Ryan Campos Baseball's 134th All-American

PHOENIX – Sun Devil Baseball junior catcher Ryan Campos was named the 134th All-American in program history, earning third team honors from the American Baseball Coaches Association.
 
Campos has been as consistent as any catcher in the country in his three years in the Valley, reaching base in an absurd 137-of-147 career games and all but one game this season. His .369 career batting average is 23rd among all active players and tops among all Division I catchers. He is currently 16th among all Sun Devil players in history that played at least two seasons with the program for career batting average.
 
It was the first All-America honor of Campos' career, though he was named a Freshman All-American in 2022. Teammate Kien Vu was named an All-American by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association last week while Brandon Compton was named a Freshman All-American by the outlet as well.
 
First recognized in 1949, the ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. I All-America teams are selected by the ABCA All-America & Coach of the Year committee, which is chaired by Tommy Raffo. The committee also includes Mitch Canham (Oregon State University), Dean Ehehalt (Monmouth University), Brian Green (Wichita State University), Jeff Mercer (Indiana University), Brian O'Connor (University of Virginia), Jim Penders (University of Connecticut), and Butch Thompson (Auburn University).
 
Ryan Campos
ABCA All-American – Third Team (Catcher)
ABCA West Region – First Team (Catcher)
Pac-12 First Team - Catcher

• Ryan Campos earned his first All-America Honor from the ABCA/Rawings and was an ABCA/Rawlings All-West Region First Team Catcher, a Dick Howser Trophy Finalist and Buster Posey Award Semifinalist He was twice named the Pac-12 Player of the Week.
• Campos entered 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 22nd-best active career batting average (.369) - tops among the nation's catchers and fourth among players with at least 500 career at-bats (567).
• Campos has reached base in a ridiculous 137-of-147 (93.2%) career games with the Sun Devils overall. He had a 40-game reached base streak dating back to 2023 snapped at Oregon State earlier this year but, regardless, reached base in 57 of 58 games for ASU this season. 
• Campos paced the Pac-12 with 25 doubles this season – three more than any other player in the league and a tally good for seventh in the country. His 11 homers were 16th in the league as well.
• Campos became the fourth player under Willie Bloomquist to have at least 20 doubles and 10 homers in a single season, joining Joe Lampe/Nate Baez (2022) and Luke Keaschall (2023). That tally is notable as ASU had just five players total accomplish the feat between 1998-2021.
• His 55 RBIs this season were just two shy of the team lead and eighth in the Pac-12. His 21 two-out RBI were the third-most on the squad.
• After an uncharacteristically low Sub-.300 average for the majority of the season, Campos rode a hot April where he bat .409 over 17 games and carried that through early May to bring his season total to .364 - good for third in the Pac-12. Campos bat .375 in Pac-12 games, a tally that is good for fifth in the league. 
• His 26 multi-hit games were five more than any Sun Devil this year. 
• Campos' .461 OBP was second on the roster and fifth in the Pac-12 while his .610 slugging percentage was eighth in the league. He slugged .633 in Pac-12-only games, the fifth-best tally in the conference. 
• The junior solidified his spot as a leadoff batter in the second half of the season and posted a gaudy .573 on-base percentage when leading off an inning this season, reaching on 47-of-82 chances.
• Campos had 40 walks on the season, good for fifth in the league. 
•  In fact, despite having more strikeouts than he did all last season (25), Campos still had more walks and his 0.62 strikeout-to-walk ratio was second in the Pac-12. He struck out just 10 times in the last 39 games after having 15 in the first 19.
• He easily led the team in productive outs, advancing runners with an out 35 times - 17 more than any of his teammates.
• His 73 runs scored also paced the team and were good for second in the Pac-12 and 24th in the country.
• His 19 runners caught stealing were second in the Pac-12 and his 42 defensive assists this season were for second among Pac-12 catchers. In Pac-12 games, however, his 15 runners caught stealing were three more than any other catcher and his 30 defensive assists were six more than any other backstop.
• In the final regular season weekend of the season, Campos bat an absurd .857 (12-of-14) with nine runs scored and slugged 1.357 with three doubles and a homer
• The junior had his first multi-homer game against Santa Clara in the finale, also posting a career-best five RBIs. He added another multi-homer game against Oregon.