Catcher/Designated Hitter
6-3 • 220 •
Senior • L/R
Bay Village, Ohio
Bay Village High
School
Career Stats
2007 Summer: Named
First-Team All-Great Lakes Summer
Collegiate League as a first baseman
for the Columbus All-Americans ...
hitting cleanup in the wooden-bat
league, he hit .350 during the
regular season and ranked
second in the league total bases,
third in home runs and fourth in
hits and runs scored. ... went
8-for-12 with four runs scored in
four postseason games to help lead
the All-Americans to the Great Lakes
League title ... named to the all
star team ... helped lead the
All-Americans to a final No. 14
ranking by pgcrosschecker.com.
2007: Earned Second-Team
All-Horizon League honors as a
designated hitter after batting a
career-best .362 with 42 runs
scored, eight homers and 44 RBIs ...
upped his career RBI total to 127
(just 11 shy of the YSU record), and
his home run total to 21 (five shy
of the YSU record) ... ranked among
the top 10 hitters in the Horizon
League in nine different offensive
categories (No. 3 in home runs; No.
5 in total bases; No. 6 in average,
hits, RBIs and slugging; No. 8 in on
base percentage and triples; No. 9
in runs scored) ... led the team in
slugging, RBIs, homers, walks (20),
hit by pitch (10) and sacrifice
flies (4) ... collected 22-multi-hit
games and a team-high 12 multi-RBI
games ... had a career-long 19-game
hitting streak from March 10 to
April 4, which is the sixth-longest
in school history ... had a career
day against Butler on April 24,
going 4-for-6 with two home runs – a
grand slam and a three-run homer -
and nine RBIs ... named the Horizon
League Player of the Week and was
listed on the College Baseball
Foundation’s National Honor Roll on
March 26 for his efforts ... hit
.388 against right-handed hurlers
... was held hitless in back-to-back
games only once ... batted .500 with
two home runs, seven runs scored and
seven RBIs in four games at the
Horizon League Tournament ... went
4-for-6 with a homer, four runs
scored and three RBIs against Butler
in the tournament (5/24) ... hit
safely in the final six games of the
season, and had at least two hits in
each of the final five games.
2006:
Was a First-Team All-Horizon League selection as a designated hitter
... set career-high numbers in nearly every offensive category ...
set the school record for RBIs in a season with 58 ... his 75 hits
were the fifth-most in school history while his nine home runs tied
for fourth-most ... racked up 120 total bases, which was the
second-most in school history ... started 54 out of 55 games,
including 22 at catcher, 21 at DH, six in right field, five in left
field ... hit third in 29 games and cleanup in 24 ... ranked second
in the Horizon League in RBIs and finished in the top 10 in average,
hits, slugging percentage, on base percentage, home runs, total
bases, walks and times hit by pitch ... hit .357 overall, .441
against lefties and .392 with runners in scoring position ...
registered a team-high 19 multi-RBI games and 22 multi-hit games ...
was held hitless in back-to-back games only twice ... reached base
in 49 games ... also had eight sacrifice bunts ... had a tremendous
start to the season, hitting .405 with five home runs and 25 RBIs in
March... homered in three straight games from March 16 to March 18
... posted a season-high 12-game hitting streak from Feb. 25 to
March 18 ... also had a seven-game hitting streak from April 23 to
May 5, and he ended the year on an eight-game streak ... was named
the Horizon League Player of the Week on March 14... recorded a
career-best four hits and drove in four runs at Morehead State
(3/15)... also drove in four runs and scored three times at
Cleveland State (5/20) ... scored a career-best three runs against
West Liberty (3/23) and Illinois-Chicago (5/6).
2005:
Named to Horizon League All-Newcomer team ... started 26 games behind
the plate and 16 as the designated hitter ... recorded 13 multi-hit
games and eight multi-RBI games ... was a clutch hitter all season,
hitting .450 with runners in scoring position and collecting 18
two-out RBIs ... led the team in home runs (6), triples (2) and
sacrifice flies (5) ... ranked second in slugging percentage (.500) and
third in total bases (75) and RBIs (33) ... hit .467 (28-for-60) with
13 runs scored and 14 RBIs over an 18-game span from April 16 to May
18 ... had a nine-game hitting streak from April 16 to May 7 over which
he hit .429 with six runs scored ... posted a career-high six RBIs
against IPFW as he hit a grand slam and a two-run homer (4/3) ... hit
a three-run home run earlier in the week against Duquesne
(3/29) ... also homered against Kent State (5/8) as part of a 2-for-3
performance and at UIC (5/15) ... hit 9-for-16 with six RBIs and three
runs scored in four games against UIC ... posted his first career
four-hit game against the Flames and collected three RBIs
(5/14) ... went a combined 4-for-6 with four runs scored in a
doubleheader against Wright State (4/30) ... .had his first career
three-hit game against the Raiders in game two ... hit a three-run
homer and scored twice against UW-Milwaukee in the Horizon League
Tournament (5/28).
2004:
Redshirted.
High School:
Was a four-year letterwinner ... and team captain one year ... holds the
school record for most walks ... was an all-conference and honorable
mention selection ... team was district champs and regional
semi-finals runner-up ... also lettered three years in basketball.
Personal:
Awarded the James and Margaret Cook
Scholarship for the 2007-08 academic
year ... son of Frederick and Linda Diedrich ... has one sister ... major is
exercise science ... born March 31, 1985. |