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2017 MIT Baseball Roster

10 John Drago

  • Position IF
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 190
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Peoria, Ariz.
  • High School Sunrise Mountain

Biography

2017: CoSIDA Third Team Academic All-American... CoSIDA Academic All-District... NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team... NEWMAC Academic All-Conference... Started all 36 games with a .313 batting average... Posted 46 hits with 10 doubles and two home runs, along with 25 runs scored, 21 RBI and 62 total bases... Finished with a .422 slugging percentage and a .393 on-base percentage.... Was successful on 11-of-13 stolen base opportunities and posted a .984 fielding percentage... Had a season-high 10-game hitting streak at one point while registering at least one hit in 29 games and reaching base safely in 32 games... Posted 13 multi-hit games... Had a streak of five multi-hit games, including a 4-for-5 game with three runs scored and a walk at WPI on 4/29... Homered twice at Coast Guard on 3/25 in game two of a doubleheader... was 11th in the NEWMAC in stolen bases with 11 and 13th in walks with 17... Was also 16th in doubles with 10.

2016: NEWMAC All-Conference Second Team... NEWMAC Academic All-Conference... CoSIDA Academic All-District... CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team... Started all 35 games he appeared in, posting a .279 batting average in 146 at-bats... Tallied 41 hits, 42 runs scored, eight doubles, one triple and two home runs... Added 21 runs batted in and totaled 57 bases... Drew 17 walks and was a perfect 4-for-4 in stolen base opportunities... Recorded at least one hit in 25 of 35 games played and reached base safely in 27 games... Posted 13 multi-hit games, including a pair of three-hit games and five consecutive two-hit games midway through the season.

2015: Started at second base for the Engineers as a sophomore … CoSIDA Academic All-District … Academic All-NEWMAC … played in 40 games with 39 starts … put together a .240 average with a pair of home runs and 11 RBI … second on the NEWMAC and fourth in the nation with 38 walks … second on the squad in runs scored (47) … also second in steals (7) … third among regulars in on-base percentage (.419) … tied for fourth on the team with nine doubles.

2014: Outstanding rookie season with the Engineers … NEWMAC Rookie of the Year … started 34 of the 36 games he played, splitting time between the infield and outfield … first team All-NEWMAC … All-Region by d3baseball.com … NEWMAC Player of the Week (4/7) … hit .324 with five home runs and 21 RBI … third on the team in hitting … second in home runs and slugging (.532) … led the squad in walks (26) and on-base percentage (.448) … shared the team and NEWMAC lead with three triples … top-10 in the NEWMAC in runs, doubles, home runs, RBI, OBP and slugging … finished among the top-100 players in Division III in walks, walks per game and home runs … nine multi-hit games … five multi-RBI outings … 17-game hitting streak was the longest of the season for MIT … doubled and drove in a run in his first collegiate outing against Tufts (3/15) … 4-for-8 in the 15-inning game against Springfield (3/25) … 3-for-4 with a double and triple and an RBI at Trinity (4/2) … went 3-for-3 with a pair of walks against Emerson (4/4) … the next day against the Lions he hit his first home run of the season as part of a 2-for-6 day, driving in four and scoring twice … homered again against Emerson in game two … 3-for-4 with a triple at Babson (4/12) … 2-for-2 with three walks and a home run vs. WPI (4/17) … home run and three RBI at Springfield (4/28) to help the Engineers take the NEWMAC playoff series from the Pride … 2-for-4 in each game of the doubleheader sweep at Wheaton (5/3) that gave MIT the NEWMAC title … 4-for-5 outing against #10 Eastern Connecticut (5/15) at the NCAA Tournament.

Off The Diamond at MIT: Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in biological engineering … research in MIT’s Grodzinsky Lab on osteoarthritis … Did internships at Smith & Nephew and Advanced Surgical Devices... Member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society and the Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society... President of Chi Phi... Member of the Student and Affiliates Health Insurance Advisory Committee and Chair of the IFC Sexual Misconduct Committee... MIT Orientation Leader.

High School: A 2013 graduate of Sunrise Mountain High School … three-time letterwinner in baseball as an infielder/outfielder … first team all- district outfielder (2013) … District Scholar Athlete (2012, 2013) … team captain … also lettered in football … first team all-district defensive back (2012) … team captain … National Honor Society … student body vice president … DECA treasurer … Spirit Club founder … DECA State Champion (2012) … Honor Roll four years.

Club: Played club ball with the Pilots, Athletics and Angels club teams.


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Historical Player Information

  • 10

    2014First Year

    INF
    5'11" 175 lbs
    10
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    2015Sophomore

    INF
    5'11" 185 lbs
    10
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    2016Junior

    INF
    5'11" 185 lbs
    10
  • 10

    2017Senior

    IF
    5'11" 190 lbs
    10