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2020 Baseball Roster

Brad Young
Brad Young
Brad Young
Brad Young
Brad Young
Brad Young
Brad Young
Brad Young

34 Alex Brait

  • B/T L/R
  • Position C/OF
  • Class Senior
  • Height 6-4
  • Hometown Viera, Fla.
  • Highschool Viera HS

Biography

As a Senior [2020] | Game-by-Game Stats
Preseason All-ASUN selection
Became the first player in program history to be named to the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Watch List … Threw out a pair of runners from behind the dish, pushing him up to 26 runners caught stealing through his career … That effort ranks fourth all-time in the FGCU record book … Finished the season with a .993 career fielding percentage, which checks in at eighth all-time in the Eagle records … Appeared in all but one game during his senior campaign, starting every contest that he played in … Led the team with a total of six multi-hit games … Was featured behind the dish in 11 contests, started a few games in the outfield and DH’d once … Accounted for both the tying and winning runs during the game against Georgetown (March 10) … Capped off the year slashing .258/.323/.338 with four doubles and five RBI.  

As a Junior [2019] | Game-by-Game Stats
2019 Second Team All-Conference
Second Team All-Conference selection after leading the league with 76 hits … One of two players that started all 55 games for the Eagles, primarily doing so behind the dish … Became the first player in FGCU history to have a perfect single-season stolen base percentage with more than eight attempts (10-10) … Tied for tenth on the FGCU single-season list after catching 11 runners stealing base … Led the team with 23 multi-hit games and finished nine games with more than one RBI … Owned the team’s longest hitting streak (12 games) and at one point had a streak of reaching base safely in 17 consecutive games … Scored a single-game high four runs during the win over Bethune-Cookman (Feb. 16) …  Pushed the tying run across and layer came around as the final run to cap off the largest comeback in school history in the 10-9 victory over Lipscomb (April 6) … Scored a team-high 48 runs … His season fielding percentage .998) is the eighth-highest in a single season in FGCU history … Finished the season slashing .321/.414/.390 with eight doubles, one triple and four home runs … Added 30 RBIs and was credited with 98 total bases.

As a Sophomore [2018] | Game-By-Game Stats
2018 First Team All-Conference
1x ASUN Player of the Week (Feb. 19, 2018)

A First Team All-Conference selection after leading the Eagles with a .335 average … Appeared in 48 games with 46 starts, appearing in the outfield and behind the plate … Slashed .335/.404/.467 in his second season … Posted multi-hit games in five of the first six games of the season and multi-RBI games in four of the first seven games … Hit a walk-off single in the first game of the year against Eastern Michigan (Feb. 16), the first of three walk-offs to open the season …Hit his first home run of the year in the finale against Eastern Michigan (Feb. 18) … During the first two weeks of the season, tied his career-high with three RBI in three games (vs. Eastern Michigan Feb. 16; vs. Eastern Michigan Feb. 17; vs. ETSU Feb. 25) … Posted a career-high and tied a single-game FGCU record with four hits at Jackson State (March 31) … Later matched his career-high with three RBI on two hits against USC Upstate (April 21) … Finished the season with hits in eight of the final nine games, including four multi-hit games … Finished the season with 61 hits, five doubles, two triples, five homes runs, and 26 RBI … Also caught nine of the 28 runners attempting to steal.


As a Freshman [2017] | Game-by-Game Stats
2017 ASUN All-Freshman Team
Was one of three Eagles to earn ASUN All-Freshman Team honors … Appeared in 31 games and made 29 starts behind the plate and at DH … Ranked 3rd on the team with a .296 average … Recorded his first collegiate hit in a 3-for-3 performance vs. #2 Florida (Mar. 7) … Hit his first collegiate home run in a 3-for-4 effort vs. Rutgers (Mar. 19) … Turned in four multi-hit efforts in his first seven games and was hitting .407 … Drove in the winning run on a 8th inning RBI single at Miami (Apr. 12) as FGCU earned its first season series win against the Hurricanes in program history … Homered in a losing effort at UNF (Apr. 25) … Went 2-for-3 with a run and RBI as FGCU forced a winner-take-all ASUN Championship vs. Jacksonville (May 27).

High School
In two full seasons at the varsity level, hit .327 with 26 RBI and 23 runs scored … Turned in a .351 clip his senior year … According to Perfect Game, is the 9th-ranked catcher and 90th-ranked player in Florida … 2016 Perfect Game Honorable Mention All-American … Academic honors include: Honor Roll.

Personal
Born Jan. 21, 1998 … Son of Matthew and Jackie Brait … Has two siblings, Andrew and Anna … Engineering major … Favorite athlete is Kevin Pillar … Favorite book is Moneyball... Majoring in interdisciplinary entrepreneurial studies.

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Historical Player Information

  • 34

    2017Freshman

    C/DH
    6'4" 208 lbs
    34
  • 34

    2018Sophomore

    C/DH
    6'4" 207 lbs
    34
  • 34

    2019Junior

    Catcher/Outfielder
    6'4" 210 lbs
    34
  • 34

    2020Senior

    Catcher/Outfielder
    6'4" 210 lbs
    34