2014 Baseball

25 Taylor Sparks

  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 225
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Long Beach, Calif.

Biography

2014
 
  • National Collegiate Writers Baseball Association preseason first-team All-American
  • Collegiate Baseball "Louisville Slugger" preseason third-team All-American
  • Baseball America preseason first-team All-American
  • Perfect Game preseason first-team All-American
  • College Sports Madness preseason first-team All-American
  • College Sports Madness projected Big West Player of the Year
 
2013
 
  • Big West Co-Player of the Year
  • All-Big West Conference first-team
  • American Baseball Coaches Association Gold Glove winner
  • ABCA All-West Region second team
  • Collegiate Baseball “Louisville Slugger” third-team All-American
  • Big West Player of the Week
  • Ranked 93rd in the country and second in the Big West in hits with 80
  • Ranked 93rd in the nation and second in the conference in batting average at .360
  • Topped the conference and 60th in the country in slugging with a .581 clip
  • 68th in the country in home runs with 10 and 64th in home runs per game (.18)
  • 58th in total bases with 129
  • Fifth in the Big West with four triples
  • Posted 11 doubles
  • Career-high five RBI against Hawai’i
  • Personal-best five hit-game against Pacific
  • Owned a 10-game hitting streak and reached safely in 14 consecutive games
  • Logged 23 multiple-hit games and a team-high 11 multiple-RBI games
  • Played with Team USA over the summer
  • Voted the top American player in the USA-Japan series
  • Batted a team-best .396 with 21 hits and 10 RBI
  • Scored 11 runs and had seven steals
 
2012
 
  • Recorded 25 hits and drove in 12 runs in his first year
  • Had five doubles and three triples
  • Led the team with three home runs
  • Scored 20 runs and stole a pair of bags
  • Went 4 for 5 against Cal State Bakersfield for a career-high
  • Drove in a season-high two runs versus Dartmouth and Pacific
  • Five multiple-hit games and three multiple-RBI games
  • Longest hit streak was four games
  • Spent the summer with the Wenatchee Apple Sox
  • Helped the club win its fifth West Coast League championship
  • Drove in three runs in the championship game
  • Voted a Summer Collegiate All-America third team by Perfect Game
  • Named the top prospect out of the West Coast League by Baseball America
  • Hit 11 home runs to win the WCL Home Run Derby
 
St. John Bosco High  School
 
  • All-Trinity League first-team honoree as a senior
  • Also lettered in football
 
Personal
 
  • Two-time Big West scholar-athlete
  • Voted the 2008-09 Scholar-Athlete of the Year
  • Parents are Julie and Don
  • Has two siblings, Jake and Kadie
  • Majoring in sociology
 

Career Highlights
 

AB: 6 vs. CS Northridge, 4/12/13
H: 5 at Pacific, 4/20/13
R: 3 vs. Texas southern, 2/19/12; at UC Santa Barbara, 5/3/13
2B: 1 multiple times
3B: 1 multiple times
HR: 2 vs. Hawaii, 4/7/13
RBI: 5 vs. Hawaii, 4/7/13



 

CAREER TOTALS
YearAVG.GP-GSABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSB-ATT
2012.20245-3912420255331211442-3
2013.36055-55222388011410506407-10
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Totals.303100-9434658105167136217849-13

 

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 25

    2012Freshman

    INF
    6'4" 210 lbs
    25
  • 25

    2013Sophomore

    INF
    6'4" 215 lbs
    25
  • 25

    2014Junior

    INF
    6'4" 225 lbs
    25