Baseball Welcomes Buckeyes for Four-Game Stand

PHOENIX -- Sun Devil Baseball continues its season-opening homestand this weekend with a four-game series on deck against Ohio State, beginning Thursday, Feb. 22 at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. Thursday and Friday's games are scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. AZT first pitch, followed by a 1 p.m. AZT tilt on Saturday and a Nooner on Sunday.

FOLLOW THE ACTION

• The opening tilt will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Network on Thursday with Daron Sutton on the call. The games Friday through Saturday will be stramed live through the ASU live streams throughout the remainder of the weekend.
• Friday game will be broadcast live over local airwaves on KDUS 1060 AM with Tim Healey and Max Rossiter providing the highlights.
• Fans are always encouraged to follow the Sun Devil Baseball team on social media  for any program or schedule updates throughout the week on the Sun Devil Baseball Twitter account: @ASU_Baseball.

#10THINGS (Twitter-Friendly Notes)

1. SCU coach Rusty Filter, known as one of the elite pitching coaches in baseball, hadn't had a team he coached on give up 3 straight 10+ runs since 2006.

2.  Isaiah Jackson's 13 RBIs in 4 games this season are notable as he didn't his 13th RBI until his 29th game last season.

3. Last week, Thomas Burns became the first true freshman to start on Opening Night at ASU since Ike Davis did so in 2006.

4. All-WCC SCU pitcher Blake Hammon gave up just 13 earned runs in 46.1 innings last year. ASU scored seven against him  in 3.1 innings this weekend

5.  SCU starter Brandon Gomez allowed just 21 total earned runs last year in 54.0 innings (3.50 ERA). The Sun Devils tagged him for seven in 2.0 innings

6. Jacob Tobias has posted a team-leading 59 RBIs last season, notable as he had just 29 for the season in 2022.

7. The Sun Devils trailed at some point in 19 of the team's last 24 victories dating back to the 2023 campaign.

8. Ryan Campos has reached base safely in 84-of-93 (90.3%) of games with the Sun Devils overall has a 14-game reached base streak

9. Seven Sun Devils have at least 7 homers last season - the kost of any ASU team since at least '98. After 3 games, already 4 have multiple homers.

10. The Sun Devils were the only team in the Pac-12 with eight different players with six or more homers last season.

BY THE NUMBERS
87 - Ryan Campos has reached base in a ridiculous 83-of-93 (90.3%) career games with the Sun Devils overall, and all three games this weekend. Campos holds the 23rd-highest active career batting average at .363, a tally that is third among all FBS catchers. The junior has seven RBIs in his last two games and has reached base in all four games and 14 straight games dating back to last season. Campos entered the season as D1Baseball's 10th-ranked catcher in the country and No. 95 collegiate prospect for the 2024 MLB Draft.
27 - The Sun Devil Baseball features 27 new faces to start the year and many made an impact opening weekend. Harris Williams, who ranks in the Top-50 among active D1 players in career games, bat .389 with two homers and 7  RBIs. RS freshman Brandon Compton bat .462 with three doubles and a homer. Kevin Karstetter posted a .467 average on the week. Ethan Mendoza has started his career with six consecutive hits. 12 different pitchers made their Sun Devil debuts, including six true freshman - notable as the team started the '22 campaign with NO freshmen on the roster.
11 - The Sun Devils currently sit in the Top-40 in the nation in 11 different categories through Opening Weekend, the majority on the offensive end. The squad ranks fourth in homers (11) and sixth in homers per game (2.75). ninth in slugging percentage (.671), second in hits (56), 15th in batting average (.368), eighth in doubles (13) and 16th in doubles per game (3.25), 18th in scoring (11.8), 11th in runs (47) and 33rd in on-base percentage (.459). The pitchers pounded the strike zone all weekend, posting a 11.5 strikeouts per nine innings, good for 36th in the nation.
5 - Santa Clara had five pitchers toss against ASU that had earned some form of All-WCC team honor in their careers. All five of those players (August Souza, Cade Pilchard, Blake Hammond, Cole Kitchen and Brandon Gomez) gave up more runs in their outing against ASU than they had in a single game in their entire careers. Last season, Santa Clara led the WCC in team ERA, WHIP, and held opponents to a .244 average for the season. In the three-game series, ASU has forced the Santa Clara pitching staff into a 12.96 ERA with a 2.44 WHIP and posting a .390 average.

LAST TIME OUT: SANTA CLARA/KANSAS STATE

• The Sun Devils went 3-1 through Opening Weekend and their first midweek tilt of the year, taking two of three from Santa Clara before downing No. 24 Kansas State on Tuesday. ASU reached double digit hits in all four games and its nine-run effort against the Wildcats was the only contest where the team didn't manage double-digit runs.
• ASU won nine games when trailing by three or more runs a year ago. Despite erasing several such leads in the finale against Santa Clara, it was unable to come away with the win. The team did, however, bounce back from an early 3-0 deficit against K-State to win that contest.
• Santa Clara Opening Night starting pitcher Cade Pilchard had never given up more than six runs in a game, and only allowed seven earned runs over 26.2 innings in his last five appearances of last year. In 31 appearances and over 80 innings pitched, he had only given up more than three runs twice. He allowed six earned runs in the first three innings tonight and eight total for the game.
• In Game 2, Santa Clara starter Brandon Gomez allowed just 21 total earned runs last season in 54.0 innings of work (3.50 ERA). The Sun Devils tagged him for seven in 2.0 innings of action. On the same token, SCU's second pitcher of the game Blake Hammond earned All-WCC honors last season, going 6-1 with a 2.53 ERA and allowing just 13 earned runs on the season in 46.1 innings. The Sun Devils posted seven earned runs against him in 3.1 innings today.
• In Game 3, Santa Clara starter Cole Kitchen came into the game with a 3.93 ERA in 217.1 innings pitched. Arizona State tagged him with seven earned runs in only 2.1 innings. The seven earned runs are the most allowed by Kitchen in his 52-career appearances. The Sun Devils enjoyed similar success off an equally accomplished pitcher when right-hander August Souza came into relief. Souza posted a 1.69 ERA in 32.0 innings pitched in 2023, leading the Broncos with five saves. Arizona State plated three earned runs off of him in 4.1 innings. He did not allow more than two earned runs in 12 appearances a season ago.
• Last season, Santa Clara led the WCC in team ERA, WHIP, hits allowed per nine and walks allowed per nine and held opponents to a .244 average for the season. In the three-game series, ASU has forced the Santa Clara pitching staff into a 12.96 ERA with a 2.44 WHIP and posting a .390 average.
• To take it a step further, the Sun Devils were matched up with long-time Stanford (2010-17) and San Diego State (1994-2009) pitching coach Rusty Filter, who is now the head coach at Santa Clara. The last time a Rusty Filter coached team gave up double digits runs in three-straight games is back from March 12-18, 2006 (six games) when he was the pitching coach at San Diego State.

ON DECK: OHIO STATE

• The Sun Devils lead the all-time series over Ohio State, 9-2.
• The Buckeyes went 2-1 at the MLB Desert Invitational to open the 2024 season. Ohio State fell to Boston College, 9-2, in the opening game of the tournament before bouncing back to defeat BYU, 7-2, and USC, 5-2. OSU dropped its midweek tilt at Grand Canyon, 10-3.
• Through four games, Tyler Pettorini leads the Buckeyes at the plate, batting .333.
• Pettorini and Henry Kaczmar lead the Buckeyes in hits with five and in RBIs with four apiece. Kaczmar is batting .313.
• Gavin Bruni (1-0) and Colin Purcell (1-0) each have an ERA of 1.80 after their first starts of the season.
• Bruni, Landon Beidelschies and Hunter Shaw have each amassed six strikeouts so far.

GOING CAMP-ING

• Ryan Campos enters the season as D1Baseball's 10th-ranked catcher in the country and No. 95 collegiate prospect for the 2024 MLB Draft. He was named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 team, as voted on by the league's coaches.
• Campos has the 23rd-best active career batting average (.363) - third among the nation's catchers and 14th among players in at least their third season of collegiate baseball.
• The junior had his first multi-homer game against Santa Clara in the finale, also posting a career-best five RBIs. His seven RBIs this season are second on the team.
• Despite an uncharacteristic .188 average early this season, he has still reached base at a .381 clip thahnks to a team-best four walks and a hit-by-pitch. His seven runs scored also pace the team.
• Campos has reached base in a ridiculous 84-of-93 (90.3%) career games with the Sun Devils overall and all four this season. He has an active 14-base reached base streak dating back to last season.
• Campos reached base in all but two games last season. The two games he did not reach base was once during opening weekend and the first game after he returned from an 11-game injury absence.
• Had a team-best 31-game reached base streak at one point in last season and showed off plenty of extra pop in the bat, recording eight homers, seven doubles and a triple
• Campos was named to the Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List and also tabbed as the Pac-12 Player of the Week after the Washington State series during his sophomore campaign.
• In 44 games, Campos smacked .388 with 16 extra-base hits including eight home runs...He walked 35 times and struck out on a mere 17 occurrences
• Campos' 35 earned free passes were 15th in the league, yet because of his midseason injury, he had the fewest games played of anyone in the top 50 in the category.
• His .388 average was third in the Conference of Champions and his .503 OBP was tops in the league
• ASU's most reliable presence over the last two seasons, Campos earned his first recognition to the All-Pac-12 First Team last season as a sophomore after picking up an honorable mention honor as a freshman, also earning Freshman All-America honors that season as well.
• Campos was named the Jim Brock Mr. Sun Devil at the squad's end-of-season awards banquet at the end of the regular season last year....Named for the legendary and late Dr. Jim Brock, the award is presented to the student-athlete who best exemplifies the attitude and character expected of a Sun Devil Baseball Player
• For his elite efforts behind the plate, Campos was named as a Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Semifinalist.

JACOB'S LADDER

• Jacob Tobias earned Preseason Pac-12 All-Pac-12 recognition afte he took his game to the next level last season, finishing with a .317 average and starting 54 games - the majority coming at first base.
• Tobias has been on fire to start the year, batting .421 and posting multi-hit games in three games. With hits in each of his first four game, he rides an active six-game hitting streak into the weekend dating back to last season.
• Tobias was named by D1Baseball as the No. 44 first baseman in the country entering this season..
• Last season, he slugged .546 with 10 homers, nine doubles and leading the team with four triples en route to a 59 RBI season - good for ninth in the Pac-12 though the eight players in front of him benefited from postseason action
• Tobias was deadly the second time through the order with 22 of those RBIs coming in the fourth or fifth innings when he saw a starter for the second or third time - batting 23-of-50 (.460) with 22 RBIs, three homers and over a .500 OBP in those two innings.
• As a sophomore, he recorded an RBI in 12 of the last 18 games of the season and 33 games overall. He has an RBI in three of four games thus far this season.
• Tobias was 7-of-9 on the season when the bases were loaded and brought a runner home from third with less than two outs 75 percent of the time (15-of-20).
• Tobias earned Pac-12 Honorable Mention accolades last season as he took his game to the next level, finishing with a .317 average and starting 54 games - the majority coming at first base.
• Tobias was named a Freshman All-American in 2022. His 12 bases (two homers, two doubles) against Utah in the series finale are tied for the most by a Pac-12 player in a game. His seven homers this year were tied for eighth in ASU freshman history.

ACTION JACKSON

• No player has been as good through four games this season as Isaiah Jackson and his incredible tear to start the year.
• His 13 RBIs this season are good for fourth in the country while his three home runs are sixth.
• Jackson homered in the first two games of the season, as did teammate Jacob Tobias, joining a small list of Sun Devils to do so since 1998, including Spencer Torkelson (2020), Riccio Torrez (2011) and Jason Kipnis (2008).
• His three-hit game in the opener gave him more hits in five at-bats than he had through his first seven games last season.
• Jackson's 13 RBIs are especially notable as he didn't notch his 13th RBI until the 29th game of the year in 2023.

THE BURN(S) UNIT

• Thomas Burns became the first true freshman to start on the mound on Opening Night since Ike Davis in 2006.
• The youngster was electric in his debut, allowing just a single hit in his 5.0 innings and one run en route to earning his first career win.
• Burns struck out seven and walked just one batter in the effort.
• Right-handed hitters were 0-for-11 against Burns in the debut while he posted an .067 average against.

BIG MAC

• Nick McLain missed the first half of the season last year after a sustaining a hand injury the week prior to the season and wasted no time catching up on the lost time.
• McLain earned Pac-12 All-Conference Honorable Mention despite appearing in just 23 games, posting a .298 average and reached base at a .391 clip while slugging .649 behind eight homers, two triples and five doubles, recording over an RBI per game with 24 on the season, recording eight multi-RBI games.
• He enters this season as D1Baseball No. 53 collegiate prospect for the 2024 MLB Draft.
• He 3-for-6 with four RBIs  - including a two-run insurance missile in the ninth - in his collegiate debut, a road win over Grand Canyon
• McLain tarted his collegiate career with an 11-game hit streak - the longest streak to start a career for an ASU freshman since at least the 1998, as far back as easily found records can be accessed - and had hits in 14 of his first 15 games as a Sun Devil
• He also recorded five outfield assists on the year in his limited action.
• McLain showed the clutch gene through out the season, batting .400 in the 8th inning or later of games, posting four homers and eight RBIs in the process.

WHO'S THE NU'U GUY

• Nu'u Contrades enters the season as a Preseason All-Pac-12 selection and as D1Baseball's No. 46 third baseman in the country.
• The sophomore is fourth on the team with six RBIs this season and is reaching base at a .333 clip - striking out just twice in his first 17 ABs appearances, an area he struggled in last season.
• He is tied for the team lead with three doubles.
• The ASU third baseman bat .309 with 20 extra base hits (eighr homers, two triples, 10 doubles), recording 40 RBIs
• The .309 average was in the Top-5 for freshmen in the Pac-12 last season and Top-50 among all freshmen in the country...The rally at the dish came despite the youngster still sitting below the Mendoza line as of March 7
• He obliterated the University of Arizona in the three-game series in Tempe, where he was 7-14 (.500) with eight RBI, three runs scored...He plated the winning run in Saturday's series-securing victory and scored it in the series finale Sunday and was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week in the process
• He led the team with 10 RBIs (of 31 total for the week for ASU) with a .947 slugging percentage while batting .474 on 9-of-19 hitting in four total games that week
• Honored as the team's Bobby Winkles Award winner as a true freshman, Nu'u Contrades found himself at home in the valley as he earned All-Pac-12 honorable mention honors as an infielder.
• Had a productive Summer Ball campaign in the Northwoods League for the Duluth Huskies, making the league All-Star game and was the league leader in RBIs with 71 while slashing .320/.423/.563, recording 17 doubles and 13 homers across 60 games and 231 ABs

NOT THEIR FIRST RODEO

• While the names and faces of Harris Williams, Kevin Karstetter and Steven Ondina are new to Sun Devil fans, the trio bring no shortage of career experience and that has been in full display this season
• The three players had combined to play in 461 career games before setting foot on ASU's campus.
• Williams, a USF transfer who ranks in the 41st among all Division I players in games played, already has two homers and seven RBIs while batting .389 at the top of the Sun Devil lineup.
• Karstetter leads the squad with his .467 average and .600 OBP, also leading the team in walks.
• Ondina has quietly put up a .333 average but his talents don't necessarily show up in the box score as the senior is a vacuum at shortstop that has made several highlight reel plays this season

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

• Redshirt freshman Brandon Compton was recruited to ASU as a pitcher out of high school, but Tommy John surgery sidelined him his true frosh year, instead allowing him to focus on his bat - and focus he did.
• The youngster is second on the team with a .462 average this season, pacing the squad with his three doubles and adding a homer as well to give him a .923 slugging percentage that is second on the squad.
• Compton had a productive Summer Ball campaign in the Northwoods League for the Duluth Huskies this past summer, making the league All-Star game and was the league leader in RBIs with 71 while slashing .320/.423/.563, recording 17 doubles and 13 homers across 60 games and 231 ABs

GRABBING THE BULL-PEN BY THE HORNS

• The Sun Devil bullpen has made a habit of escaping jams under pitching coach Sam Peraza, stranding 966 baserunners over 117 games, an average of 8.3 stranded opponent runners per games. ASU has stranded 30 in four games this season.
• ASU relief pitchers have inherited 18 baserunners this season, of which only three have scored.  Ryan Schiefer, Matt Cornelius and Matt Tieding all inherited the bases loaded against Kansas State when they entered the game and all got inning-inning strikeouts.
• ASU used midweek games as bullpen days last year and the crew was absolutely electric, going 7-1 in single-game midweeks this season and 8-4 overall after going 5-7 in them in 2022. ASU is 1-0 in midweeks this season.
• Last season, the bullpen posted a 5.62 ERA with 22-7 record in decisions and 11 saves. The squad had 234 strikeouts to 130 walks (over 274.0 innings) and held opponents to .270 batting. While not entirely electric, it was a marked improvement from previous season where the 2022 Sun Devil bullpen had a 6.71 ERA for the season with a 13-19 record in decisions with 231 strikeouts to 170 walks (over 271.0 innings) and a .299 average against.
• Jonah Giblin was one of ASU's best options out of the pen and one of the only pitchers returning from last year's roster. Giblin posted a 3.43 ERA in 21.0 innings over 11 appearances out of then pen - the best ERA on the team - and holding opponents to a .237 average.
• ASU's other returning option out of the pen, Matt Tieding, posted a 4-1 record in relief last season and held opponents to a .250 average on the year.

HEADED TO THE GAP

• The Sun Devils are eighth in the country with 13 doubles this year - notable as they had 13 total through the first 11 games of last year. Brandon Compton and Nu'u Contrades rank tied for 19th in the country with three doubles.
• ASU got a slow start in the doubles category last season but came alive in the second half of the year. After having just 13 in the first 11 of the season, ASU finished with 108 to find itself in the Top-100 prior to the NCAA Tourney after being ranked as low as 232 through the first month of the season.
• The team recorded a double in 45 of 55 games overall with multiple doubles in 26 of those.
• Luke Keaschall finished seventh second in the entire country with 25 doubles .
• The Sun Devils recorded 134 doubles in 2022, good for 19th in the nation and third in the Pac-12.  The 127 doubles during the regular season were the most for a Sun Devil team in the REGULAR SEASON in the BBCOR era (since 2011) and tied for the fifth-most in a regular season since 1998.
• ASU had at least one double in all but six games in 2022 and multiple doubles in 36 of 58 games.

CHICKS DIG THE LONG BALL

• ASU is currently fourth in the nation with 11 homers this season while Isaiah Jackson sits tied for sixth with his three.
• Six of the team's 11 homers have come with at least one runner on base, including a grand slam. Of the teams five solo homers, however, four were of the leadoff variety and didn't give anyone a chance to be on base.
• Already, four different Sun Devils have multiple homers and six players have homered overall.
• The Sun Devils hit 19 more homers during the 2023 season than it did the prior year. 12 different players logged a home run last season for ASU and 10 have multiple home runs
• ASU had eight different players with at least six homers - more than any other team in the Pac-12.
• The Sun Devils had seven players with at least seven homers last year - two more than any other team at ASU has had since at least the 1998 season. ASU had five players with at least seven homers in 2022, tied for the second-most at ASU since 1998.
• ASU's 83 homers were 56th in the country prior to the NCAA Tournament.
• The better news was ASU finally started the get pumps with runners on base. 37 of the team's last 66 Sun Devil home runs last year came with runners on base after 14 of the first 17 this season were solo shots. Of the 26 solo shots, 17 were leadoff homers and thus not given the opportunity to happen with runners on base.
• The timing of the home runs  improved immensely over the second half of the 2022 season as well. On 24 of the final 37 homers on the year, ASU had at least one runner on base. That was notable as ASU had runners on base just eight times on the teams first 27 homers.
• Of the nine position players with at least 30 starts in 2022, all nine had multiple home runs. ASU had ten total players with multiple homers.

COMING IN HOT

• The Sun Devils thrived in the big innings, 12 times last season recording five or more runs in an inning. The team recorded 51 innings with three or more runs scored.
• ASU has already posted seven 3+ run innings and four 4+ run innings this season.
• ASU is 18th nationally in scoring (11.8 per game) and 11th in total runs this season (47).
• The Sun Devils owned opponent bullpens last season, as other teams had a miserable 7.36 ERA against the ASU offense and a 8-13 record in decisions. ASU bat .302 off opponent 'pens with 40 homers, 54 doubles and 9 triples over 239.2 innings. ASU worked a 118 walks to 206 strikeouts against opponent bullpens.
• This has continued through four games this year with ASU logging a 9.45 ERA against opponent bullpens while batting .330.  ASU scored two runs of Kansas State All-American closer Tyson Neighbors in 1.1 innings  after he did not give up more than a run in any sub 2.0-inning effort last season and just one single time previously in his career.
• Santa CLara All-WCC closer August Souza posted a 1.69 ERA in 32.0 innings pitched in 2023, leading the Broncos with five saves. Arizona State plated three earned runs off of him in 4.1 innings. He did not allow more than two earned runs in 12 appearances a season ago.
• The team posted 52 runs in the eighth inning of games last season, just under a run per game. The team bat .326 in the eighth inning of games with a .526 slugging percentage. The squad had 25 home runs total in innings 7-9 - easily surpassing its total of 17 from the previous season.
• ASU has scored 11 runs in the 7-9th innings this season.

HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS

• ASU did its part to shake off some of that bad mojo from the 2022  in close games last year, winning seven one-run games (after going just 1-7 in such games in 2022) and 18-9 in games decided by three runs or less - a category ASU was 14-16 in in 2022. ASU is 1-0 in such games this season.
• ASU trailed at one point in 17 of its last 22 victories and in 19 of the team's wins overall last year. It has trailed in two of the three wins this year.
• Last season, ASU was incredibly efficient at closing games out, going 24-4 when leading after six, 27-1 when leading after seven and 29-0 when leading after eight.
• In two seasons under Willie Bloomquist, the Sun Devils have shown that no opponent lead is safe, showing off plenty of grit in erasing multi-run deficits. ASU had nine wins last season when trailing by at least three runs at some point in the game and four of those by at least five.
• ASU already has one win this season when trailing by three or more and erased several four-run deficits against Santa Clara before finally succumbing in the finale.
• In 2022, the seven-run deficit overcome by the Sun Devils to defeat and take the series from Cal was the most since March 3, 2000 against Arizona.
• ASU doubled down at that last season with the victories over North Dakota State and GCU, overcoming a 7-0 deficit in both (and 9-2 in entering the eighth against GCU) for victories in both.
• Three times in 2022, ASU rallied from a deficit of five or more runs to tie or win the game - the first time that had happened since 2010 (also 3). ASU surpassed that and won four games last season in which it trailed by five runs.

DO I KNOW YOU?

• The Sun Devils welcome an incredible 27 new faces to the roster in 2023. The class features D1Baseball's No. 23 freshman group in the country and the No. 25 transfer class, a year removed from posting the No. 2 transfer class in the nation.
• The roster will feature 11 freshman arms, an incredible tally considering the 2022 team didn't have a single freshman arm on the roster.
• Thomas Burns is slated to become the first true freshman pitcher to start on opening night since the 2006 season when Ike Davis did it.
• The team will feature two new middle infielders for the second consecutive season after having at least one returner up the middle from 2018-22.
• Harris Williams, an All-WCC player at San Francisco last season, was the only transfer player named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 team aa voted upon by the league's coaches.
• The Sun Devils added another pair of All-WCC players in USF's Mario Demera and Santa Clara's Eamonn Lance.
• In addition to the guys playing on the field, the team also welcomed a slew of new faces on the coaching and support staff, highlighted by former Central Arizona College head coach Anthony Gilich as the team's third paid assistant, taking advantage of new NCAA legislation allowing for there to be a third coach. Sun Devil legend Brett Wallace also joined the staff as the Director of Quality Control and Offensive Strategy.

PRESEASON ACCOLADES

• The Sun Devils had five position players honored by the Pac-12 Coaches in being selected to the Pac-12 Preseason All-Conference team last week in Ryan Campos, Jacob Tobias, Nu'u Contrades, Nick McLain and Harris Williams
• The five selections were two more position players than any other team in the league.
• Williams was the only transfer recogized on the Preseason All-Pac-12 team by the coaches.
• Nick McLain was tabbed by D1Baseball at the No. 53 collegiate prospect in the 2024 MLB Draft with Ryan Campos checking in at No. 95. Isaiah Jackson was dubbed the No. 17 collegiate prospect for the 2025 MLB Draft by the outlet and Nu'u Contrades as the No. 52 prospect.
• The Sun Devils brought in the No. 25 transfer class in the nation, according to D1Baseball, highlighted by San Francisco All-WCC competitors Harris Williams and Mario Demera, Santa Clara's All-WCC Eamonn Lance and highly touted junior college transfer Kevin Karstetter out of the State College of Florida.
• Campos was ranked as the No. 10 catcher in the country for 2024 by D1Baseball, with Jacob Tobias as the No. 44 first baseman, Nu'u Contrades as the No. 46 third baseman and Harris Williams as the No. 88 outfielder in the country.
• McLain was tabbed as the No. 6 Pac-12 prospect in the 2024 Draft class with Campos checking in at No. 10, according to D1Baseball. Isaiah Jackson is the No. 3 prospect in the 2025 Draft Class in the league with Nu;u Contrades tabbed at No. 7.
• ASU also brought in the No. 23 freshman class in the country, according to D1Baseball, highlighted by middle infielders Ethan Mendoza and Jax Ryan, local two-way prospect Cole Carlon and Opening Night starter Thomas Burns out of Wisconsin.