[1] Jaime Bluma was born in Beaufort, South Carolina and later raised in Owasso, Oklahoma where he played high school baseball.

[3] He attended Wichita State University where he set several records for the Shockers baseball program, and is still the schools all-time leader in saves and appearances.

[4] Jaime Bluma was a seventh round pick by the Houston Astros in the 1993 MLB draft but chose not to sign and returned for his final year of college.

[3] The next year he was a third round pick by the Kansas City Royals in the 1994 Major League Baseball draft and signed in early June.

Bluma pitched twenty innings in seventeen appearances as a Royal, earning five saves while giving up eighteen hits, two home runs, and striking out fourteen batters for a 3.60 ERA.

Jaime Bluma turned to coaching after leaving the pitchers mound, serving as assistant general manager of the Old Ball Game training academy from 2001 to 2006.