Sam Travis
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| Boston Red Sox | |||
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Samuel John Travis (born August 27, 1993) is an American professional baseball first baseman who plays in the Boston Red Sox Minor League system. Listed at 6 feet (1.80 m) and 195 pounds (88 kg), Travis bats and throws right handed. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
The Red Sox selected Travis in the second round (67th overall) of the 2014 MLB Draft out of Indiana University Bloomington, signing him for the full slot fall of $846,800. Travis has moved quickly through the system, reaching his fourth level in under a calendar year.
In his third season with the Indiana Hoosiers, Travis earned the 2013 Big Ten Most Outstanding Player of the Year honors after hitting a of .347./415/.576 in 59 games, including 16 doubles, two triples and 12 home runs, while scoring 55 times and driving in 58 runs, the most in the Big Ten Conference tournament.
Travis also played for the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox in the Cape Cod Baseball League after claiming Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors in the summer of 2012, when he finished with a sixth-best average of .339 and seventh-best OBP of .415, while adding 12 doubles, four homers and 35 RBI. A Cape League All-Star, he was named to the All-League team at the end of the summer. Besides, he won the Chicago Tribune Illinois Player of the Year distinction in 2011 and was on Team USA in 2013.
In his college tenure Travis showed advanced recognition skills as a hitter and was praised for his solid walk-to-strikeout ratio, walking 93 times while collecting 94 strikeouts in 721 plate appearances (7.67 PA/SO).
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