Braden Montgomery Season 2022

Career Accolades

• Two-time Pac-12 team champion (2022-23)
• ABCA All-America second team (2023)
• ABCA All-Region first team (2023)
• Pac-12 All-Conference (2023)
• Stanford Regional All-Regional Team (2023)
• USA Collegiate National Team (2023)
• Pac-12 Freshman of the Year (2022)
• Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America (2022)
• Perfect Game Freshman All-America (2022)
• NCBWA Freshman All-America second team (2022)
• All-Pac-12 honorable mention (2022)
• Two-time John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Week (March 29, 2022, May 17, 2022)
• College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2023)
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2023)

As a Sophomore (2023) • Pac-12 Champions

• ABCA All-America second team
• ABCA All-Region first team
• Pac-12 All-Conference
• Stanford Regional All-Regional Team
• Golden Spikes Award Watch List / Midseason Watch List
• Perfect Game Preseason All-America second team
• Baseball America Preseason All-America second team
• NCBWA Preseason All-America second team
• D1Baseball Preseason All-America third team
• Perfect Game Preseason Pac-12 Player of the Year
• D1Baseball Preseason Pac-12 Player of the Year
• USA Collegiate National Team
• John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award watch list
• NCBWA Stopper of the Year watch list
• Pac-12 Preseason All-Conference
• College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
• Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
• Started all 64 games while batting .336 with 70 runs scored, 14 doubles, a triple, 17 homers and 61 RBIs
• Slugged .611 with a .461 on-base percentage while drawing a team-high 51 walks and 10 hit-by-pitches ... stole six bases in nine attempts
• Hit .289 with 28 runs scored, eight doubles, seven homers and 30 RBIs in Pac-12 play
• Batted .366 with eight runs scored, two doubles, two homers and seven RBIs during the postseason
• Finished the super regional batting .462 with two runs scored, a double and two RBIs
• Compiled 27 multi-hit games, including 11 of his last 20 overall, and hit safely in 48 of 64 games
• Posted 16 multi-RBI games, including posting five-plus on two occasions
• Had a reached base streak of 40 consecutive games snapped in the final game at USC (March 12), but reached in all but five games, including each of the final 28
• All-Stanford Regional selection after connecting for a pair of homers while batting .318 (7-for-22) with five runs scored, a double and four RBIs
• Ranked third in the Pac-12 (26th nationally) with 51 walks
• Homered in seven of his last 20 games
• Batted .455 (5-for-11) with five runs scored, two doubles, a homer and four RBIs in the series at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 17-19)
• 3-for-3 with three runs scored and his first homer of the season at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 18)
• 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 19) – the second of which drove in three runs and put the Cardinal on top in the ninth
• Homered twice and drove in five runs at Pacific (March 1) and hit .600 (9-for-15) with 11 runs scored, a double, two homers and five RBIs over four games against Pacific and CSUB
• 4-for-5 with a double and three runs scored vs. CSU Bakersfield (March 4)
• Drove in five runs while going 2-for-3 with a double and a homer vs. Oregon State (March 18)
• 2-for-3 with three RBIs and a run scored vs. Utah (March 27)
• Connected for a game-tying home run in the fifth inning before contributing the go-ahead RBI-single in the seventh at Oregon (April 16)
• Had a game-tying two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to help Stanford to a 6-5 walk-off victory over California (April 25)
• 3-for-5 with a double, a homer and four RBIs vs. Arizona (May 12)
• Homered in three straight games from May 9-13
• 2-for-5 with two runs scored, a homer and three RBIs vs. California (May 24)
• Connected for a pair of home runs vs. No. 25 Texas A&M in the Stanford Regional, including going 3-for-4 with two runs scored and a homer in the regional final (June 5)
• Earned the victory after tossing two innings and striking out three at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 19)
• Struck out four over two innings in a start vs. No. 21 Texas Tech (April 11)
• Pitched 2 1/3 innings with three strikeouts vs. No. 25 Texas A&M (June 4)

As a Freshman (2022) • Pac-12 Champions

• Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
• Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America
• Perfect Game Freshman All-America
• NCBWA Freshman All-America second team
• All-Pac-12 honorable mention
• John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year semifinalist
• Two-time John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Week (March 29, May 17)
• Hit .294 with 50 runs scored, 16 doubles, two triples and 18 home runs while driving in 57
• 18 home runs ranked third on the team and set a Stanford freshman record
• Slugged .596 and reached at a .361 clip while drawing 18 walks and nine hit by pitches
• Swiped six bases in eight attempts
• Managed seven outfield assists while playing right field
• Made 15 appearances, including three starts, pitching to a 5.79 ERA and limiting opponents to a .182 average against
• Compiled a pair of saves with 28 strikeouts over 18 2/3 innings of work on the mound
• Batted .275 with 17 runs scored, 10 doubles, a triple, eight homers and 26 RBIs in Pac-12 play
• Homered twice, scored seven runs and drove in eight runs in the postseason
• Posted 18 multi-hit games and 16 multi-RBI contests to place second on the team
• Strung together an 11-game hit streak from May 25 to June 12 while batting .306 (15 for 49) with 10 runs scored, a double, a triple, three homers and 11 RBIs
• Reached safely in each of his final 26 games of the season
• Homered in all three games and batted .462 (6 for 13) with four runs scored, a double, three homers and nine RBIs in the series sweep of Arizona State (April 8-10)
• 3 for 5 with two doubles at the plate and five strikeouts in three innings pitched at San Francisco (April 12)
• Made collegiate debut on Opening Day vs. Cal State Fullerton, striking out a pair to record his first career save in a 1-0 shutout victory (Feb. 18)
• Debuted in the field and went 3 for 5 with two home runs, six RBIs and three runs scored against Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 20) ... became first freshman with a multi-homer game since Alex Blandino hit two vs. Arizona State on April 20, 2012
• Go-ahead RBI-double in the 10th inning to hand Stanford a 1-0 victory at No. 3 Oregon State (April 1)
• Launched a pair of home runs vs. Grand Canyon (April 22)
• Homered and collected the save in a 3-2 win vs. CSUN (March 6)
• Fell a single short of the cycle (3 for 3) and drove in three runs vs. USC (May 20)
• 3 for 5 with two runs scored, a double and two RBIs vs. Binghamton (June 3)
• Invited to 50-man 2022 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp

Prior to Stanford 

• 2021 graduate of Madison Central High School in Madison, Miss.
• Guided Madison Central to a state championship and a No. 1 ranking according to Baseball America in 2021
• Mississippi Gatorade Player of the Year (2021)
• National High School All-America (2021)
• Two-time All-State first team (2019, 2021)
• No. 1 high school prospect out of Mississippi and No. 23 nationally according to Perfect Game

Personal

• Son of Marcus Montgomery and Gretchen and Richard Willock
• Father played football at Iowa
• Stepfather played football at Iowa
• Mother ran track at Iowa
• Uncle, Larry Montgomery, played football at Arizona State
• Has three siblings, Skylar, Mason and Marley