Elijah Nunez
OPS: 0.803 (4th on team) NOTE: Brown would have been slightly higher than Byrne and Nunez if he had qualified with the PAs and Games Played
BA: .287 (started very strong and was on a trend toward .260 before getting things back on track and flirting with .300 for a brief time late in the season....up from .225 last season...must be viewed as a successful sophomore year and seems to have found a home in that lead off role)
OB%: .435 (3rd on the team and up from .375 last season..easy kid to walk...more on that soon)
SLG: .368 (last on the team and the number suffers from a lack of extra-base hitting which also moderates the OPS)
RBI: 31
TB: 82 (although he turned this into extra-bases once he got on)
ABs: 223 (3rd only to Sacco's 231 which makes sense and Luke's 224 which make very little sense from the 6/7-hole)
HITS: 64 (3rd on the team and only two behind Taylor)
HRs: 1 (I remember that one)
TRIP: 4 (easily the team leader)
DUB: 7 (stunningly low to me for some reason)
BB: 58 (1st on the team and tied for 6th nationally -- look at some of the names ahead of him (Jung, DiChiara, Robertson, Fabian) and tied with him (Lipcius and Forrester)...
SO: 48 (only Boyers had more and it wasn't close but this is an area of opportunity)
SH: 4 (had half of our sacrifice bunts and just a shade behind the nation's leader Justin Simpson from CMU with 20 /s)
SB: 31 (stats say 31 for 33 but I disagree with a couple of those and think it was more like 31-35 but still freaking awesome and 17th nationally)
FLD%: .986 and there were a few "lights" issues that don't get recorded as errors but the kid can go get it.
2022 Season = NICE IMPROVEMENT AT THE PLATE FROM HIS FIRST YEAR AND SEEMS TO FRUSTRATE PITCHERS. IMPROVE ON K'S AND MAYBE INCREASE THOSE EXTRA-BASE HITS ALTHOUGH SINGLES CAN TURN INTO DOUBLES FOR HIM ONCE HE'S ON. AS WITH ALMOST EVERYONE IN THE PROGRAM....COULD IMPROVE AGAINST LEFTIES AND HAS THE TOOLS TO DO JUST THAT. ENJOY LEADOFF HITTERS THAT ARE PESTS OF THE FIRST DEGREE.