shtml Players by birthplace: Afghanistan Baseball Stats and Info] He was born in Kabul to an American mother and Afghan father.{{Cite web|last=DiManno|first=Rosie|date=2013-02-21|title=Blue Jays: Pitcher Hinshaw comes from exotic background|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/2013/02/21/blue_jays_pitcher_hinshaw_comes_from_exotic_background_dimanno.html|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Toronto Star|language=en}}