2024 Baseball Roster
Jersey Number 8
Thomas McCaffrey
- Position:
- C
- Ht./Wt.:
- 5-11 / 205
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Santa Monica, Calif.
- Major:
- Psychology
2023
- All-Big West Honorable Mention
- College Sports Communications Academic All-District VIII
- Hit .333 in 37 games starting 33 times
- Nine doubles, one triple, and four home runs among his 43 hits
- Scored 24 runs and drove in 34
- A .408 on-base percentage and .512 slugging
- Became the second player in program history joining Jeff Malinoff with five hits and six or more RBIs in a single game vs. LBSU on April 8
- Also had three runs in a game three times, a four-RBI game, and three doubles in a win over UC Riverside on May 25
- Big West Field Player of the Week April 25 from a three-HR weekend at Kansas State driving in eight runs
- Played in 44 games starting 37 times
- Hit .229 with 33 hits including 14 extra base hits and five home runs
- Scored 16 runs and drove in 27
- Career highs included four runs, two HR, and six RBI at Kansas State April 23
- Big West Spring All-Academic
- Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll with honors
- Named to Dean's List in Fall and Spring quarters
- UC Irvine Scholar-Athlete
- Won Alaska Baseball League Championship with the Anchorage Glacier Pilots
- Played in 34 games in 2021 starting 27 times
- Hit .353 (36-for-102) with four doubles, one triple, one home run, 22 RBIs, and 21 runs scored
- Made his debut March 7 at UC Riverside starting and going 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs
- Reached base in 20 of his first 21 career games
- Posted streaks of eight straight games with a hit and four straight with an RBI
- Had nine multi-hit games including three with tree hits
- Had a four-RBI game vs. Cal State Fullerton May 28
- Hit first career HR May 8 at UC Santa Barbara
- Played in all five postseason games recording a hit in each, nine in total, with three RBI, and four runs scored
- In summer ball, played in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League for Watertown Rapids hitting .221 (17-for-77) in 27 games with three doubles, nine RBIs, and eight runs scored
- Attended Harvard-Westlake High School
- CIF Division I finalist in 2019
- League champion in 2018
- Played travel ball with GBG Marucci Navy
- Middle of three siblings, has an older sister that played softball at Southwestern University, and younger brother
- Aspires to be a sports psychologist or strength trainer
- Fan of the Dodgers, Patriots, and Celtics
- Wears #8 to honor his childhood coach
- Favorite movie is The Imitation Game
- Enjoys the musical stylings of Don Toliver, JID, Deli Hours, Anderson .Paak, Graham Riley, Thundercat, and KAYTRANADA
- Lists hobbies as surfing, driving, shooting range, and going to the beach
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