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2023 MIT Baseball Roster

Jay VanRensselaer
Jay VanRensselaer

12 Graham Cartwright

  • Class Senior
  • B/T R/R
  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 190
  • Hometown La Jolla, Calif.
  • High School The Bishop's School
  • Major Business Analytics, Comp. Sci. and Economics

Biography

Pitching Career Highs
Innings Pitched 9.0 vs. WPI (April 27, 2022)
Strikeouts 10 vs. WPI (April 27, 2022)
Hitting Career Highs
Hits 4 vs. Clark (May 7, 2023)
Runs 3 Three times, last vs. WPI (April 25, 2023)
Doubles 1 vs. WPI (April 25, 2023)
Triples 1 at Haverford (March 28, 2023)
Home Runs 2 Twice, last vs. Babson (April 21, 2023)
RBI 6 at WPI (April 18, 2023)
Stolen Bases 2 Twice, last vs. Wheaton (April 15, 2023)
Walks 2 Three times, last vs. Emerson (April 28, 2023)


2023:
- NEWMAC Athlete of the Week (April 24)
- NEWMAC First Team All-Conference
- CSC Academic All-District
- ABCA First Team All-Region
- D3baseball.com Third Team All-Region
- NEIBA All-New England Region I First Team
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- Selected for the NEIBA All-Star Game
- CSC First Team Academic All-American
- Started all 35 games he appeared, leading the team and ranking second in the NEWMAC with a .398 batting average
- Finished with 53 hits, 33 runs scored, eight doubles and a team-high 10 home runs
- Led the team with 48 runs batted in, 93 total bases and a .699 slugging percentage
- Recorded at least one hit in 26 of 35 games, along with 17 multi-hit games and a streak of six straight multi-hit games
- Had a 10-game hitting streak towards the end of the season

2022:
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference
- NEWMAC Second Team All-Conference
- CoSIDA Academic All-District
- D3baseball.com All-Region Third Team
- ABCA Region 1 All-Region Second Team
- Posted a 6-2 record as he appeared in 13 games with eight starts
- Threw one complete game with a team-best 3.57 earned run average and two saves
- Threw a team-high 53 innings with a team-best 56 strikeouts
- Had six multi-hit games at the plate, including a 3-for-4 performance with two runs and two RBI vs. Emerson

2021:
- Did not appear in a game as season was cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
- NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team

2020:
- Appeared in two games as a rookie
- Went 2-for-4 with one run scored in his first collegiate at-bat
- Made his first career appearance on the mound at Endicott, throwing one scoreless inning with one strikeout
- Season was cancelled after three games due to Covid-19 pandemic

Favorite Sports Memory:
- Pitching a no-hitter my junior year of high school

Favorite Moment as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Beating Babson in the semifinals of the NEWMAC Tournament last year

Off the Diamond at MIT:
- Majoring in business analytics, computer science and economics with a concentration in political science
- Baseball Research and Development Intern with the San Diego Padres for the last two summers
- Have done UROPs in Political Science and Urban Studies departments
- Orientation Leader
- Member of the Chi Phi Fraternity

High School:
- Three-year letter winner in baseball and a two-year letter winner in both basketball and football
- First Team All Coastal League Baseball
- Bishop’s Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year
- Cindy Groenendyke Sportsmanship Cup Winner
- Three-Sport Varsity Athlete Award
- Union Tribune High School Athlete of Week
- Member of the Cum Laude Society and the National Chinese Honor Society

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2020First Year

    P/IF
    6'3" 175 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2021Sophomore

    P/IF
    6'3" 190 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2022Junior

    P/IF
    6'4" 190 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2023Senior

    P/IF
    6'4" 190 lbs
    12