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2018 MIT Baseball Roster

6 David Heller

  • Position C/IF
  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 190
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Fair Lawn, N.J.
  • High School Bergen County Academies

Biography

2018: NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team... Started all 32 games he appeared in with a .289 batting average... Finished with 28 runs scored, 37 hits, nine doubles, two triples and one home run... Added 30 runs batted in, 53 total bases, four stolen bases, a .414 slugging percentage and a .362 on-base percentage... Recorded his first career home run vs. Babson on 4/13... Recorded at least one hit in 25 games and reached base safely in 29 of 32 games played... Had 11 multi-hit games... In early April, he picked up 11 runs batted in over a four-game stretch.

2017: Appeared in 34 games with 32 starts, posting a .227 batting average with 27 hits, 14 runs scored, four doubles, 12 RBI and 31 total bases... Drew 10 walks and had 153 putouts, which ranks second on the team... Went 3-for-4 vs. Clark on 4/3, 3-for-5 at Emerson on 4/8 and 3-for-4 with two runs scored at Babson in the NEWMAC Championship Series... Had at least one hit in 18 games, including six multi-hit games.

2016: Started all 36 games he appeared in as he finished with a .281 batting average... Posted 41 hits and 26 runs scored to go with 10 doubles, two triples and 25 runs batted in... Tallied 55 total bases, a .377 slugging percentage, a .341 on-base percentage and two stolen bases... Posted at least one hit in 24 of 36 games and reached base safely in 26 games... Tallied 12 multi-hit games, including a pair of four-hit efforts... In a home game vs. Emerson, he was 4-for-6 with five runs scored and five runs batted in.

2015: Saw action in seven games with a pair of starts as a freshman … finished the season with a .273 average with three RBI … did not commit an error in the field.

Off The Diamond at MIT: Majoring in biological engineering with a minor in science, technology and society... Doing research in the Langer Lab to fight Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis... For this work, he received the Eli and Edythe Broad Student Research Fellowship Award from the American Gastroengerological Society... Outreach Coordinator for Camp Kesem... Events Director for GlobeMed... Brotherhood Chair for PBE in Fall 2016... Camp Kesem Co-Director 2017-18... Interned at the Community Exploration and Learning Lab (CELL) at Novartis.

High School: A 2014 graduate of Bergen County Academies … Three letters in baseball … three-time All-League selection … 2014 Team MVP and Captain … also lettered in soccer … played summer ball with the Teel Ravens and North Jersey Cardinals … National Honor Society … French National Honor Society … Class President … Peer Leadership Award …HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) Chapter President … Academy Scientific (school's science magazine) Editor-in-Chief … Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist … research published in Microscopy & Microanalysis.

Club: Played club ball with the Teel Ravens and the North Jersey Cardinals.

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2015First Year

    C
    5'10" 170 lbs
    6
  • 6

    2016Sophomore

    C/INF
    5'10" 185 lbs
    6
  • 6

    2017Junior

    C/IF
    5'10" 185 lbs
    6
  • 6

    2018Senior

    C/IF
    5'10" 190 lbs
    6