Kane Kepley, OF - north carolina
Prospects
Live Ranking - #52
A late
transfer addition for Coach Scott Forbes, North Carolina adds one of the most
stable players available in Kane Kepley.
Producing a .330/.482/.521 slash line for Liberty this past season,
Kepley has incredible ability to make contact and spray the baseball to all
fields. Most of his extra base hits were
hit to his pull side, though don’t expect much from a power standpoint with
him. Kepley’s strengths are both his
on-base skills and speed, as he drew 53 walks against just 27 strikeouts while
swiping 25 bags in 2024. He has
sufficient defensive instincts in both center and right field though having a
fringe arm. Kepley played this past
summer in the Cape with the Hyannis Harbor Hawks, earning All Star honors
thanks to a .449 on base percentage and swiping over 20 bags in 38 games
played. Kepley will be an intriguing
prospect to follow this spring, as he will be set to face tougher competition
in the ACC while aiming to keep both his contact and whiff rates consistent
with 2024.
https://libertyflames.com/sports/baseball/roster/kane-kepley/14048
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2023
2023 ASUN
All-Freshman team
Played in
50 games with 40 starts
Started
29 games in left field and 11 games in center field
Hit .310
with 19 RBI and a team-leading 44 runs scored
Had eight
doubles, four triples and hit a home run
Walked a
team-leading 39 times and posted a .457 on base percentage
Had 17
stolen bases
Finished
the year tied for third in triples, tied for sixth in stolen bases and 11th in
on base percentage in the ASUN
Hit .325,
collecting 37 hits and walking 30 times in 30 games after taking over as the
Flames’ leadoff hitter on April 6
Scored
46.6% (34-of-73) of the time that he reached base after becoming leadoff hitter
Had two
hits and a RBI, stole two bases and scored three times in 12-1 win over Austin
Peay (3/24)
Collected
three hits, two stolen bases, a RBI and a run scored in a 9-4 victory at
Lipscomb (4/2)
Had two
hits against Virginia (4/4)
Went
3-for-4 with a walk and an RBI, scoring three times in an 11-6 win over Central
Arkansas (4/7)
Walked
twice and scored twice in a 7-3 victory at Virginia Tech (4/11)
Collected
three hits, two doubles, two RBI and one run scored in a 9-1 win in game two of
a doubleheader at Kennesaw State (4/15)
Walked
two times and scored two times in 3-2 victory over Old Dominion (5/3)
Tied the
program record with six hits, hitting for the cycle, driving in a run and
scoring three runs in a 15-12 victory at Eastern Kentucky (5/14)
Had two
hits, including a triple, two RBI and two runs scored in a 12-11 win over No. 1
seed Lipscomb during pool play at the 2023 ASUN Baseball Championship (5/23)
Member of
the ASUN Academic Honor Roll
In
Saturday's Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game, Kane Kepley – a former
Liberty Flame and now North Carolina Tar Heel – drove in the winning run with
an RBI single in the bottom of the ninth to clinch the game for the West
Division. If that clutch performance doesn't fit the profile of a UNC
outfielder, what does?
Kepley
had two productive seasons with the Flames. He was named to the ASUN
All-Freshman team in his first year and slached .326/.477/.514 in his second
season for the Flames. He has a knack for getting on base, recording a stellar
0.51 strikeout-to-walk rate, with 53 walks to 26 strikeouts in his sophomore
campaign.
This
summer, Kepley has done more of the same with the CCBL's Hyannis Harbor Hawks
where he's slashing .236/.442/.349, earning an All-Star game bid and proceeding
to walk-off the game for the West.
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