Austin Jones

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Austin Jones

• High School Fort Dorchester High School

• Born in Charleston, SC USA

Biographical Information

Austin Jones, who is from Charleston, SC, worked his first games as a major league umpire in 2024, with a total of 35 games as a call-up umpire.

He began his professional career as an umpire in the Gulf Coast League in 2014. He next worked in the 2015 Appalachian League, 2016 Midwest League and 2017-2018 Carolina League. He made it to AA with the 2019 Southern League. He worked the 2022 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers. In 2023, he was on a crew in AA alongside Jonathan Parra, who also made his major league umpiring debut in 2024, and Jen Pawol, the first woman umpire to reach AAA since Pam Postema 34 years earlier. Pawol became the first woman umpire in the majors one year later.

His twin brother, Tyler Jones, is also a professional umpire. The two worked one game together in the Gulf Coast League in 2014 and had a good chance of someday joining his brother in the major league umpire ranks as he was in AAA at the time of Austin's first big league game; indeed, he worked his first major league games in 2025. That year, Austin worked almost a full schedule in the majors - 122 games - as he was expected to be named to MLB's full-time umpire staff in the near future.

The Jones twins were already umpiring youth games while still in high school.

Further Reading

• John Denton: "Twin bill a fitting, and historic, debut as ump joins twin brother at MLB level", mlb.com, May 4, 2025. [1]
• Webb Wright: "Fort Dorchester alum makes MLB umpiring debut, twin brother could join him next season", WCIV ABC News 4, July 26, 2024. [2]
• Webb Wright: "Twin brother Fort Dorchester baseball alums now major league umpires", WCIV ABC News 4, May 5, 2025. [3]

Related Sites

• Austin Jones on Retrosheet.org