2022 Baseball Roster
Baskin, Austin
Jersey Number 26
Austin Baskin
- Position:
- INF
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-0 / 198
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Covington, Tenn.
- NIL:
- R/R
Bio
Honors
2023 (Junior)
2020 (Freshman)
Prior to Memphis/Personal
- AAC Player of the Week (5/8/23)
- AAC Weekly Honor Roll (3/7/22, 5/21/23)
- Started all 55 games for the Tigers where he tallied 55 hits - 18 of them going for extra bases.
- Recorded a 40-game on-base streak that dated from May 2, 2023 to March 28, 2024. The streak is the sixth-longest in league history, just one shy of UConn's Anthony Prato's streak of 41 games for the fifth-longest in AAC history from 2018-19.
- Drew 35 walks to 34 strikeouts while carrying a .382 OBP.
2023 (Junior)
- Started a team-high 56 games between RF, LF, 2B, 3B and DH to help lead Memphis to its best season since 2017.
- Led the club with 15 doubles in 216 at-bats and hit .287 for the season, knocking in a team-leading 49 runs.
- He added nine long balls and tied for the team lead with 18 multi-hit games, including three four-hit performances.
- Logged an eight-RBI game against Tulane (5/18) in which he went 4-for-4 with three doubles.
- Started 46 games, appeared in 49 of Memphis' 57 games
- Hit .220 with four home runs, eight doubles, and 16 RBIs
- Tallied eight multi-hit games, which included consecutive three-hit games vs. Nicholls 3/4 & 3/5
- Started 24 games, appeared in 37
- Hit .231 with three doubles, a triple, two home runs, and 10 RBIs
- Had six multi-hit games
- Made collegiate pitching debut against Tulane (April 3), allowed one run on two hits in 0.2 innings
2020 (Freshman)
- Started 16 of Memphis' 17 games
- Hit .233 with two doubles, two home runs, and eight RBIs
- Had a two-HR effort with three RBIs in a 4-6 game against Western Illinois (Mar. 1)
- Had five multi-hit games
Prior to Memphis/Personal
- Lettered four seasons under Brad Warmath and Chris Messer at Covington High School
- Helped lead Covington to the 2019 state title
- Was a candidate for TSSAA Mr. Baseball in 2018
- Named All-State in 2017
- Holds Covington High School record for most RBIs in a game (10) and consecutive at-bats with a home run (3)
- Son of Randal and Lisa Baskin
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