Dario Pizzano - Hello Mack's Mets!!!

Hey. My name is Dario Pizzano and I'm a junior outfielder from Saugus, Massachusetts, that attends Columbia University. I am draft eligible this year and hope this season works out for the best so that I may be selected in the amateur draft this June. Since I started playing this sport I wanted to be a professional baseball player. That dream became even stronger after my little league team played in the 2003 Little League World Series and I got a taste of playing the sport I love in front of millions of people.

 I hope this blog will help in fulfilling my dream.

From Columbia:

2011: First team All-Ivy League for the second straight season ... started 42 of 43 games he played ... voted team's most valuable player ... second-team All-ECAC ... led team in batting average, base hits, home runs, RBI, doubles and total bases ... at the end of the regular season, led Ivy League in home runs and total bases ... hit safely in first 10 games and 16 of his first 17 ... went 4-for-5 with three doubles, three runs scored and two RBI at South Alabama ... had three hits in five at-bats, including two RBI in 5-3 win at Florida Gulf Coast ... was a single shy of the cycle at Rollins, with a double, triple and a home run and drove in four runs in 8-7 win ... batted .467 in four-game series vs. Holy Cross with six RBI ... went 3-for-5 in doubleheader sweep of Harvard with a home run, five RBI and three runs scored ... drilled a two-run homer in first inning of 6-5 win over Manhattan ... homered in each end of opening doubleheader at Princeton ... his home run in game one gave Columbia a brief lead in extra innings before the Lions went on to win, 8-5 ... in final home doubleheader vs. Penn, cranked three home runs, scored six times and drove in four.

2010: Named Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Year ... Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American ... Ping! Baseball Freshman All-American ... first team All-Ivy League ... tarted 40 of 46 games in the outfield ... posted a league-leading .741 slugging percentage ... finished season batting .374 with 12 home runs and 36 runs batted in ... 12 home runs set a single-season rookie record at Columbia ... named one of Collegiate Baseball's National Players of the Week on April 12 ... named Ivy League Player of the Week on April 13 ... two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week (April 13, May 4) ... hit .388 with seven home runs and 13 runs batted in during league play ... went 6-for-6 with two home runs, six RBI and five runs scored in Columbia's 24-1 romp in game one at Harvard ... was 3-for-3 with three runs scored and two RBI in 12-11 win vs. Rutgers ... homered in seventh inning of Lions' 5-2 game-one win at Penn ... hit first-inning, three-run homer in Lions' game one win over Dartmouth in Ivy League Championship Series ... batted .692 during three-game championship series with six RBI and five runs scored.

At Malden Catholic: Four-year letterwinner ... also played basketball for three years ... captained baseball team as a junior and a senior ... Catholic Conference Player of the Year ... first team Massachusetts all-star ... two-time all-conference honoree ... led conference in batting as a junior and a senior ... batted .474 as a junior ... batted .520 as a senior ... team was conference champions his junior year ... played summer ball with the Andre Chiefs.

Personal: Political science major ... member of 2003 Little League World Series United States finalists ... son of Tracie and Paul Pizzano ... Dario Pizzano, b. April 25, 1991 in Boston.

Year	AVG	G-GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO
2010	.374	46-40	147	38	55	12	3	12	36	2	14	22
2011	.359	43-42	156	34	56	15	2	9	36	0	22	18
Total	.366	89-82	303	72	111	27	5	21	72	2	36	40