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Jersey Number 25
Hunter Hargrove
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 215
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Mansfield, Texas
- High School:
- Mansfield
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MLB DRAFT
Selected 751st overall in the 25th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball Draft by the Oakland Athletics.
SENIOR SEASON (2017)
Played every game of his senior campaign, totaling 62 starts at first base ... Big 12 Co-Player of the Year ... Tech's second honor by a first baseman in as many years ... Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Third Team All-American ... 36th All-American in program history ... inaugural Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award winner ... ABCA All-Midwest Region Second Team ... All-Big 12 First Team selection ... Academic All-Big 12 Second Team member ... earned NCBWA Hitter of the Week & Big 12 Player of the Week on May 1 after his performance against New Mexico & TCU ... it was his second Big 12 weekly honor of the season, also doing so on Feb. 21 after the first weekend of the year ... first Red Raider to win multiple times in a season since Eric Gutierrez in 2014 ... helped Texas Tech to its second-straight Big 12 championship & No. 5 NCAA National Seed ranking ... hit in the third, cleanup, or five-hole spot every contest, making 38 appearances as the cleanup hitter & 16 in the three-hole ... led the Red Raiders with a .343 average at the plate, finishing the season with a .343/.535/.423 ... racked up a team-best 84 hits, including 26 doubles, three triples and five homers ... his 26 doubles were the fifth-most in a single season by a Red Raider ... also totaled 51 RBI and 56 runs scored, while going 7-for-9 on the base path ... picked up 35 free passes, with 29 walks ... had a .395 batting average with 70 hits in games won ... led the team in batting average (.343), runs (56), hits (84), doubles (26), total bases (131) and games played/started (62) ... totaled 23 multi-hit games, the second-most on the squad ... his 23 games included seven three-hit games and two four-hit bids ... racked up 14 multi-RBI games, featuring five three-RBI games, two four-RBI days and a six-RBI performance against California on Feb. 26 ... his 14 multi-RBI contests also finished second on the squad ... put together a .994 fielding percentage that included 573 putouts and 40 assists ... RANKINGS ... led the Big 12 in doubles (26) and doubles per game (0.42) ... ranked third & 13th in the respective categories in the NCAA ... finished with the second-most hits in the Big 12, which ranked 52nd in the country ... was also second in the conference in runs scored, good for 76th in the NCAA ... totaled 131 bases, which put him second in the league and 82nd overall ... sat fifth in the conference in batting average and 178th overall ... also ranked fifth in RBI and 133rd nationally with 51 ... ranked fourth in the conference and 121st in toughest-to-strike-out metric, averaging 9.8 at-bats between strikeouts ... had 23 RBI in conference play, which ranked fifth in the league ... his seven doubles in Big 12 action ranked seventh ... BIG 12 GAMES ... recorded a .307 average after 24 starts in league play ... tallied 27 hits, including seven doubles, a triple and a home run ... put up 23 RBI and 15 runs, while finishing with a line of .307/.443/.426 at the plate ... NON-CONFERENCE GAMES ... tallied the second-highest batting average on the team at .363, putting together a .363/.586/.422 line at the plate ... racked up 57 hits, including 19 doubles, two triples and four dingers ... also drove in 28 RBI, while scoring 41 runs ... HOME GAMES ... rattled off a .351/.561/.453 line in 30 home games ... put up 40 hits, with 14 doubles, two triples and two homers ... totaled 32 RBI and 33 runs scored, with 18 walks & four HBP ... AWAY GAMES ... led the team in away batting average with a .349 clip ... tallied 30 hits, six doubles, a triple and two home runs ... added 14 RBI and 14 runs scored ... also picked up seven walks ... DAY GAMES ... paced the team in day games with a batting clip of .356/.589/.420 ... had 58 hits, 39 RBI and 38 runs scored in the day time ... NCAA TOURNAMENT ... recorded a .353 average in four games of the NCAA Lubbock Regional ... posted six hits, two doubles, along with four runs scored in the four-game set ... AGAINST NATIONALLY-RANKED OPPONENTS ... put together a .304 average in 19 games against ranked foes ... had 21 hits, four doubles and a homer, to go with 13 RBI and 12 runs scored ... SITUATIONAL ... notched a .518 average against left-handed pitching ... hit .394 with runners on base ... reached base 41.1 percent of the time when leading off an inning ... had a .418 average with runners in scoring position and had 16 RBI with a runner on third and less than two out for a 72.7 percent conversion rate ... was successful advancing runners 57.8 percent of the time ... tallied 16 two-out RBI ... STREAKS ... led the team with the longest hitting streak of the season at 15 games that went from the beginning of the season to March 10 ... also had another 15-game streak from April 26-June 2 ... put together five-straight multi-hit games from March 24-29, which included three-hit bids at the start & end of the period ... finished the year with an 18-game reached-base streak, which finished as the third-longest such stretch on the team.
JUNIOR SEASON (2016)
Started 24 of his 41 games played in his third year with the Red Raiders … all 24 of his starts came at third base … named to the 2016 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team … member of the 2016 Big 12 Championship winning team … helped Texas Tech clinch its second College World Series berth in three years … hit .305 with a .457 slugging clip and .379 on-base percentage … put down 32 hits, including 10 doubles and two home runs … recorded 28 RBI while scoring 14 runs, drawing 11 walks and four HBP … had five multi-hit games, including two three-hit performances … his first three-hitter came on the road at Kansas on May 8 going three-for-four with a double and a home run … the second came in the finale of the NCAA Super Regional against East Carolina, going three-for-five with two doubles, four RBI and a run scored … also had five multiple-RBI games, with two three-RBI games and one four-RBI contest … hit .387 over the last 10 games with a .581 slugging and .476 on-base clip … IN BIG 12 PLAY … hit .317 in 13 conference games, with a .537 slugging percentage and a .370 on-base percentage … recorded 13 hits, including three doubles and two homers … drove in 12 RBI, while scoring six runs … HOME GAMES … batted .250 with 12 hits, including five doubles and one homer … recorded 14 RBI and seven runs scored … ROAD/NEUTRAL SITE GAMES … pieced together a .351/.491/.423 line away from Lubbock … tallied 20 hits with five doubles and one dinger, along with six walks and four HBP … totaled 28 bases, while driving in 14 RBI and seven runs scored … also went two-for-three on stolen base attempts … AGAINST NATIONALLY RANKED OPPONENTS … hit .286 against ranked foes … totaled 14 hits, six doubles, 11 RBI and four runs scored … MIDWEEK GAMES … had the fourth-best midweek game batting average on the team at .357 … in 14 at-bats, he posted five hits and three walks … added four RBI and four runs scored … BIG 12 TOURNAMENT … hit .375 during the conference tournament … put down three hits, one double, with four RBI and one walk … COLLEGE WORLD SERIES … notched a .333/.444/.462 clip in Omaha … posted three hits, one walk and two HBP in nine at-bats … had a double, two RBI and one run scored … SITUATIONAL … put together a .414 batting average vs. left-handed pitchers … hit .355 with runners on base … found great success with bases loading, putting down five hits for an average of .714 … batted .405 with runners in scoring position, laying down 17 hits … drove in 10 RBI when a runner was on third with less than two outs for an average of .833 … was successful advancing runners 51.4 percent of the time and recorded 12 two-out RBI … STREAKS … put together the third-longest hitting streak for the Red Raiders this season at 10 … stretched over three conference series starting on April 22 against Texas to May 10 vs. Abilene Christian … racked up two multi-hit games during that time … ended the year on a three-game swing … his top reached-base streak also checked in at 10 games.
SUMMER 2015
Played for the Walnut Creek Crawdads in the California Collegiate League ... appeared in a total of 21 games ... hit .326 for the summer (28-for-86) with eight doubles, a home run, 13 RBI, seven walks and 12 runs scored ... his .326 average ranked second on the team among players with at least 80 at-bats.Photo Gallery (2017)
Photo Gallery (2016)
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MLB DRAFT
Selected 751st overall in the 25th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball Draft by the Oakland Athletics.
SENIOR SEASON (2017)
Played every game of his senior campaign, totaling 62 starts at first base ... Big 12 Co-Player of the Year ... Tech's second honor by a first baseman in as many years ... Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Third Team All-American ... 36th All-American in program history ... inaugural Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award winner ... ABCA All-Midwest Region Second Team ... All-Big 12 First Team selection ... Academic All-Big 12 Second Team member ... earned NCBWA Hitter of the Week & Big 12 Player of the Week on May 1 after his performance against New Mexico & TCU ... it was his second Big 12 weekly honor of the season, also doing so on Feb. 21 after the first weekend of the year ... first Red Raider to win multiple times in a season since Eric Gutierrez in 2014 ... helped Texas Tech to its second-straight Big 12 championship & No. 5 NCAA National Seed ranking ... hit in the third, cleanup, or five-hole spot every contest, making 38 appearances as the cleanup hitter & 16 in the three-hole ... led the Red Raiders with a .343 average at the plate, finishing the season with a .343/.535/.423 ... racked up a team-best 84 hits, including 26 doubles, three triples and five homers ... his 26 doubles were the fifth-most in a single season by a Red Raider ... also totaled 51 RBI and 56 runs scored, while going 7-for-9 on the base path ... picked up 35 free passes, with 29 walks ... had a .395 batting average with 70 hits in games won ... led the team in batting average (.343), runs (56), hits (84), doubles (26), total bases (131) and games played/started (62) ... totaled 23 multi-hit games, the second-most on the squad ... his 23 games included seven three-hit games and two four-hit bids ... racked up 14 multi-RBI games, featuring five three-RBI games, two four-RBI days and a six-RBI performance against California on Feb. 26 ... his 14 multi-RBI contests also finished second on the squad ... put together a .994 fielding percentage that included 573 putouts and 40 assists ... RANKINGS ... led the Big 12 in doubles (26) and doubles per game (0.42) ... ranked third & 13th in the respective categories in the NCAA ... finished with the second-most hits in the Big 12, which ranked 52nd in the country ... was also second in the conference in runs scored, good for 76th in the NCAA ... totaled 131 bases, which put him second in the league and 82nd overall ... sat fifth in the conference in batting average and 178th overall ... also ranked fifth in RBI and 133rd nationally with 51 ... ranked fourth in the conference and 121st in toughest-to-strike-out metric, averaging 9.8 at-bats between strikeouts ... had 23 RBI in conference play, which ranked fifth in the league ... his seven doubles in Big 12 action ranked seventh ... BIG 12 GAMES ... recorded a .307 average after 24 starts in league play ... tallied 27 hits, including seven doubles, a triple and a home run ... put up 23 RBI and 15 runs, while finishing with a line of .307/.443/.426 at the plate ... NON-CONFERENCE GAMES ... tallied the second-highest batting average on the team at .363, putting together a .363/.586/.422 line at the plate ... racked up 57 hits, including 19 doubles, two triples and four dingers ... also drove in 28 RBI, while scoring 41 runs ... HOME GAMES ... rattled off a .351/.561/.453 line in 30 home games ... put up 40 hits, with 14 doubles, two triples and two homers ... totaled 32 RBI and 33 runs scored, with 18 walks & four HBP ... AWAY GAMES ... led the team in away batting average with a .349 clip ... tallied 30 hits, six doubles, a triple and two home runs ... added 14 RBI and 14 runs scored ... also picked up seven walks ... DAY GAMES ... paced the team in day games with a batting clip of .356/.589/.420 ... had 58 hits, 39 RBI and 38 runs scored in the day time ... NCAA TOURNAMENT ... recorded a .353 average in four games of the NCAA Lubbock Regional ... posted six hits, two doubles, along with four runs scored in the four-game set ... AGAINST NATIONALLY-RANKED OPPONENTS ... put together a .304 average in 19 games against ranked foes ... had 21 hits, four doubles and a homer, to go with 13 RBI and 12 runs scored ... SITUATIONAL ... notched a .518 average against left-handed pitching ... hit .394 with runners on base ... reached base 41.1 percent of the time when leading off an inning ... had a .418 average with runners in scoring position and had 16 RBI with a runner on third and less than two out for a 72.7 percent conversion rate ... was successful advancing runners 57.8 percent of the time ... tallied 16 two-out RBI ... STREAKS ... led the team with the longest hitting streak of the season at 15 games that went from the beginning of the season to March 10 ... also had another 15-game streak from April 26-June 2 ... put together five-straight multi-hit games from March 24-29, which included three-hit bids at the start & end of the period ... finished the year with an 18-game reached-base streak, which finished as the third-longest such stretch on the team.
JUNIOR SEASON (2016)
Started 24 of his 41 games played in his third year with the Red Raiders … all 24 of his starts came at third base … named to the 2016 Academic All-Big 12 Second Team … member of the 2016 Big 12 Championship winning team … helped Texas Tech clinch its second College World Series berth in three years … hit .305 with a .457 slugging clip and .379 on-base percentage … put down 32 hits, including 10 doubles and two home runs … recorded 28 RBI while scoring 14 runs, drawing 11 walks and four HBP … had five multi-hit games, including two three-hit performances … his first three-hitter came on the road at Kansas on May 8 going three-for-four with a double and a home run … the second came in the finale of the NCAA Super Regional against East Carolina, going three-for-five with two doubles, four RBI and a run scored … also had five multiple-RBI games, with two three-RBI games and one four-RBI contest … hit .387 over the last 10 games with a .581 slugging and .476 on-base clip … IN BIG 12 PLAY … hit .317 in 13 conference games, with a .537 slugging percentage and a .370 on-base percentage … recorded 13 hits, including three doubles and two homers … drove in 12 RBI, while scoring six runs … HOME GAMES … batted .250 with 12 hits, including five doubles and one homer … recorded 14 RBI and seven runs scored … ROAD/NEUTRAL SITE GAMES … pieced together a .351/.491/.423 line away from Lubbock … tallied 20 hits with five doubles and one dinger, along with six walks and four HBP … totaled 28 bases, while driving in 14 RBI and seven runs scored … also went two-for-three on stolen base attempts … AGAINST NATIONALLY RANKED OPPONENTS … hit .286 against ranked foes … totaled 14 hits, six doubles, 11 RBI and four runs scored … MIDWEEK GAMES … had the fourth-best midweek game batting average on the team at .357 … in 14 at-bats, he posted five hits and three walks … added four RBI and four runs scored … BIG 12 TOURNAMENT … hit .375 during the conference tournament … put down three hits, one double, with four RBI and one walk … COLLEGE WORLD SERIES … notched a .333/.444/.462 clip in Omaha … posted three hits, one walk and two HBP in nine at-bats … had a double, two RBI and one run scored … SITUATIONAL … put together a .414 batting average vs. left-handed pitchers … hit .355 with runners on base … found great success with bases loading, putting down five hits for an average of .714 … batted .405 with runners in scoring position, laying down 17 hits … drove in 10 RBI when a runner was on third with less than two outs for an average of .833 … was successful advancing runners 51.4 percent of the time and recorded 12 two-out RBI … STREAKS … put together the third-longest hitting streak for the Red Raiders this season at 10 … stretched over three conference series starting on April 22 against Texas to May 10 vs. Abilene Christian … racked up two multi-hit games during that time … ended the year on a three-game swing … his top reached-base streak also checked in at 10 games.
SUMMER 2015
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2015)
Saw action in 34 games as a sophomore while making 21 starts ... played various roles for the Red Raiders with 10 starts in center field, four in right field, three in left field, two as the designated hitter and two at catcher ... hit .253 overall (23-for-91) with seven doubles, three triples, 12 RBI, eight walks, a sacrifice fly, two sacrifice bunts and 12 runs scored ... posted a .396 slugging percentage and .317 on-base percentage ... recorded four multiple-hit games and two multiple-RBI performances ... had just one fielding error in 45 chances (.978 fielding percentage) ... AGAINST NATIONALLY-RANKED OPPONENTS ... appeared in seven of 13 games against top-25 foes while making five starts ... batted .182 overall (4-for-22) with a triple, a RBI, two walks and two runs scored ... DURING BIG 12 PLAY ... saw time in 12 games against league foes while making five starts ... hit .200 overall (5-for-25) with two doubles, a walk, a hit-by-pitch and a run scored ... AT BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP ... inserted as a pinch hitter against both Texas and Baylor ... finished 1-for-2 in those opportunities with a double against Baylor ... HOME GAMES ... compiled a .224 average (13-for-58) in 19 games (14 starts) ... recorded three doubles, two triples, 10 RBI, four walks, nine runs scored and a stolen base ... ROAD/NEUTRAL SITE GAMES ... recorded a .300 average (9-for-30) which was second on the team among players with at least 30 at-bats ... added four doubles, a triple, a walk, and two runs scored ... SITUATIONAL ... finished 4-for-10 overall in pinch hit opportunities ... hit .250 with runners in scoring position (8-for-32) and .714 overall (5-for-7) with runner on third base and less than two outs ... HIT STREAK: recorded a season-high five game hitting streak (March 3-10) ... REACHED BASE STREAK: posted a season-high five game hitting streak (March 3-10) ... SEASON HIGHLIGHTS ... earned Opening Day start in center field ... was 1-for-3 with a RBI double in Red Raider debut ... followed up by going 2-for-4 with two RBI in both games of doubleheader the next day ... wrapped the San Francisco series hitting .333 overall (5-for-15) with five RBI and two doubles ... matched season high of two hits in two other games -- against Northern Illinois (2/20) and at Oklahoma.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE
Played at North Central Texas College for one season (2014) for head coach Scott Harp ... as a freshman batted .337 (61-for-181) with 44 runs, 21 doubles, three triples, eight home runs, 41 RBI and 26-for-31 stolen bases ... tallied only nine strikeouts in 204 plate appearances during the 2014 season ... posted 17 multi-hit games, including six games with at least three base hits ... went 8-for-8 in a doubleheader with six runs, a double, three home runs and six RBI against Hill College (3/19) ... NJCAA RANKINGS: 15th in doubles ... NTJCAC RANKINGS: led the league in stolen bases (26) ... second in doubles ... fourth in home runs ... fourth in slugging percentage (.619) ... sixth in total bases (112) ... ninth in triples ... 14th in runs ... 14th in RBI ... went 4-for-6 with four runs, three doubles, a triple and two RBI against Ranger College (3/15) ... had three straight four-hit games against Ranger (1 game) and Hill College (2 games).
HIGH SCHOOL
A three-year varsity letterwinner at Mansfield High School for head coach Gary Vaughan ... played every position on the field during his three-year prep career ... as a senior earned several honors, including District Most Valuable Player, North Texas High School Coaches Association All-Star, Second Team All-State, Texas Coaches Association All-Star, Heartland Classic Team Texas All-Star and Heartland Classic Tournament MVP ... as a junior, earned Team Offensive MVP, First Team All-District, First Team All-Area, THSCA All-State, TSWA Second Team All-State ... as a sophomore, earned District Newcomer of the Year, Second Team All-District and Second Team All-State ... also competed in basketball and bowling... earned Tiger Pride Award in 2011.
PERSONAL
Hunter Randolph Hargrove ... born in Arlington, Texas ... son of Randy and Jennie Hargrove ... has a younger brother, Hogan, and a younger sister, Harper ... father, Randy, played golf at Dallas Baptist ... a sports marketing major at Texas Tech.
Highlights: Cincinnati (Big 12 Tournament)
Wednesday, May 21
Behind the Mic - UC vs TTU
Wednesday, May 21
Preview Presser: Cincinnati (B12 Tournament)
Tuesday, May 20
Highlights: BYU (Game Three)
Saturday, May 17
