10/6/24

2025 Draft Prospect - 2B/SS - Jasen Oliver

 


Joe Doyle                 @JoeDoyleMiLB                Sep 16, 2024:

I quite like Indiana 2B/SS Jasen Oliver in the 2025 Draft. Makes a lot of contact and everything inside the strike zone at an elite rate. Demonstrated ability to catch up to velocity. Love the path. Peaked at 111 mph EV in 2024 and lifts the baseball. Was a true freshman

 

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Weight: 182

Height: 5-11

Position: INF

Year: Sophomore

Hometown: Almont, Mich.

High School: Orchard Lake St. Mary's Prep

 

2024 (Freshman Season)

Awards: All-Big Ten Freshman Team selection (2B) … Big Ten Freshman of the Week selection (4/1) after hitting .550 (11-20) with three home runs, seven runs and seven RBIs across five games.

Records: Set single game freshman RBI record (8 – at Minnesota) … seventh freshman in program history to hit 10+ home runs in a single season.

Season: Played in 48 games with 44 starts, all but one at second base … collegiate debut came on the mound in relief against Arizona (3/3) … first career at-bat was against Troy in the first game of a doubleheader (3/10) … recorded a hit in 31 of his 44 starts … finished the season with 12 multi-hit games … held a season-long 13-game hitting streak from March 16th (Belmont) to April 5th (Maryland) … his hitting streak was sixth longest by a true freshman at IU since 2010 … first career home run came against Middle Tennessee State (3/26) as part of a multi-home run effort … recorded four contests with at least four RBIs – including freshman single game record (8 – at Minnesota) … hit go-ahead home run in Big Ten Tournament opener vs. Purdue (5/21) … became seventh freshman in program history with 10-or-more home runs in a season … homered in final at-bat of his season against Southern Miss in the NCAA Regional (6/2) to reach 10 home runs … hit a three-run home run in the second inning against Michigan (5/17) as part of a two-home run contest.

 

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Indiana baseball second baseman Jasen Oliver won Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, the conference announced Monday afternoon.

From March 26-31, Oliver batted .550 and knocked three homers and seven RBIs while extending his hitting streak to 11 games. The award marks Indiana’s first since now-sophomore Tyler Cerny won it April 24 last year.

In 18 games played this season — and 13 starts — Oliver boasts a .388 batting average and 1.153 OPS. Oliver’s reliable glove, which head coach Jeff Mercer has lauded throughout the season, has made him a regular in the lineup over junior Brandon Burckel, who began the year as the starting second baseman.

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