Jonathan Lucroy

Believer, Servant, Husband, Father, and washed-up backstop. Supporter of all things military. Former Lousiana Ragin Cajun and Team USA Baseball Alum.

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

good swings kid. keep it up!

[Jesus leon @Jesusleon2027]

#2💣 of the summer in the WWBA national championship. We keep working 🔥🇻🇪

@GFCSBSB @JLucroy20 @29BarfieldKnows @DulinsTX_Cowser @akherrera7 @GoFaithLions @elvisgallegos31 @PG_Scouting

[Jesus leon @Jesusleon2027]

#2💣 of the summer in the WWBA national championship. We keep working 🔥🇻🇪

@GFCSBSB @JLucroy20 @29BarfieldKnows @DulinsTX_Cowser @akherrera7 @GoFaithLions @elvisgallegos31 @PG_Scouting

[Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns® Baseball @RaginCajunsBSB]

Induction time for @JLucroy20 at the @LaSportsHall

#GeauxCajuns | #WaterHoseBoys

[Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns® Baseball @RaginCajunsBSB]

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction time for Jonathan Lucroy

#GeauxCajuns | #WaterHoseBoys | @JLucroy20 | @CoachDeggs28

[Louisiana Sports HOF @LaSportsHall]

The Class of 2026 is ready for their big weekend in Natchitoches!

[Al Quartemont @al_quartemont]

Congrats to @JLucroy20 on being inducted into the @LaSportsHall this weekend! Nice to meet you and thank you for the auto! Geaux, Brew Crew!

[Louisiana Sports HOF @LaSportsHall]

The Class of 2026 getting more love on stage on the eve of their induction ❤️

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

Very honored to be apart of this.

[Louisiana Sports HOF @LaSportsHall]

The Class of 2026 is ready for their big weekend in Natchitoches!

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

@AAGDhillon @USEEOC 🇺🇸🙏🏻

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

@BradZiegler @MLB

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

I know people that know him and have worked directly with him. I have been told he is fair, and treats people well.

Also, I didn't realize you are the arbiter of marriages and childcare. Maybe go look into a mirror.

He isn't perfect, but I've seen his kids with him many times in public appearances.

Keep casting those stones, I promise one will come back at you eventually.

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

As stone thrower myself at times, please read 1 John 8:7. You don’t know his personal relationship with his family, and you don’t know what is in his heart. I encourage you, as a believer, to remember that every sin is equal in God’s eyes, and none of us are worthy, nor will we ever be, regardless of our “works.” Like you, I spend all the time with my wife and kids, and I’m still messed up. I don’t believe that comparing yourself to others in any way is healthy. We have all done it, but as believers we have to remember we should only be comparing ourselves to Jesus. Which we all fall way short of.

I find that focusing on someone’s strengths and the good they do is the best way to walk through life. Not that I’ve always done that.

Like how Jesus treated the woman at the well, or Mary Magdalene, or Peter, or Paul. Like King David.

God uses messed up people. Is God using Elon? Not sure but I think he uses all of us even if we don’t believe. Daniel 2:21

[Jon Elder @BlackLabelAdvsr]

Elon Musk is the first trillionaire but I’m 100x richer.

Unlike Elon, I have one wife and actually know my kids. I’m home every night and never miss a meal with them.

I also know where I’m going after I die because Jesus Christ is my Savior. Elon has no such assurance.

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

@21ynot I agree with that. I don't agree with the holier than thou, judgemental approach.

#1 enemy of Christianity is Christians.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

If you’re gonna force players to wear the rainbow, don’t get mad when they teach you what the rainbow actually means.

It’s not a celebration of sin, it’s a covenant with God’s people.

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

@shegone03 @MLB @notgaetti I've never used mine. I also have only attended 7-8 games since I retired. The games I did go to were either for special events or hosting my sons youth teams for BP and the game.

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

LET'S EDUCATE PEOPLE WITH ACTUAL NUMBERS....

The media loves headlines about @elonmusk becoming a "trillionaire."

But most people don't understand what that number actually means.

Let's break it down.

If Elon Musk is worth roughly $1 trillion on paper:

❌ It does NOT mean he has $1 trillion in cash.

❌ It does NOT mean he can spend $1 trillion tomorrow.

❌ It does NOT mean the government could simply seize $1 trillion and spend it.

Most of that wealth exists as ownership in companies.

Think about it this way:

If your home is worth $500,000, you don't have $500,000 sitting in your bank account.

You own an asset.

The same principle applies to company shares.

Now let's compare some numbers.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

The U.S. federal government spends roughly $7 trillion per year.

Even if Elon somehow sold every share he owned tomorrow and turned it all into cash (which is impossible), that money would fund Washington's spending for only about 7 weeks.

Read that again.

7 weeks.

Not years.

Not decades.

7 weeks.

ELON'S 2021 TAX BILL

In 2021 Elon paid approximately $11 billion in federal taxes.

The median American household pays around $2,000-$5,000 annually in federal income taxes depending on income and family situation.

To equal Elon's $11 billion tax bill, you'd need roughly:

✅ 2.2 million households paying $5,000 each

OR

✅ 5.5 million households paying $2,000 each

That's more households than exist in many U.S. states.

JOB CREATION

Tesla employs over 120,000 people globally.

SpaceX employs more than 15,000 people.

X, xAI, Neuralink, and Musk's other companies employ thousands more.

Directly and indirectly, Musk's companies support hundreds of thousands of jobs.

✅ Those workers pay taxes.
✅ Buy homes.
✅ Support local businesses.
✅ Raise families.

That's how wealth circulates through an economy.

WHAT ABOUT "TAX THE BILLIONAIRES"?

Let's do the math.

The U.S. national debt is now over $40 trillion.

Suppose the government somehow confiscated an entire $1 trillion fortune.

That would eliminate only about:

2.5% of the national debt.

The other 97.5% would still be there.

A spending problem cannot be solved by a one-time wealth seizure.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

America has approximately:

🇺🇸 340 million people

🇺🇸 34 million businesses

🇺🇸 A $30+ trillion economy

The reason America became the most prosperous nation in history wasn't because government bureaucrats created wealth.

It was because entrepreneurs, inventors, builders, investors, and workers created wealth.

✔️ The smartphone in your pocket.
✔️ The internet.
✔️ Amazon.
✔️ Google.
✔️ Microsoft.
✔️ Tesla.
✔️ SpaceX.

Most of the technologies that transformed modern life came from capitalist innovation, not socialist central planning.

Yet some politicians act like success itself is the problem.

No.

The problem isn't that America produces billionaires.

The problem is that America isn't producing enough future millionaires.

A healthy economy should create more owners, more investors, more entrepreneurs, and more opportunity.

Because every billionaire started as a millionaire.

Every millionaire started with a first dollar.

And every thriving economy starts by rewarding people who create value for others.

🇺🇸 America became great by creating wealth.

Not by punishing the people who create it.

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

@derektranCA45 Uncle

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

I agree with you there. Money printing is a serious issue. They collateralize the printer with our economy.

How would you measure it then? Elon employs 130k Americans across his company. He enriches his employees by letting them access stock in his companies.
Not only that but his companies provide internet service from space to the middle of no where, they provide cars and transportation services, satellites, rockets are 70% cheaper.

I wish the government would copy his model tbh.

That’s a pretty solid measure of value IMO.

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

@alsodanlowe The problem isn’t his.

[Ron Rule @ronrule]

If the federal government took 100% of Elon’s wealth, it would only fund the government for 52 days.

Then it’s gone, and there’s nothing left to take.

The problem isn’t trillionaires.

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

Such a cool story of resilience and grit. Never stop building and fighting for what you believe. He’s made so many of his employees wealthy as long as they provide value and work for it. Everyone gets a seat at the table if they want it bad enough.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

SpaceX nearly went bankrupt in 2008, and yesterday it IPO'd at $1.77 trillion.

Here's the story of the largest ever IPO and the world's first Trillionaire, Elon Musk.

Elon Musk sold his first company, Zip2, for $300 million in 1999. He then co-founded PayPal, which eBay acquired in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Musk walked away with roughly $180 million.

Most people would have stopped there. Instead, he became obsessed with getting humans to Mars. When he looked into buying rockets from Russia and found the costs too high, he decided to build his own.

In March 2002, he founded SpaceX in California and put roughly $100 million of his own money into it.

SpaceX operated out of a warehouse in El Segundo where employees worked 80 to 100 hour weeks. The company hired young engineers willing to take risks and built almost everything in house, a decision that would later become its biggest competitive advantage.

One of its most important early hires was Gwynne Shotwell, who joined in 2002 as employee number 7 and became the operational backbone of the company.

The first three launches of Falcon 1 all failed. The first in March 2006 ended in an engine fire. The second in March 2007 spun out of control before reaching orbit.

The third in August 2008 saw the first and second stages collide after separation.

2008 was the worst year. SpaceX and Tesla were both near bankruptcy during the global financial crisis. Musk split his remaining personal fortune between both companies, betting everything on their survival. Employees feared neither would survive.

On September 28, 2008, Falcon 1 Flight 4 lifted off from Omelek Island in the Pacific. It reached orbit. SpaceX became the first privately funded company in history to put a liquid-fueled rocket into orbit.

Three months later, NASA awarded SpaceX a Commercial Resupply Services contract worth over $1 billion. The company was saved.

With funding secured, SpaceX built Falcon 9, which launched successfully in 2010 and went on to become the most frequently launched rocket in the world.

SpaceX has now completed more than 300 missions and reduced the cost of sending payload to orbit from $54,500 per kilogram on the Space Shuttle to roughly $2,700 per kilogram on Falcon 9.

In December 2015, SpaceX landed a Falcon 9 booster for the first time in history after years of failed attempts. Reusable rockets went from an industry joke to standard practice.

In May 2020, SpaceX sent astronauts to orbit aboard Crew Dragon, making it the first private company in history to put humans in space on its own spacecraft.

SpaceX then launched Starlink, a satellite internet network that now serves more than 6 million subscribers worldwide and has become one of the company's largest revenue streams. Revenue across the company reached $18.7 billion in 2025.

Then Musk made his next move.

In February 2026, SpaceX acquired his AI company xAI and filed plans with the FCC to launch one million solar-powered satellites into orbit.

The goal is to build the world's first space-based AI data center network. Each satellite would generate power directly from the sun, eliminating the need for ground-based energy infrastructure entirely.

Musk's argument is direct: "The only logical solution is to transport these resource intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space."

He expects that within 2 to 3 years, the lowest cost way to generate AI compute will be in space.

Starship is the prerequisite to making this work at scale. Without a fully reusable heavy lift rocket capable of carrying large payloads cheaply, space based data centers are not economically viable.

Musk stated that IPO proceeds from the SPCX listing will help fund this buildout.

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin and Google's Project Suncatcher are both working on similar plans , but SpaceX is the only company with a rocket capable of launching at the scale required.

The ultimate goal remains Starship, a fully reusable rocket designed to carry more than 100 tons to orbit and eventually take humans to Mars.

Yesterday, SpaceX listed on Nasdaq under the ticker $SPCX at a $1.77 trillion valuation. At that price, Musk's personal stake in SpaceX alone is worth over $866 billion, making him the first person in history to cross $1 trillion in net worth.

Elon Musk currently controls SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, X Corp, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

It started with one warehouse, $100 million, and a rocket that failed three times in a row.

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

Halfway to 80. Blessed beyond belief and grateful for my family and friends. Also thankful to the fans (especially @Brewers fans) of our wonderful game which has allowed me to experience things I don’t feel worthy of most of the time.

Thank you to my X followers who have followed along and supported along the way. The game wouldn’t be worth playing without you all.

-Luc

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