Allie LaForce Husband: Meet Joe Smith

Joseph Michael Smith is a free-agent American professional baseball pitcher who is married to Allie LaForce a journalist, model, and beauty pageant winner from the United States.

The couple met in 2011, while she was a Fox 8 News sports reporter and he was a pitcher in Cleveland.

Smith had noticed LaForce, so he enlisted pitcher Justin Masterson to find out everything he could about her during an interview she’d scheduled with him. “For every question I asked him, he asked me two questions,” she recalls.

Allie LaForce and Smith married on Jan. 17, 2015, at the United Methodist Church in University Circle. In lieu of wedding gifts, they asked their guests to donate to a Huntington’s disease research study conducted through the Cleveland Clinic.

Joseph Michael Smith has played for the New York Mets, Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners, and Minnesota Twins in Major League Baseball.

Smith attended Wright State University before being drafted in the third round of the 2006 Major League Baseball draft by the Mets. In 2007, he made his major league debut.