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2022 Baseball Roster

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9 Ben Klutts

  • Position Infielder
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Poteau HS
  • Hometown Poteau, Okla.

Biography

Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference (2022)
Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award Watch List (2022)
Senior CLASS Award Candidate (2022)
First Team All-Sun Belt Conference (2021)
SBC Player of the Week (May 11, 2021)
CoSIDA Academic All-District (2021)


2022 (SENIOR)
Team leader in home runs (11), which is tied for ninth-most by an A-State player in a single season, and RBIs (39) … Slashed .276/.379/.514 in his final season … Third on the team in slugging (.514) and second in on-base percentage (.379) … Second on the squad in runs scored (34) … Ended the year on a eight-game hitting streak and career-long 14-game on-base streak … Drove in three with a homer at ULM (5/19) … Went 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs against Georgia State (5/13) … Scored four times on two hits while driving in three runs and homering at Memphis (5/10) … Homered twice and drove in a career-high five RBIs as part of a monster 3-for-5 day at UT Arlington (4/30) … Went 2-for-3 with two runs against Troy (4/22) … Hit a two-run homer at Little Rock (4/15) … Went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs the day before against the Trojans (4/14) … Drove in two on two hits, including a homer versus Coastal Carolina (4/2) … Doubled and scored as part of a 2-for-3 day with a pair of walks against Southern Illinois (3/9) … Homered and drove in two runs against Southeast Missouri (3/8) … Went 2-for-4 with a home run versus Illinois State (3/5) … Hit a 3-run double against the Redbirds the day before (3/4) … Drove in three on two hits versus Mississippi Valley State (3/2) … Hit his first homer of the eyar at Ole Miss (2/23) … Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference selection … One of just 44 players in college baseball named to the preseason watch list for the Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award … Collegiate Baseball preseason SBC Player of the Year … One of 30 players on the Senior CLASS Award candidate list.

2021 (JUNIOR)
First Team All-Sun Belt Conference … Started all 49 games at third base … Hit a solid .320 on the year, while bolstering his average to .340 in league play … Led the team with 63 hits and 16 doubles while belting seven homers and driving in 28 runs … Slugged an impressive .518 while being hit by pitch a team-high 15 times … Recorded 18 multi-hit games, including a stretch of seven straight that helped him earn Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week honors (May 11) … Tallied seven multi-RBI games … Went 4-for-5 with a pair of doubles at Texas State (April 24) … Scored four runs in a 3-for-4 day at Louisiana (April 11) … Went 3-for-4 with two runs at Oklahoma (March 14).

2020
Started all 16 games in the shortened season … Notched a team-high .364 average and 24 hits … Scored 16 runs while driving in 10 RBI … Registered a stellar .515 slugging percentage, .447 on-base percentage and a .913 fielding percentage …  Walked six times and was hit by pitch four times … Recorded three hits, three runs scored and a tiple versus Mississippi Valley State (Feb. 26).

JUNIOR COLLEGE
Played two seasons at Carl Albert State College … Received NJCAA Div. 2 Region Gold Glove honors in 2018 and 2019 ... Garnered All-Conference and All-Region recognition in 2019 ... Hit .360 in his junior-college tenure … Homered 18 times while doubling 19 times ... Drew 39 walks … He drove in 67 runs over his two seasons ... Second-team Academic All-American.

HIGH SCHOOL
Prepped at Poteau High School … Earned Oklahoma all-state honors in 2017 … Was also a three-year letter winner in basketball and football.

PERSONAL
Son of Kip and Suzanne Klutts.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 9

    2020Junior

    INF
    6'3" 205 lbs
    9
  • 9

    2021Junior

    Infielder
    6'3" 205 lbs
    9
  • 9

    2022Senior

    Infielder
    6'3" 220 lbs
    9