2013 Baseball Roster
Roster
Mitch Slauter
- Position:
- C
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 210
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Olathe, KS
- High School/Previous School:
- Olathe North HS
CAREER:
Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll twice ยท Played in 101 games for MSU, starting in 89 of them ยท Hit .235 in two years with the Bulldogs, smashing four home runs and driving in 38 runs.
2013:
SEC Academic Honor Roll ยท Played in 37 games, starting 27, mostly at catcher ยท Hit .242 with 11 runs scored, 6 doubles, a triple and a home run to go along with 15 RBI ยท Drove in a pair of runs against Kentucky on March 22 ยท Against Southern Miss in Pearl on March 12, was 1 for 3 with a double and 2 RBI ยท On March 8 against Central Arkansas, hit an RBI double ยท Hit an RBI double on March 5 against Mississippi Valley State ยท Was 2 for 5 with a pair of runs scored and a triple on February 26 vs. Rhode Island ยท 2 for 3 with a homer, three runs scored and two RBI on February 17 against Portland ยท On Opening Day against Portland, was 4 for 6 with two RBI and a double.
2012:
Bulldogs' starting catcher in 62 of 64 games โข Hit .232 and ranked second on the club with 35 runs scored and fifth with 51 hits โข Opening day starting catcher against Washington State (Feb. 17) โข Registered his first collegiate hit and the first of 11 multiple-hit games a day later against the Cougars โข Caught but did not start behind the dish against Mississippi Valley State (Feb. 25) and at Southeastern Louisiana (Mar. 14) โข Doubled in two runs against MVSU (Feb. 25) for the first of his five multi-RBI games โข Set a career-best for hits with a 3-for-4 outing against Arkansas (Mar. 23) โข Registered four-hit SEC weekend series against Arkansas (4-for-10), at Auburn (4-for-13) and Ole Miss (4-for-12) โข Registered four game-winning RBI, including an 11th-inning sacrifice fly in the series-opener Tennessee (Apr. 19) โข Fielded at a .990 clip and threw out 15 potential base-stealers while picking off four others โข Hit .225 with six extra-base hits and 11 RBI in league play โข Closed the year with a six-game postseason hitting streak โข Hit .364 (4-for-11) in the NCAA Tallahassee Regional and was named to the regional's all-tourney team โขย Earned a berth on the 2012 SEC Academic Honor Roll.
JUNIOR COLLEGE:
First-team all-conference and all-region catcher at Barton (Kans.) Community College โข Coached by Mike Warren โข Hit .353 in 56 games started with the Cougars โข Delivered 67 hits, 50 RBI, 13 doubles and five home runs in 2011 โข Also pilfered 12 bases โข Honored as the Jayhawk Community College Conference Defensive Player of the Year โข Hit .343 in 2010 with 58 hits, 47 RBI and 24 extra-base hits, including eight home runs โข Earned second-team all-conference honors as a freshman.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Four-year veteran and three-year starter as a catcher and infielder at Olathe High School โข Coached by Jason Herman โข Hit .333 with two home runs and led the Eagles with 16 RBI โข Named to the All-Olathe Baseball Team and earned second-team honors on MaxPrep's All-Sunflower Team.
PERSONAL:
Born Mitch Scott Slauter on May 10, 1991 in Grand Rapids, Mich. โข Son of Tresa and Darryl Slauter of Olathe, Kans. โข Majoring in criminology.
