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Cayden Wallace Season 2021-22

PosINF/OF
Wt205 lbs
Ht6-1
YrSo.
HometownGreenbrier, Ark.
B/TR/R
MLB Draft
2022 – Kansas City Royals, 2nd round (No. 49 overall)

Sophomore (2022)
» ABCA/Rawlings South All-Region Team
» SEC Co-Player of the Week (March 14)
» Collegiate Baseball Newspaper National Player of the Week (March 14)
» Karbach Round Rock Classic All-Tournament Team
» NCAA Stillwater Regional All-Tournament Team
» Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll

Team captain ... Only Razorback player to start all 67 games (all 67 at third base), slashing .298/.387/.553 with a team-leading 16 home runs and a team-best 60 runs batted in ... Scored a team-leading 62 runs ... Recorded 82 base hits, including a team-high 20 doubles and one triple ... Drew 38 walks and was intentionally walked a team-high six times ... Plunked by five pitches ... Tallied a team-leading 152 total bases ... Stole a team-leading 12 bases in 13 attempts ... Led Arkansas in nine offensive categories: slugging percentage (.553), runs scored (62), runs batted in (60), doubles (20), home runs (16), total bases (152), stolen bases (12), total plate appearances (323), at-bats (275) ... Also led the Razorbacks in multiple RBI games with 16, including six three-RBI performances, three four-RBI efforts and one six-RBI game ... Had 21 multi-hit games, tied with C Michael Turner for second most on the team ... Posted a season-long hitting streak of 12 games, tied with OF Chris Lanzilli and C Michael Turner for longest on the team ... 22-game reached base streak was tied for third longest on the Hogs ... Led all SEC hitters in plate appearances (323) and at-bats (275) ... Tied for third among SEC hitters in doubles (20) and ranked seventh in total bases (152) ... Defensively, committed 11 errors in 150 total chances (.927 fielding percentage) ... Helped turn 10 double plays ... In SEC play, slashed a team-leading .310/.373/.543 with six homers and a team-high 24 RBI ... Had 40 hits, including 12 doubles, against SEC opponents, most among all Arkansas hitters ... Collected a season-best four hits, including two doubles, with two runs scored, an RBI and a stolen base vs. Indiana (Feb. 25) in the Karbach Round Rock Classic at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas, helping him earn a spot on the All-Tournament Team ... Swatted his first home run of the season as part of a three-hit day in game one of a doubleheader against UIC (March 10), driving in three runs and scoring three runs in the ballgame ... Clobbered a grand slam against UIC (March 12) ... Tallied a season-high six runs batted in against UIC (March 13), four of which came on his second grand slam in as many days ... Earn SEC Co-Player of the Week honors following the UIC series, finishing the four-game set with a .333/.350/.833 slash line, three homers and a team-leading 13 RBI ... Drew a season-high three walks against Grambling (March 16) ... Drove in four runs on two hits, including a double, against Mississippi State (April 2) ... Matched his season high with three walks against Mississippi State (April 3) ... Swiped a season-best two bases against UCA (April 5) ... Homered twice and drove in four runs against No. 24 Vanderbilt (May 14) ... In the NCAA Tournament, slashed .313/.393/.688 with a team-leading five homers and 12 runs batted in ... Named to the NCAA Stillwater Regional All-Tournament Team after posting a .353/.500/1.059 slash line with a team-best four homers and eight RBI ... Clobbered two home runs and totaled three RBI vs. Grand Canyon (June 3) ... Had a home run with two runs batted in and a pair of walks at No. 6 Oklahoma State (June 4) ... Homered for the fourth consecutive game at No. 6 Oklahoma State (June 5), collecting three RBI on three hits ... In the College World Series, slashed .292/.320/.542 with a home run and three runs batted in ... Hit a homer and drove in three runs vs. No. 2 Stanford (June 18) ... Entered the campaign as a preseason All-SEC selection by the league's coaches ... Earned a spot on the preseason watch list for the USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award ... Helped Arkansas set a new school record in fielding percentage with a .982 mark for the year.

Freshman (2021)
» Baseball America Freshman All-American (Second Team)
» Freshman All-SEC Team
» SEC Co-Freshman of the Week (April 12, April 19)
» SEC Freshman of the Week (May 24)
» First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll


Became the 24th Razorback in program history to earn Freshman All-America status ... Started and played in 60 games (48 in right field, seven at third base, four in left field, one as designated hitter), slashing .279/.369/.500 with 14 homers and 44 runs batted in ... Scored 52 runs ... Racked up a team-leading 67 hits, including 11 doubles, while taking 29 walks (one IBB) ... Plunked by seven pitches ... Totaled 120 bases on the year ... 17 multi-hit games, including a team-leading seven three-hit performances ... 12 multi-RBI games, tying INF Cullen Smith with a team-best three three-RBI efforts ... Recorded a season-long hitting streak of 11 games and team-leading reached base streak of 24 consecutive games ... Played errorless defense, recording 90 putouts and 10 assists with a perfect fielding percentage (1.000) ... Finished the season as one of two Razorback defenders, along with OF Christian Franklin, to post an unblemished fielding percentage in 100-plus chances ... Made his collegiate debut in the season opener against No. 3 Texas Tech (Feb. 20) in the State Farm College Baseball Showdown at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, picking up his first base hit with two runs scored and a walk ... Launched his first collegiate home run against SEMO (Feb. 26), driving in the first two runs of his career ... Recorded his first three-hit game on the road at Louisiana Tech (March 13), homering and driving in two runs in the contest ... Delivered a three-hit, three-RBI day against Memphis (March 23) ... Swatted a home run at No. 3 Ole Miss (April 11), driving in three runs in Arkansas' series-clinching win to earn SEC Co-Freshman of the Week honors ... Provided a pair two-RBI efforts in the three-game series against Texas A&M (April 17-18), collecting SEC Co-Freshman of the Week honors for the second time ... Carded his first four-RBI game against Arkansas State (May 11), hitting the first grand slam of his collegiate career ... First multi-homer effort came against No. 9 Florida (May 20), driving in four runs on three hits to garner SEC Freshman of the Week recognition for the third time in 2021 ... Hit a three-run homer against NJIT (June 4) in the NCAA Fayetteville Regional ... Two hits, including a solo home run, against No. 16 NC State (June 13) in game three of the NCAA Fayetteville Super Regional ... Tied OF Heston Kjerstad for the Arkansas freshman record for home runs in a season with 14 ... Part of a Razorback offense that hit a school-record 109 home runs in 2021 … Helped Arkansas set a school record in fielding percentage with a .980 mark for the year.

High School
Played for head coach Larry Flake at Greenbrier High School in Greenbrier, Ark. ... Top prospect in Arkansas according to Perfect Game and No. 25 player in the nation … 2019 Perfect Game All-American and Under Armor All-American … Played in the 2019 PG National Showcase and the 2017 and 2018 Junior National Showcase … Hit .343 over the summer with the Arkansas Prospects travel team, helping them to a fifth-place finish at the PG WWBA National Championship that involved 372 teams … Finished second at the 2019 Perfect Game All-American Classic Home Run Derby … Named First Team All-Arkansas Preps in 2019 … Hit .514 as a junior at Greenbrier with 22 RBIs, 38 hits, including six home runs … Was named the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette River Valley and Ozark Edition Player of the Year … Helped Greenbrier to back-to-back state semifinals appearances in 2017 and 2018 … Named 2019 5A All-State player as a junior.
Cayden Wallace

Fr.
2020-21

INF/OF
6-0 / 205 lbs