#14 Jacob Berry Season 2025
2022 Golden Spikes Award Semifinalist
2022 Second-Team All-American (Collegiate Baseball, Perfect Game, NCBWA)
2022 Third-Team All-American (ABCA)
2022 Second-Team All-SEC
2022 LSWA Louisiana Newcomer of the Year
2022 ABCA First-Team All-South Region
Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week (March 14, 2022)
2021 Collegiate Baseball National Co-Freshman of the Year
2021 Collegiate Baseball First-Team All-American
2021 Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American
2021 NCBWA First-Team Freshman All-American
2021 Baseball America Second-Team All-American
2021 U.S. Collegiate National Team Member
2021 ABCA First Team West All-Region
2021 Pac-12 All-Conference
2021 Dick Howser Trophy semifinalist
MLB Draft: 1st Round – sixth pick overall – in 2022 (Miami Marlins)
Transferred to LSU after one season at Arizona and played as the Tigers’ starting third baseman in 2022 before being selected as the No. 6 pick overall in the MLB Draft by the Miami Marlins … signed with the Marlins in the summer of 2022.
2022 Season
Batted a team-high .370 (77-for-208) on the year with nine doubles, 15 homers, 48 RBI and 47 runs … finished No. 1 in the SEC in batting average in conference games only, hitting .400 (38-for-95) with three doubles, five homers, 20 RBI and 18 runs scored … finished No. 4 overall in the SEC in batting average (.370) and No. 4 in on-base percentage (.464) … suffered a hairline fracture to a finger on his right hand during pregame warm-ups on May 6 at Alabama; he played in the May 6 game, but then missed six straight games before appearing in the May 17 Northwestern State game as a pinch hitter … played in all three games of the Vanderbilt series (May 19-21) at DH and batted exclusively right-handed instead of his customary switch hitting; did not play in the SEC Tournament, but did play in the NCAA Hattiesburg Regional, where he hit .263 (5-for-19) with one double, one RBI and four runs … led LSU to a series win over Georgia (April 29-May 1), batting .462 (6-for-13) in three games with one double, one homer and three RBI … Berry also posted a .500 on-base percentage and a .769 slugging percentage in the series … with LSU trailing Georgia, 3-2, entering the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 3, Berry started the Tigers’ comeback with a single and scored when Cade Doughty followed with a two-run walk-off homer … led LSU to a three-game sweep of Missouri (April 21-23), batting .600 (6-for-10) with three homers, four RBI and five runs … Berry also walked three times in the series and recorded a .692 on-base percentage … he was 3-for-4 with two homers, two RBI and three runs in Game 1 victory … Berry was 2-for-3 at the plate in Game 3 with a homer, two RBI and two runs scored … named a Collegiate Baseball newspaper National Player of the Week on March 14 after he led LSU to four wins in four games during the week of March 9-13 … Berry batted .500 (9-for-18) in four games with one double, three homers, seven RBI and seven runs … he homered in each of the first three games of the week, increasing his streak to four straight games with a homer that began on March 6 versus Baylor.
2021 Season (at Arizona)
Played in all 63 games, with 62 starts, for the University of Arizona, hitting .352 with 54 runs scored, 19 doubles, five triples, 17 home runs, and 70 RBI …registered a .676 slugging percentage and drew 33 walks for a .439 on-base percentage … consensus All-American and Freshman All-American … Collegiate Baseball National Co-Freshman of the Year… Pac-12 All-Conference selection …semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy … led the team with 21 multi-RBI performances and tied for the team lead with 28 multi-hit games … led the Pac-12 in RBI, triples, total bases (167), and extra-base hits (41) and ranked among the Top 10 players in the conference in runs, hits, doubles, home runs, walks, batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage … 2021 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team participant.
High School
Attended Queen Creek (Ariz.) High School … participated in the 2019 Perfect Game National Showcase and the 2019 Area Code Games … selected to Perfect Game Preseason Underclass All-American teams in 2018 and 2019… 2020 Perfect Game Preseason All-American … finished high school career ranked as a Top-110 prospect nationally by Perfect Game and the No. 3-ranked player in Arizona.
Berry’s LSU Career Highs
At-Bats: 6 at Southern Miss (6/4/22)
Hits: 3 eight times, most recently vs. Nicholls (5/3/22)
Runs Scored: 3 four times, most recently vs. Missouri (4/21/22)
Doubles: 1 nine times; most recently at Southern Miss (6/5/22)
Triples: none
Home Runs: 2 twice – vs. Maine (2/19/22); vs. Missouri (4/21/22)
RBI: 3 five times, most recently vs. Georgia (4/30/22)