2019 Draft - Mets Pick 10.298 - RF Scott Ota - The University of Illinois at Chicago

With the 298th pick (10^th round) in the 2019 draft, the New York Mets picked senior outfielder Scott Ota out of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

2019 stats:  52-G, .357/.458/.749, 20-HR, 64-RBI, only 23-K

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UIC - 2019: All-Horizon League Second Team ... Horizon League All-Tournament Team ... Horizon League All-Academic Team ... Named Horizon League Player of the Week three times and set the conference's record for most career weekly awards for a hitter (7) ... Set UIC single-season home run record and ranks 15th nationally in that category with 19 ... First Horizon League player to hit at least 19 home runs since 2000 ...  Ranks second all-time at UIC with 32 home runs ... Set UIC career RBI record (161) ... Owns 62 RBI on season, tied for fourth in program history ... 

Ranks ninth in NCAA in slugging percentage (.746) ... Ranks 11th in nation with 0.38 home runs per game and 13th with 1.24 RBI per game ... Checks in 25th in NCAA with 144 total bases ... Led Flames with 20 multi-hit games and 18 multi-RBI games ... Cracked two home runs in a game three times (March 29 at Milwaukee; April 12 vs. Northern Kentucky; April 16 vs. Illinois State) ... Hit safely in 20 consecutive games between March 22 - April 26, the program's longest streak since 2010 ... Reached base safely in 29 straight games between March 22 - May 12 ... 

Slashed .398/.489/.841 during 29 Horizon League games ... Hit .385 and slugged .538 with two doubles and five RBI in three Horizon League Championship games ... Gave UIC its first lead of championship game with fifth-inning RBI single vs. Milwaukee (May 25) ... Collected go-ahead RBI single in 10th inning against Wright State (May 24) ... 

Hit 19th home run of season to set program's single-season record in regular season finale at Northern Kentucky (May 18) ... Earned #HLBASE Batter of the Week nod on May 6 after lead UIC with six hits and four runs scored, two home runs and four RBI in a series win over Milwaukee ... Homered in each of his first two at-bats against Illinois State (April 16) ...  

Named Horizon League Co-Batter of the Week on April 15 after batting .524 and posting a slugging percentage of 1.143 with seven extra-base hits and 19 RBI in four games against Northern Illinois and Northern Kentucky ... Matched career high with four hits vs. NKU (April 13) ... Homered twice and notched career-high seven RBI vs. the Norse (April 12) ... Had three hits including a triple at NIU (April 9) ... 

Netted Horizon League Batter of the Week award on April 1 by batting .571 and slugging 1.071 with nine runs, six RBI, two home runs and 15 total bases against NIU and Milwaukee ... Registered first multi-HR game at Milwaukee (March 29) ... Drew career-high four walks, stole a base and scored twice vs. Chicago State (March 8) ... Went 3-for-5 with a double, home run and three RBI in win at Texas A&M (Feb. 24) ... Only UIC player to start all 50 games.

smdaily - Hunter Bishop wasn’t the only Serra graduate to flash 20-home run power in he NCAA Division I baseball ranks this season.

While Bishop still has bragging rights among his Serra brethren with 22 homers at Arizona State this season, his former Padres teammate Scott Ota wasn’t far behind as a senior at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ota blasted 20 home runs to help lead the Flames to a Horizon League championship, and their third appearance in the NCAA tournament in the past four years.