PHOENIX -- No. 24 Sun Devil Baseball is set to host a massive Big 12 series against perennial rival and No. 22-ranked Arizona this weekend at Phoenix Municipal Stadium with a shot at first place in the conference on the line. The annual Territorial Cup series gets under way on Friday at 6:30 p.,m. AZT. Saturday's contest will get underway at the same time while Sunday's series finale will take place under the lights on a nationally televised broadcast on ESPN2 beginning at 5 p.m. AZT.
FOLLOW THE ACTION
- Friday and Saturday's contests will be broadcast on ESPN+ with Braiden Bell and Sun Devil alumnus Deven Marrero on the call. Sunday's contest will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2 with Victor Rojas and former Sun Devil assistant coach Mike Rooney providing insight.
- All three contests will be available over the local airwavea on KDUS 1060 AM with Tim Healey and Max Rossiter providing the highlights throughout the weekend.. All the radio calls from games can also be streamed online at: kdus1060.com/sundevils
- Friday's game will be followed by an electric postgame fireworks ceremony shortly following the conclusion of the contest.
- Sun Devil Baseball will honor its 1975 College World Series team prior to Saturday's contest with 10 alumni and two staff members returning to be recognized while honoring numerous staff and players from that team posthumously.
- As always, fans are 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. ASU has outscored teams 461-272 over its last 46 regular season games dating back to last season, posting a 34-12 record in the process.
2. Nu'u Contrades has reached base safely in all 29 games this season and has reached in 37 consecutive games dating back to his freshman season.
3. Kyle Walker has a hit in 17 straight games and multiple in 19 of the last 13. His team-leading season average of .379 is up from .083 as of Feb. 28.
4. Jacob Tobias has recorded an 54 RBIs in his last 35 games dating back to last season. He leads the team with 32 this year.
5. The Sun Devils are ranked for the first time this season and for the first time overall since May of the 2023 season.
6. The Sun Devils have scored in104 halves of an inning on the year and have plated two or more runs in 68 of those.
7. The Sun Devils have outscored opponents 31-7 over the last 24 first innings. ASU is 15-2 when it scores in the first frame of the game.
8. ASU has won two weekend series this year where it dropped the Friday opener. It had won just one such series in three seasons prior (Ore. St., 2023).
9. The Sun Devil pitching staff has 8 pitchers with 10+ innings pitched and a sub-4.50 ERA this season - the most for the 29-game mark since 2016 (also 8).
10. The Sun Devils have recorded seven games with 20+ hits under Willie Bloomquist after it had just eight from 2008-2021.
BY THE NUMBERS
60 - The Sun Devils have added a welcomed improvement in two areas this season, seeing notable gains on the basepath and playing in the field. ASU's 60 stolen bases this season are good for 43rd in the nation and notable as ASU has not ranked in the Top-120 in the category nationally since 2011 (18th, 99). The 60 stolen bases have already surpassed the team's total for the SEASON a year ago (53). Arizona State has been caught stealing just 13 times of 74 attempts so far this season. The Sun Devils have also quietly put up 16 games this season with no errors and a .983 fielding percentage that is currently good for first in the Big 12 and 9th in the country. This tally is also notable as ASU has not ranked in the Top-100 in the category in each of the last three seasons.
17 - Kyle Walker enters the weekend with an active team-leading hitting streak of 17 games, which is easily the longest for a Sun Devil this season. He has multiple hits in 10 of the last 13 games. Walker is the team leader in average at .379 - a notable achievement as he was batting .083 on Feb. 28 and still below the Mendoza line as of March 7. The average is good for 11th in the Big 12.Since moving into the leadoff spot in the second game against TCU (where he has played every game since), Walker is batting .489 on 23-of-47 hitting with a .552 OBP and team-leading 15 runs scored. Walker's .496 career OBP is fourth among active D1 players that have played their whole careers at the D1 level and his .379 career average is 8th among those active players. He also ranks 32nd among active D1 players in runs scored (151).
10 - The Sun Devils continue to excel in getting the swing and miss, ranking 22nd nationally with an 10.5 K/9 tally that is good for first in the Big 12. ASU has struck out double digit batters 17 times in 29 games this year. ASU's overall team WHIP sits 55th nationally at 1.40. While not necessarily eye-popping, it is a notable number as the team has not finished in the Top-100 in the category since 2012 (6th, 1.17). In fact, ASU has been outside the Top-200 five different times since then and outside the Top-150 eight times. The team's strikeout-to-walk ratio of 2.38 ranks 54th in the nation as well. The Sun Devils have not ranked in the Top-100 in that category in a non-COVID season since the 2015 campaign where ASU checked in at 79th in the nation with a ratio of 2.20.
5 - The Sun Devils already have seven games this season in which the team has struck out fewer than five times - notable as that already surpasses the team's total of four for the ENTIRE SEASON a year ago. The team has shaved its strikeouts per game to 6.3 this season compared to a 7.4 mark a year ago. Kyle Walker (1 per 17.4) and Matt King (1 per 11.9) rank as the 1st and 4th toughest to strike out players in the Big 12 - with Walker being 9th in the country as well. Nu'u Contrades has 24 walks to 16 strikeouts in 108 at-bats after posting 51 strikeouts and just nine walks during his freshman season on 217 ABs. Punishing the rarer first pitch strikes has been pivotal for ASU in avoiding falling behind in counts, batting 60-for-158 (.379) on first pitch balls put into play.
LAST TIME OUT: UTAH/CAL STATE FULLERTON
- With the sweep at Utah last weekend, the Sun Devils won their fourth-straight road series dating back to last season - the first time the program has accomplished that feat since winning the three road series of 2021 and the first of 2022.
- The series sweep was the first road sweep in a conference series by a Big 12 team this season and just the 15th conference road sweep for a Power Four program this year.
- Utah had not been swept at home since its final home series of the year in 2022 against No. 8 Stanford.
- Utah starter Colter McAnelly has allowed just 41 total earned runs in his career over 107.1 innings and 22 games - seven of which have been scored by the Sun Devils in 6.0 innings of work (17.1 percent with 3 in 0.0 innings last year and 4 in 6.0 innings today). His four runs Friday were the most he has allowed in a game this year. Utah starter Cameron Nielson had given up just five earned runs all season (15.1 innings in 8 games) before allowing five in the first 3.2 innings today, alone.
- Utah scored 27 runs in the previous weekend's series victory over Oklahoma State before being held to 14 in the series against ASU this weekend. ASU stranded 27 Utah baserunners.
- The 23 hits Sunday and 17 hits on Friday were the most allowed by Utah this season and the second and third-most for ASU in a game this year.
- Sunday's game marked the seventh time in the Willie Bloomquist tenure - and second this season - that the team has recorded 20 or more hits (since 2022). The team had just eight from 2008-21 and only three from 2011-21).
- Both of ASU's 20-hit games this season have come on the road and three of the seven total under Bloomquist. Of the team's 36 games with 20+ hits from 2000-2021, only eight came on the road.
- ASU did not record a home run in the sweep of Utah, marking the first time the team had achieved that in a road sweep since the first seven games of the 1999 season (three at Hawai'i and four at Hawai'i Hilo) where the team did not record one in either series. It was the first time recording one, regardless of venue, since sweeping Northwestern in the 2017 opening series of the year.
- Going back to Sunday, ASU has seven innings of out the last eight with a crooked number - in order - 7, 5, 4, 2, 2, 2 and 2 runs.
- CSUF starting pitcher Landon Martin had given up just four runs all season in 10.2 innings and seven appearances before giving up four to the Sun Devils in the first inning on Tuesday.
- Fullerton entered the game as winners of 8 of its last 9 games. It was only the second time this season Fullerton had lost a game by double digits (Stanford, 13-1 (7)) with its average margin of loss being by just 3.1 runs this year. The 14 runs were tied for the most allowed by Fullerton this season
ON DECK: ARIZONA
- In the modern era of Sun Devil Baseball (since it became an NCAA sport in 1959), ASU owns a dominant 210-147-1 record against the Wildcats. ASU
- went 23-116 against the Wildcats prior to that dating back to 1907, skewing the overall series record all-time. ASU dropped the midweek non-conference tilt to the Wildcats earlier this season.
- Sunday's finale will mark the 500th all-time game between the two programs, who enter the weekend both ranked in the Top-10 among NCAA programs in all-time victories with ASU checking in at No. 9 (3,053) and the Wildcats at No. 10 (3,044)
- ASU has won 6 of the last 9 of the regular season WEEKEND series between the two teams and have taken each of the last conference series (a sweep at home in 2023 and taking two out of three in Tucson last year). ASU is looking to win the weekend series for the third year in a row for the first time since 2014-16, also achieved by ASU.
- This weekend's tilt will mark the first time the two programs will square off as ranked opponents in a weekend since the 2015 campaign. Arizona State checks in at No. 24 in D1Baseball's Top-25 this week and No. 25 in the Perfect Game Poll. Arizona is ranked No. 22 by Baseball America, No. 20 by Perfect Game and No. 25 by the NCBWA. Arizona State was ranked No. 5 in that series while the Wildcats entered at No. 24.
- Out of 148 Division I Baseball series scheduled for this weekend, only nine will be played between two teams with 20+ wins, of which the Territorial Cup Series is one.
- The two programs paced the Big 12 with players on MLB Opening Day Rosters last week with Arizona State leading the pack with 7 and the Wildcats with 6.
JACOB'S LADDER
- Jacob Tobias was named an NCBWA Preseason All-American (2nd Team First Baseman) and D1Baseball's #6 First Baseman in the country.
- Tobias recorded his 39th career homer against Minnesota, moving him into sole possession of 10th place all-time in Sun Devil history. He ranks tied for 33rd among active D1 players who have played their whole career at the the D1 level.
- Among active career D1 players, Tobias is 17th in games played (194), 22nd in ABs (716), 18th in hits (222), 14th in total bases (394) and eighth in RBIs (178)
- He leads the team with 32 RBIs this season - 6th in the Big 12 - and is reaching base at a .393 clip with a .325 average. has recorded 54 RBIs in his last 35 games dating back to last season and has at least one RBI in 24 of those games.
- He has a team-best 19 hits with runners in scoring position this season - five more than any other player. Nine times this season, Tobias has been responsible for the first RBI of the game. Seven times this seasonm he has recorded the game-winning RBI and has done so in three straight games. The next closest Sun Devil has three game-winning RBIs TOTAL.
- His 12 doubles are tied for 2nd in the Big 12 and 26th in the nation and are already just two off his career high of 14 set last season.
- He has been among ASU's best hitters with two outs, posting a .326 average on 14-of-42 hitting and his 14 two-out RBI lead the team by four. He has also been ASU's most productive out, advancing runners with an out 17 times - three more than any other Sun Devil.
- Tobias bat .322 with a team-leading 58 RBIs last year, with 14 doubles and a team-leading 18 homers, the latter of which was good for second in the Pac-12 during the regular season. His .635 slugging percentage was sixth in the league in the regular season.
- He slugged .626 in Pac-12 games, the ninth-best tally in the conference and earned Pac-12 First Team All-Conference recognition at first base
- His 14 doubles gave him 33 for his ASU career while the 18 homers bumped his career tally to 35. The 35 homers are the seventh-most for a player in the career at ASU since the 1998 season
- Tobias needs three homers to move into ASU's top-10 in homers all-time and 22 home runs would set the ASU school record
- Tobias' 146 career RBIs are the 10th-most for an ASU player since the 1998 season and he needs 54 RBIs to reach 200 for his career and enter the Top-8 in ASU history and the first since Ike Davis (2006-08) to do so. His .553 career slugging percentage is also 19th at ASU in that time since 1998
- The junior posted his first career five-hit game in the finale against Arizona and added a four-hit game against Utah. He added another five-hit game in just seven innings against Texas Tech
- Tobias recorded 22 RBIs in his final six games of the season last year (six, eight, four, one, two, one).
- He joined Spencer Torkelson as the only other Sun Devil in the last decade to record over 50 RBIs and over 10 homers in back-to-back seasons. His 58 RBIs last season were sixth in the Pac-12.
ENJOYING THE VU
- Kien Vu had his best week of the season against UNLV and Gonzaga, where he posted a .500 average (7-of-14) with four home runs, three doubles, four walks and nine RBIs all in the leadoff spot for the Sun Devils.
- Though he has missed the majority of the last month with an ankle injury, Vu maintains a .338 average on the season with six homers and six doubles and a .697 slugging percentage. His career .631 slugging percentage is 35th among active D1 players that have played their whole careers at the D1 level
- He has also done a ton of damage on the basepaths, where he has 10 stolen bases (on 13 attempts). He stole three in ASU's Friday game against Oral Roberts, one off the ASU single game school record.
- Vu is reaching base at a a .446 clip on the year and he leads the team in advancing runners at a .677 clip (21-of-31).
- Vu became the 133rd All-American in Sun Devil Baseball history after posting a .413 average over 47 games and 35 starts – the highest average in the Pac-12 and sixth in the country. He was second in the country in batting average on balls in play at .511
- Vu was selected as a NCBWA Preseason All-American (2nd Team Outfielder), D1Baseball's #14 Outfielder, D1Baseball's #21 Big 12 2025 MLB Draft Prospect and an All-Big 12 Preseason Team (Outfielder).
- In the month of Apri last yearl, Vu posted a .439 average to lead the Sun Devils, boasting a gaudy .848 slugging percentage that was 100 points higher than any of his teammates. He had seven homers, four doubles and a triple while driving in 26 runs - 12 more than any other Sun Devil for the month. His efforts garnered him finalist consideration for the NCBWA Hitter of the Month
- His .793 slugging percentage (14 homers, 11 doubles, two triples) was easily tops on the team while he also led the squad with 12 stolen bases on 13 chances. He reached base at a .497 clip on the year
- The .793 slugging percentage was 18th nationally and second in the Pac-12 and his .497 OBP was second in the league and 29th in the country... The .793 slugging percentage was the highest at ASU since the 1998 season
- His 56 RBIs were second on the squad and eighth in the Pac-12 despite having over 20 fewer at-bats than the team's eight AB leaders and nearly 64 fewer AB's than the next closest player in front of him in the conference
- He led the Pac-12 in league-only games with a .418 average and .916 slugging percentage and his 31 RBIs in Pac-12 games were fifth in the league.
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
- Brandon Compton ranks fifth in the Big 12 with 24 walks this season, good for 85th nationally. That has contributed to his .419 OBP over his .306 average.
- Compton has 10 doubles this season, a total good for fourth in the Big 12 and in the Top 100 nationally, while also adding six homers. His 30 RBIs this season are 13th in the Big 12.
- Compton ranks within the Top-250 among all Division I baseball players (~12,000) with a Offensive Runs Above Replacement Value of 20.50. He career .626 slugging percentage is 41st among active D1 players.
- Compton is fifth on the team in successfully advancing runners at a .520 clip (39-of-75).
- Compton was named the Big 12 Player of the Week after an opening weekend in which he bat .461 on 6-of-13 hitting with nine RBIs (second in the league) and eight runs scored (first). He drew five walks while striking out just twice and had the go-ahead walk-off two-RBI double in ASU's Saturday win over Ohio State and the two-RBI go-ahead single in the fifth inning against Austin Peay.
- Compton became the 37th Freshman All-American in program history after becoming the fourth Sun Devil to be named Pac-12 Freshman/Newcomer of the Year last year.
- He went on to be named an All-Star in the Cape Cod League for Cotuit, where he bat .331 with six homers and 30 RBIs.
- Compton was n amed an NCBWA Preseason All-American (1st Team Designated Hitter), 2025 Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List member, D1Baseball's #13 Outfielder and D1Baseball #29 2025 MLB Draft Prospect/#5 Big 12 entering the year.
- He was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year after he led Pac-12 freshmen in homers (14), doubles (16), average (.354), slugging (.661), OBP (.427) and RBIs (51). He was 11th overall in doubles, 10th in homers, seventh in average, fifth in slugging, 11th in OBP and 14th in RBI.
- He was 35th among all players nationally in batting average on balls in play (.438)
- His .354 batting average was 10th among all D1 freshmen and third among Power Five Freshmen and his 14 homers were eighth among all freshmen nationally
- The youngster was third on the team with his .354 average last season. His .375 mark (24-of-64) with runners in scoring position was second on the team.
- 27 of his 51 RBIs came with two outs, leading the team in the category and having five more than any other player.
- Compton recorded three grand slams on the season, tied for the second most in program history and just one shy of the ASU single season record.
- His 1.089 OPS was third on the squad and fourth in the Pac-12 while his .307 ISO Slugging (Slugging Minus Average) was fifth the Pac-12.
- Compton was easily ASU's best hitter with two outs this season, recording a .438 average on 28-of-64 chances, leading the team in average and hits in the scenario.
- He was responsible for the go-ahead grand slam in the series finale against Ohio State that proved to be the difference in the 10-8 ballgame. He also had a huge game-tying RBI single in the eighth inning of ASU's eventual walk-off win over Oregon. He had the go-ahead two-run homer against Utah Valley as well.
ACTION JACKSON
- Isaiah Jackson has steadily put up hits in all but eight of Arizona State's games this season and has a .288 average with 16 extra-base hits (9 doubles, 2 triples, 5 homers).
- Jackson has been among ASU's best hitters with a runner in scoring position, posting a 12-for-35 (.343) mark in the category. His nine two-out RBIs are third-most on the team, as are his 26 overall RBIs.
- Jackson has reached on 14 of his 28 leadoff opportunities (.500) on the season, good for second on the team.
- Jackson's defensive prowess remains untouched, as he ranks 46th nationally in defensive runs saved on fly balls this season at 3.64.
- Jackson continued showing exceptional defensive skills a year ago, being named the the Pac-12 All-Defensive team for the second straight year while adding a career best 31 RBIs and eight homers. Jackson bat .263 on the year but reached base at a .345 clip thanks to 18 walks and five HBPs.
- A year ago, Jackson was exceptional in the last 13 games of the regular season, batting .375 on 15-of-40 hitting.
- Jackson was third on the team in productive outs, advancing runners with an out 17 times.
- The sophomore recorded SportsCenter's No. 1 play against UCLA with his incredible leaping grab over the wall in right center field to rob a three-run homer from the Bruins, becoming a viral sensation overnight with several million views of the catch over multiple platforms.
- Jackson's eight putouts in center field in the USC finale were tied with Hunter Bishop (2019) for the second-most for an ASU outfielder since 1998 behind Joe Lampe's nine in 2021. Coincidentally, all three of those games have taken place against USC.
- 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).
ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS
- Ben Jacobs sits 5th in the Big 12 with his 10.80 K/9 percentage while his 44 total strikeouts are 6th in the league and 61st in the country. His career 12.67 K/9 is 12th among active D1 pitchers.
- Jacobs has a 4.42 ERA overall but his 3.26 SIERA - which takes into consideration factors outside the pitcher's control - is 11th-best in the Big 12. He has allowed just seven earned runs in his last four games (21.2 innings) - two of which coming on a wind-aided wallscraper at TCU.
- Even when batters are making contact, it's not necessarily harmful contact with Jacobs ranking sixth in the Big 12 in lowest batting average on balls in play at .275. His 1.25 WHIP is ninth in the Big 12
- Jacobs won Big 12 Pitcher of the Week after he threw a perfect game thorugh 17 batters in his Friday nightsvictory against Gonzaga, striking out six with no walks and just one hit allowed in his 6.0 innings - ASU's first quality start of the year
- Jacobs matched his career high with 11 strikeouts against Oral Roberts this season - doing so in just 5.0 innings of work.
- He cleaned up on the Preseason honors as he was named a D1Baseball Preseason All-American (3rd Team Starting Pitcher), Perfect Game Preseason All-American (2nd Team Starting Pitcher), NCBWA Preseason All-American (2nd Team Starting Pitcher), 2025 Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List member, D1Baseball's #13 Starting Pitcher, D1Baseball's #28 2025 MLB Draft Prospect/#4 Big 12, All-Big 12 Preseason Team (Starting Pitcher) and Prospects Live No. 2 left-handed pitching prospect for the 2025 MLB Draft.
- He was named the the U.S. Collegiate National Team in the summer, becoming the 43rd Sun Devil to accomplish the feat. He Recorded action on the mound in the International Friendship Series…Completed the series with a 2.08 ERA and seven strikeouts in 4.1 innings of work … Finished with a 1-0 overall record…Yielded just two hits in a weather-shortened 3-2 win over Chinese Taipei in Cary, N.C., on June 30.
- Jacobs evolved into ASU's ace as last season progressed, earning Pac-12 Honorable Mention honors.
- He also tossed 5.0 scoreless innings for Cotuit in the Cape Cod League with eight strikeouts over 5.0 innings
- Jacobs finished his debut seasson with the Devils with a 4.75 ERA and a team-best seven wins on the season, striking out 102 over 66.1 innings with a sub-.250 average against.
- The 102 strikeouts were 43rd nationally overall and 33rd following the end of the conference tournament season
- His 13.84 K/9 was 11th nationally and tops in the Pac-12 and his seven wins were third in the league
- Jacobs struck out a career-best 11 hitters in his Friday night win over USC, earning a quality start with a career-best 6.1 innings of work while allowing just a single run. He added a second quality start in 6.0 scoreless innings against Stanford with nine strikeouts.
WHO'S THE NU'U GUY
- Nu'u Contrades made his long awaited return to the hot corner this season after missing the majority of last year with a back injury. He entered the season on D1Baseball's sixth-ranked third baseman in the country and the No. 22 MLB Draft prospect in the Big 12.
- Contrades is reaching base at a .445 clip this season over his .306 average while posting eight doubles, a triple and four homers.
- His 24 walks this season are 5th in the Big 12 and 85th nationally. He has notably struck out just 16 times on 108 ABs year (14.8 percent) after striking out 51 times with just 9 walks his freshman season on 217 ABs (23.5 percent).
- He ranks 212th among all Division I players in Offensive Runs Above Replacement at 21.17
- Contrades has played exceptionally well at the hot corner, second on the team in defensive assists with 54 - the most among Big 12 third baseman - and having just two errors on 628chances for a .971 fielding percentage. He is tied for 49th in the country overall and 13th among third basemen with a defensive WAR of 0.45 and 26th in the country defensive runs saved on ground balls at 5.23.
- Among 12,000+ D1Baseball players, Contrades ranks 103rd in the country with an overall WAR of 2.03.
- Contrades has reached base safely in all 29 games this season and has reached in 37 consecutive games dating back to his freshman season after reaching in all five games in his injury shortened sophomore campaign and the last three of 2023.
- Contrades is 8-for-9 on stolen bases this year, bringing his career tally to 17-of-21.
- Contrades has bat out of the leadoff position often this year and reached on 16-of-38 (.421) leadoff opportunities.
- Contrades was named the Big 12 Co-Player of the Week for his efforts against Oral Roberts, where he homered three times and bat at a .385 average with five RBIs and six runs scored.
- In limited action last year, Contrades reaching base at a .346 clip - striking out just twice in his first 21 ABs appearances, an area he struggled in as a freshman.
- The ASU third baseman bat .309 with 20 extra base hits (eight homers, two triples, 10 doubles) and recording 40 RBIs as a freshman in 2023.
- The .309 average was in the Top-5 for freshmen in the Pac-12 that year 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 following his freshman season, 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.
WALK THIS WAY
- Kyle Walker has assumed duties at second base this season after a very productive undergraduate campaign at Grambling.
- Walker enters the weekend with an active team-leading hitting streak of 17 games, which is easily the longest for a Sun Devil this season. He has multiple hits in 10 of the last 13 games.
- Walker is the team leader in average at .379 - a notable achievement as he was batting .083 on Feb. 28 and still below the Mendoza line as of March 7. The average is good for 11th in the Big 12.
- Since moving into the leadoff spot in the second game against TCU (where he has played every game since), Walker is batting .489 on 23-of-47 hitting with a .552 OBP and team-leading 15 runs scored.
- Walker's .496 career OBP is fourth among active D1 players that have played their whole careers at the D1 level and his .379 career average is 8th among those active players. He also ranks 32nd among active D1 players in runs scored (151).
- Walker has struck out just once ever 17.4 at-bats this season, marking him the toughest player in the Big 12 to strike out and 9th toughest in the country.
- Walker leads the team with 59 defensive assists this year while fielding a solid .974. The 59 assists are good for 13th in the Big 12 despite not starting five games for ASU this year.
- Walker is tied for first in the Big 12 and 13th in the country with five sac flies this year. He has successfully advanced runners at a .627 clip (32-of-51) good for second on the team.
- Walker participated in the 2024 MLB Draft Combine and represented the U.S. Collegiate National Team during the summer, competing in the International Friendship Series against Chinese Taipei in Cary, N.C.
- As a redshirt sophomore in 2024, led Grambling State with a career-best .381 batting average, 11 home runs, 77 hits, and 71 runs scored.He recorded 114 defensive assists and turned 26 double plays in 2024
- Walker concluded his two-year career at Grambling State with a .376 batting average, .500 on-base percentage, 13 home runs, 135 hits, 70 RBIs, and 121 runs scored
- Walker began his Grambling State career in 2023 after redshirting his freshman year at Louisiana Tech, starting at second base and batted .372 with 2 home runs, 58 hits, and 50 runs scored in his debut season at Grambling.
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK
- Senior Jack Martinez has giving ASU much-needed longevity in his three starts this season, tossing a team-best 38.1 innings.
- While Martinez has a 4.46 ERA, his 2.41 SIERA - which accounts for runs not in the pithcer's control - is second in the Big 12.
- He leads in the Big 12 with 53 strikeouts this season - good for 20th in the nation - and his 12.44 K/9 is second in the league and 33rd in the country. His 3.79 strikeout to walk ratio is fifth in the Big 12.
- He was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week after the Gonzaga series where he posted a no-hitter through 6.2 innings en route to a 10 strikeout, two walk, one hit performance with no runs allowed.
- Among D1 pitchers with 500+ pitches this season, his 34.2 whiff percentage is 25th in the nation. His 45.8 whiff percentage on his changeup in 10th in the country and his 69.8 strike percentage on the pitch is ninth.
- Martinez posted a 4.40 ERA for Louisiana in 2024 as helped the Ragin' Cajuns to the Sun Belt Conference regular season title and a spot in the NCAA Baseball Tournament where it advanced to the Regional Final against eventual College World Series runner-up Texas A&M
- He went a combined 10-1 on the mound in 38 career appearances at Division III Trinity University (Texas) and was named first-team All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, first-team D3baseball.com All-Region and second-team ABCA Second Team All-Region
- He led a stellar pitching staff with a 2.12 earned run average in 2023, finishing the year with a 6-0 record and six saves as he recorded a team-best 81 strikeouts in 51.0 innings of work, holding opponents to a .163 batting average. He finished third among DIII players in strikeouts per nine innings (14.29).
SHORT KING
- Matt King might be a new face to Sun Devil fans but he entered the season as one of the most veteran shortstops in the country.
- King is second on the team in batting .352 on the year with a .443 on-base percentage.
- King's 10 doubles are tied for fourth in the Big 12 and within the Top-100 in the country. King is also a perfect 6-for-6 on stolen bases this year
- The defending Big 12 Newcomer of the Week, King has now recorded four-straight games recording multiple hits. That feat is the longest of his 188 career games between his time at ASU and UTSA.
- King has struck out once ever 11.4 at-bats this season, the fourth-best tally in the Big 12 and 58th in the country.
- King's 188 career games are 29th among active D1 players that have played their entire careers at the D1 level and his 148 total runs scored are 41st. His 212 hits are 29th and his 16 sac flies are third.
- King, a transfer from UTSA, was a three-year starter at short for the Roadrunners.
- He posted a career-best .336 average at UTSA as a junior in 2024 with 41 RBIs to finish his Roadrunner career with a .304 average with a .449 OBP and 127 RBIs over 163 games played
- King recorded 94 defensive assists as a junior and turned 15 double plays and finished the season with a 20+ game reached base streak en route to All-AAC First Team honors
- He played in all 57 games in 2023, earning a start in 56 of them – all at shortstop… held a .318 batting average with 69 hits, 45 runs and 58 RBI… recorded 23 extra-base hits, including 11 doubles, six triples and six home runs… picked 22 multi-hit games and 14 multi-RBI games
- King won the starting shortstop battle early in the year as a true freshman in 2022 and held it down for UTSA, starting 41 games at short and a game apiece at second and first … hit .237 with a .348 OBP … recorded 31 hits in 156 at-bats with 12 doubles, a triple and a home run to earn 28 RBI.
- King entered the season with 163 games played in his career.
GRABBING THE BULL-PEN BY THE HORNS
- The Sun Devil bullpen has made a habit of escaping jams under Willie Bloomquist, stranding 1,626 baserunners over 199 games, an average of 8.2 stranded opponent runners per game. ASU stranded 453 in 55 games last season and 212 in 30 games this season.
- In eight midweek games this season, the Sun Devils have a 3.63 ERA, holding opponents to a .223 average against with 70 strikeouts in 67.0 innings. For perspective, the Sun Devils had a 6.21 ERA in midweeks last season with a .282 average against.
- This season is the first time ASU has posted two midweek shutouts since 2012, when the team beat Utah Valley (9-0) and Cal State Fullerton (1-0) on March 13 and March 27. It is the first time the team had back-to-back midweek shutouts since March 26-27, 1996 vs. Portland State (10-0, 12-0). It is the first time a team has back-to-back midweek shutouts over two separate teams since Feb. 5 and Feb. 20, 1990 vs. Chapman and Lubbock Christian (4-0, 4-0). These totals are all notable as ASU used five pitchers in each of those victories (2-0 at UCLA, 7-0 vs. UNLV).
- Last season, ASU relief pitchers inherited 154 baserunners, of which only 57 scored (37.1 percent). That number sits at 24 of 52 this year (46.1).
- Sean Fitzpatrick was among the best in show in the category, stranding 19 of his 22 inherited runners on the year. He also leads the way in stranding 8 of 13 this year.
- Jonah Giblin has been exceptional in long relief for the Sun Devils this season, currently third on the team with 25.2 innings pitched and posting a 3.16 ERA with a 4-1 record and 27 strikeouts to six walks while opponents are hitting just .200 off of him. The four victories are fifth in the Big 12 and 48th nationally this season.
- Lucas Kelly has allowed just two runs in 12.0 innings over 11 appearances with 13 strikeouts and just a .205 average against.
- Cole Carlon has also been electric in long relief out of the pen, posting a 2.49 ERA over 14 appearances with 38 strikeouts in only 25.1 innings and just a .129 average against.
- Derek Schaefer has a 3.77 ERA on the season with two saves and 15 strikeouts over 14.1 innings with just a .232 average against.
PITCH AND CATCH
- While there is still a ton of season ahead, early returns on new Sun Devil pitching coach Jeremy Accardo have paid immediate dividends while the defenders behind him have done their part to reward the staff for throwing strikes and taking care of balls in play.
- ASU has eight pitchers with 10.0+ innings pitched and a sub-4.50 ERA. Last year at this time, the team had four. It is the most ASU has had at the 29-game mark since it had eight players at the tally in the 2016 season.
- ASU's overall team WHIP sits 55th nationally at 1.40. While not eye popping, It is notable as the team has not finished in the Top-100 in the category since 2012 (6th, 1.17). In fact, ASU has been outside the Top-200 five different times since then and outside the Top-150 eight times.
- The team's strikeout-to-walk ratio of 2.36 ranks 54th in the nation as well. The Sun Devils have not ranked in the Top-100 in that category in a non-COVID season since the 2015 campaign where ASU checked in at 79th in the nation with a ratio of 2.20.
- ASU is first in the Big 12 with a 10.5 K/9 average this season, good for 22nd nationally. The Sun Devils have struck out double digit batters in 17 of 29 games on the season.
- The Sun Devils have posted 18 games this season without an error and have quietly put up a .983 fielding percentage on the year - good for first in the Big 12 and ninth in the country. ASU ranked outside the Top-100 in each of the last three seasons in the category.
- ASU is the highest ranked team in the country that plays on a a totally natural field (dirt and grass, including foul territory) and on of just four teams in the Top-25 to lay such a claim.
- ASU had a seven-game streak without an error at one point this year - which was its longest since a nine-game stretch in the 2015 season.
- The Sun Devil pitchers have been amonst the most improved in the area, with just three errors credited against them this season - notable as ASU pitchers were responsible for 12 of ASU's 60 errors last season (20.0 percent).
WHAT'S THE CATCH?
- The Sun Devils looked hard-pressed to replace one of the program's most prolific offensive players in history as All-American catcher Ryan Campos is now departed as an early round draft pick to the Cardinals organization, leaving a gap at the catcher position that was manned by the .369 career hitter the last three seasons but Josiah Cromwick and Brody Briggs have answered the call.
- After a prolific offensive Fall and early Spring in team scrimmages, Josiah Cromwick has shown he can do it with the lights on as well, leading the Sun Devils with eight home runs this season, good for sixth in the Big 12 despite not seeing every day action in the lineup.
- Cromwick has 17 total hits on the season and 13 of those have gone for extra bases, recording eight homers and five doubles.
- ASU went with Cromwick as the backstop to get the opening night start. Granted an extra year of eligibility by the NCAA, Cromwick was arguable t he team's best play erthrough Fall and Preseason camp this year, recording 20 home runs in live AB scrimmages. Cromwick was a Top-25 catcher in the nation out of high school and started 67 games for the Oregon Ducks prior to transferring to ASU last year.
- Brody Briggs has posted a .302 average on the year. His seven RBIs on the first two home runs of his career in the rubber match victory over TCU are the most for a Sun Devil this season.
THINGS ARE GETTING A BIT HAIR-Y
- Freshman Landon Hairston has shown a mature approach at the plate despite the freshman tag and has quickly become a staple in the Sun Devil lineup.
- Hairston has been on a tear over the last 17 games, where he is hitting .385 (21-52) with 10 RBIs and eight multi-hit efforts with a .507 OBP. His season average has risen from .222 to .343 during that span - good for third on the team.
- Hairston is batting 11-for-25 (.440) in innings 7-9 this season.
- Hairston has spent much of his time in the last month in right field in place of the injured Kien Vu, and he has been a perfect 21-for-21 on defensive chances with no errors.
HEADED TO THE GAP
- ASU has recorded 74 doubles this year and multiple doubles in 20 games, ranking 5th in the country (and 11th at 2.55 per game) and first in the Big 12. ASU has racked up 18 doubles in its last four games, alone.
- Twelve players have recorded a double already this season and 10 have multiples. Jacob Tobias leads the was with 12, good for second in the Big 12 and 26th nationally. Brandon Compton and Matt King each have 10, tied for fourth in the Big 12 and in the Top-100 nationally.
- The Sun Devils were tops in the Pac-12 and sixth in the country with 143 doubles last year in 58 games and the 2.47 doubles per game were fourth in the nation. The total was 15 more than any other team in the Pac-12 even without making the postseason.
- 15 different Sun Devils had multiple doubles last season - the most of any school in the Pac-12.
- Ryan Campos was the Pac-12 leader with 25 doubles this year - a tally good for 7th nationally. Nick McLain was sixth with 18, Brandon Compton was 12th with 16. Jacob Tobias had 14, Harris Williams had 13 and Ethan Mendoza and Kien Vu had 11, giving ASU a Pac-12 leading seven players that have reached double digits in the category.
- ASU had multiple doubles in 39 games last season and at least one double in 51 of 63 games. The team's 143 double were fifth out of all ASU team's since 1998 in the category.
- ASU got a slow start in the doubles category in 2023 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 that year 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
- Arizona State has 36 home runs this season, a total that is fourth in the Big 12 and 66th nationally. Eight players have homered and seven have multiple homers. Josiah Cromwick leads the way with eight, good for sixth in the Big 12
- ASU only had runners on base on 9 of its first 23 homers of the season but has had runners on 10 of its last 13 homers with the only three exceptions being leadoff home runs.
- Notable though, ASU swept the road series against Utah WITHOUT hitting a home run - the first time the team had accomplished that feat in a road series sweep since the start of the 1999 season (3-0 at Hawai'i, 4-0 at Hawai'i-Hilo) and the first time overall in a series sweep since 2017 against Northwestern in Week One.
- The Sun Devils had 102 homers last year, good for 30th nationally and surpassing the program's BBCOR record of 94 from the 2019 season. ASU became just the eighth Sun Devil team in the program's illustrious history to reach 100 home runs and the first to do it since having 101 in 1990. The 2024 Sun Devils were the fastest to reach triple digits in the category in program history, doing so in 56 games.
- ASU had five Sun Devils reach doublle digit homers (Ryan Campos, Kien Vu, Brandon Compton, Jacob Tobias and Nick McLain), marking the first time at ASU since 1993 that five players accomplished the feat (Todd Cady, Doug Newstrom, Antone Williamson, Paul Lo Duca, Jacob Cruz). It was the first season that even four had reached the tally since 1994.
- 11 different Sun Devils had multiple homers - second-best in the Pac-12 - and 13 homered overall, which was also the second-most in the league.
- The 2024 Sun Devils were the first ASU team to have 13 players homer since the 2008 squad also had 13.
- ASU homered once in each of the three games against Oregon State, notable as the Beavers had allowed just 10 homers all season entering the weekend and just five total at Goss Stadium.
- ASU had six homers in its road series against UCLA, the most allowed by UCLA in a three-game series this year. ASU had four in each of its first two games against USC, the most the Trojans had allowed in a game all year. ASU had five in a game against UC San Diego, the most it had allowed and had four in two of its games against UW, also the most the Huskies had allowed. With the team's five-homer game against Stanford - the most the Cardinal had allowed at the Sunken Diamond since 2000 - ASU had five-straight series in which it has recorded at least one game with the most home runs allowed by that opponent last season.
- The Sun Devils had eight homers in the Oregon series. Unfortunately, all came of the solo variety.
- The Sun Devils continued looking for the big hit with runners on base as ASU had 49 solo homers on its 102 last season. Of the team's 49 solo homers, however, 23 were of the leadoff variety and didn't give anyone a chance to be on base while five others came as part of back-to-back homers and thus, the same principle.
- The big homers with men on base, however, increased in the last month. Five of ASU's six homers against UCLA were two-run shots and 5 of 10 against USC were multi-run bombs, as were five of its seven against UC San Diego. Seven of the ten homers against Washington were multi-run shots. Four of the 11 homers against Stanford were three-run bombs while another was a two-run shot.
- The Sun Devils hit 19 more homers during the 2023 season (83) than it did the prior year. 12 different players logged a home run last season for ASU and 10 had multiple home runs. In 2023, 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 that year - at the time two more than any other team at ASU had 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. The Sun Devils had seven players with at least seven homers last season as well.
- ASU's 83 homers in 2023 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 that year came with runners on base after 14 of the first 17 that 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 have 35 innings this season scoring at least three runs, 14 with 4+ and nine with 5+.
- ASU has outscored teams 461-272 over its last 46 regular season games dating back to last season, posting a 34-12 record in the process.
- Big innings have been the theme of ASU's season as the team has now scored in 104 halves of an inning on the year and have plated two or more runs in 68 of those - including all five innings tonight. Going back to Sunday, ASU has a crooked number in seven of its last eight innings played, recording - in order - 7, 5, 4, 2, 2, 2 and 2 runs.
- ASU has scored 93 runs in its nine conference games this season (10.3 per game) - 12 more than any other team in the league. The team is batting .363 in Big 12 games - nearly 50 points higher than any other team (next closest is .319)
- Last season, ASU has posted 68 3+ run innings and 41 4+ run innings. 21 times last season, ASU scored five or more runs in an inning.
- Seven time in the Willie Bloomquist tenure - and twice this season - the Sun Devils have recorded 20 or more hits (since 2022). The team had just eight from 2008-21 and only three from 2011-21).
- Both of ASU's 20-hit games this season have come on the road and three of the seven total under Bloomquist. Of the team's 36 games with 20+ hits from 2000-2021, only eight came on the road.
- The Sun Devils thrived in the big innings in 2023 as well, 12 times recording five or more runs in an inning. The team recorded 51 innings with three or more runs scored.
- The team has 10 or more hits in 15 games so far this season. ASU recorded 10 or more hits in 39 of 58 games last season and in nine-straight games to conclude the regular season and 16 of the last 17 in the regular season . ASU's 652 total hits last season were tops in the Pac-12 and 14th nationally.
- ASU ranks 27th nationally and 3rd in the Big 12 with a .312 batting average this season and is 47th in the country and third in the league with a .503 slugging percentage. The Sun Devils' offensive surge at the end of last year boosted its team slugging percentage to .541 on the year, good for tops in the Pac-12 and 15th nationally. The batting average was .313 for the year, tops in the Pac-12 and 12th nationally.
- ASU is fourth in the Big 12 and 58th nationally with 8.3 runs per game. Last season, the Sun Devils were second in the Pac-12 in averaging 8.3 runs per game and 29th nationally.
- The Sun Devils have outscored teams 31-7 in the first inning of its last 24 games including a 4-0 mark today. ASU allowed seven runs in the first inning in the first five games of the year alone. ASU is 15-2 when scoring in the first inning this year. ASU has held teams scoreless in the first in 19 of those 24 games.
- ASU has also been very good in the sixth inning of games, outscoring teams 30-13.
HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS
- After going 1-7 in one-run games in 2022, ASU went 7-3 and 8-5 in one run efforts in 2023 and 2024. ASU's eight wins in one run games last year were the most since the team had nine in the 2017 season.
- ASU is 5-4 in one-run games this season and is 8-5 in games decided by two runs or less after going 11-13 in such games last year.
- The team has posted the game-winning RBI/run in the sixth inning or later in eight of the team's wins so far.
- The walk-off win against UNLV in the regular season finale a year ago was ASU's sixth last season as a result of a ninth or extra-inning lead change, with walk-offs against Oregon, GCU and UW (10th inning) and UNLV and ninth-inning go-ahead runs on the road against Arizona and UNLV. ASU has two walk-offs this season.
- ASU won four games last year when trailing after eight innings and five games when trailing OR tied after 8. The team had five wins when trailing or tied after eight in 2016 and nine in 2015. ASU's four games in which it trailed after eight innings are the most since the team had five such victories in 2006.
- ASU has trailed at one point in 45 of its last 72 victories dating back to to 2023 - including seven of its wins this season.
- In 2023, 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. Last season ASU was 27-2 when leading after six, 25-2 after seven and 23-1 after eight
- The loss of ninth-inning leads against Oral Roberts and Minnesota marked just the third and fourth times ASU has lost a game where it led after eight innings under Willie Bloomquist. ASU is 84-4 under Bloomquist when leading after eight innings.
- In three 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 has nine wins in each of the last two seasons when trailing by at least three runs at some point in the game. It added its first of the 2025 season against Austin Peay.
- 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 in 2023 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.
- ASU came from behind 13-6 in the regular season finale against UNLV to walk it off in the ninth - the fourth seven-run comeback in the Bloomquist era.
- ASU has won 11 games in which it has trailed by at least five runs at some point in the game under Willie Bloomquist.
DO I KNOW YOU?
- The Sun Devils welcome an incredible 22 new faces to the roster in 2025. The class features Perfect Game's No. 17 freshman group in the country - its second-straight Top-25 class.
- The roster will feature 6 freshman arms, a notable tally considering the 2022 team didn't have a single freshman arm on the roster. Additionally, ASU added six transfer arms, including expected Saturday starter Jack Martinez (Louisiana) and potential closer Will Koger (Louisville)
- The team will feature two new middle infielders for the third consecutive season after having at least one returner up the middle from 2018-22, this year in the form of Matt King (UTSA) at short and Kyle Walker (Grambling) at second.
- 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 new pitching coach Jeremy Accardo, new hitting coach Jason Ellison and new pitching analytics coordinator Jared Matheson.
PRESEASON ACCOLADES
- Sun Devil Baseball was no stranger to collegiate baseball's preseason awards season with numerous members of the roster earning Preseason All-America, All-Conference and Top Prospect recognition.
- The Sun Devils were tied for the nation's lead with three players named to the 2025 Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List while four Sun Devils garnered at least one All-America honor.
- The pitching staff's ace, southpaw Ben Jacobs, headlines the preseason awards haul, garnering three All-America nods in addition to a spot on the Golden Spikes Watch List.
Ben Jacobs – Left-Handed Pitcher
D1Baseball Preseason All-American (3rd Team Starting Pitcher)
Perfect Game Preseason All-American (2nd Team Starting Pitcher)
NCBWA Preseason All-American (2nd Team Starting Pitcher)
2025 Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List
D1Baseball #13 Starting Pitcher
D1Baseball #28 2025 MLB Draft Prospect/#4 Big 12
All-Big 12 Preseason Team (Starting Pitcher)
Brandon Compton - Outfielder
NCBWA Preseason All-American (1st Team Designated Hitter)
2025 Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List
D1Baseball #13 Outfielder
D1Baseball #29 2025 MLB Draft Prospect/#5 Big 12
Kien Vu - Outfielder
NCBWA Preseason All-American (2nd Team Outfielder)
D1Baseball #14 Outfielder
D1Baseball #21 Big 12 2025 MLB Draft Prospect
All-Big 12 Preseason Team (Outfielder)
Jacob Tobias – First Base
NCBWA Preseason All-American (2nd Team First Baseman)
D1Baseball #6 First Baseman
Kyle Walker – Second Base
2025 Golden Spikes Award Preseason Watch List
D1Baseball #12 Second Baseman
OTHER D1Baseball Honors
Nu'u Contrades – D1Baseball #8 Third Baseman/#22 Big 12 2025 MLB Draft Prospect
Matt King – D1Baseball #34 Shortstop
Jack Martinez - D1Baseball #92 Starting Pitcher
Isaiah Jackson - #19 Big 12 2025 MLB Draft Prospect
Lucas Kelly - #31 Big 12 2025 MLB Draft Prospect
Derek Schaefer - #6 Big 12 2026 MLB Draft Prospect
Cole Carlon - #8 Big 12 2026 MLB Draft Prospect
Wyatt Halvorson - #16 Big 12 2026 MLB Draft Prospect
Landon Hairston - #4 Big 12 Impact Freshman
Ky McGary - #23 Big 12 Impact Freshman