Baseball’s Pages Becomes Semifinalist for National Catching Award

BOCA RATON, Fla. – With the list whittled down from 91 to a batch of only 14, the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award list of semifinalists, announced Friday, includes Florida Atlantic University junior backstop Pedro Pages.

Pages continues to be an offensive leader and true top defender for the Owls. In addition to batting .311, he has shown increased patience at the plate, leading the team with a .434 on-base percentage (10th in Conference USA). He exceeded his career high in walks in the first game of April, and has more this season – 38, third-highest in C-USA – than in his first two combined. The Doral, Florida, native also has eight doubles, six home runs and 40 RBI. His defensive skill is cemented by throwing out 42.5% of baserunners (17 of 40), plus three pickoffs, while committing only two fielding errors in 384 chances towards a .992 fielding percentage behind the plate.

Here is the semifinalist list in its entirety:

Patrick Bailey, sophomore, N.C. State
Philip Clarke, sophomore, Vanderbilt
Logan Driscoll, junior, George Mason
Nick Kahle, junior, Washington
Justin Kunz, senior, Gardner-Webb
Shea Langeliers, junior, Baylor
Korey Lee, junior, California
Kyle McCann, junior, Georgia Tech
Pedro Pages, junior, Florida Atlantic
Adley Rutschman, junior, Oregon State
Dustin Skelton, junior, Mississippi State
Taylor Smith, freshman, Incarnate Word
Eric Yang, junior, UC Santa Barbara
Harris Yett, senior, Charlotte

About Voting for the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Award:
Ballots will be sent to the national voting panel at the end of May for a vote to determine three finalists. The finalists will be announced June 3, 2019. A final vote among the national committee will occur during the College World Series. All finalists will be brought to Wichita and the winner will be announced at the 22nd Annual Greater Wichita Sports Banquet on June 27, 2019.

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