Biography and Early Life

Cole was born on 27th December in the year 1983 to Amanda Hamels and Gary Hamels. His birth city is San Diego of California. Cole was a brilliant student as well as an athlete during his school days. He has attended High School of Rancho Bernardo. He has three siblings, out of which he is the eldest one. The Philadelphia Phillies drafted Cole from his high school during the 1st round of MLB Draft in the year 2002. He initiated his sports career by playing in the Minor League System of Phillies.

Professional Career

Cole made his debut in the Major League on 12 May in the year 2006. After he had secured the position of starting rotation for the Phillies during his season of rookie for a long duration, he made some of his great strides during the MLB season of 2007. Along with the onset of the season 2015, speculations regarding trading of Cole started to appear. Many teams including Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers and New York Yankees showed their interest for Cole.

On 31st July in 2015, Cole and Jake Diekman were traded to the team of Texas Rangers. Infact, Cole became the 1st pitcher who was traded in an even season where he made a no-hitter during the final start along with that team which traded him. Cole has gathered many awards which include All – Star award for four different years (2007, 2011, 2012 and 2016). He was a member of the team who won the Championship of World Series for 2008. He had made a no-hitter on 25th July 2015 and pitched single no-hitter which was combined on 1 September in 2014. He became the Most Valuable Player during the World Series of 2008.

Personal Life

Cole got married to Heidi Strobelon 31 December 2006 at Springfield, Missouri of United States. He now lives in the beautiful city of Dallas, Texas along with his wife and children. His wifeHeidi Strobel participated in the 6th season of the reality show named “Survivor: The Amazon”. He has two boys named Caleb Michael and Braxton who were born on 9 October 2009 and 2 November 2011 respectively. The couple adopted an Ethiopian girl Reeve on 24 December 2012.

Cole is having Dutch ancestry. He is a philanthropist and started the Hamels Foundation during 2008. He and his wife run this organization who gives funds for conducting programs for children in Africa and Philadelphia. Cole has remained active on twitter and gained much attention in 2015 due to a particular tweet when speculation regarding his trading was doing the rounds in media. During 2015 his salary was around 8.361 million US dollars. As of now, his net worth is around $60 million.