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Baseball
Selected by the Seattle Mariners in the 34th round (1,030 overall pick) in the 2002 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft...team co-captain is slated to start at catcher...named a third-team preseason All-American by Louisville Slugger, as selected by Collegiate Baseball newspaper. 2002: Although he only played in 28 games, Burrill still managed to put up impressive numbers, leading the team with a .414 batting average...five games into the season, he was sidelined with mononucleosis, forcing him to miss nine games. He returned to the lineup in late March, but he broke a bone in his right hand April 19 vs. Michigan...collected 41 hits, 32 runs, 24 RBI, 11 doubles and five homers in just 99 at-bats...notched only one error in 192 attempts, good for a .995 fielding percentage...amassed a .492 on -base percentage and .677 slugging percentage...exploded on opening day, going 4-for-4 with two homers, four runs and five RBI vs. UC Santa Barbara (2/22)...named Big Ten Player of the Week Feb. 25...had 12 multi-hit games...went 2-for-2 with three runs and three RBI vs. Minnesota (3/30)...collected three RBI, two runs and a homer vs. Indiana (4/14). 2001: Led team in RBI with 44…third on the team with .331 average…started 41 games at first base and catcher…tied for third on team with .458 slugging percentage…had just one passedball…struck out just eight times in 142 at-bats…went 4-for-4 with two RBI and two doubles in win over Ohio (3/18)…went combined 4-for-8 with eight RBI and four runs scored in back-to-back games vs. Ohio State (4/13-14)…went 2-for-4 with three RBI in win over Michigan (5/4). 2000: Hit .309 with 25 hits, eight runs and eight RBI ... recorded multiple two-hit, two-RBI games, one against Grand Valley State (3/30) and the other against Detroit Mercy (4/12) ... made MSU debut against former school Cal St. Northridge (2/24) ... appeared in 33 games. Pre-MSU: Spent one year at California State University Northridge. High School: First-team All CIF junior and senior year... First-team All-L.A. Times ...set school records for average, RBI (72), hits and doubles...captain of baseball team in 1997 and 1998 ... National Honor Society and the California Scholastic Federation. Personal: Born February 11, 1980 in Panorama City, Calif., to Jerry and Maureen Burrill...business major... brother Casey, played baseball and was an All-American his senior year at the University of Southern California (1989-1992)...likes computers and listening to music...lists biggest baseball influence as his brother...favorite team is the Los Angeles Dodgers...favorite player is Dan Wilson.
Year GP AB R H Avg 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB/AT PO A E Pct. 2000 33 81 8 25 .309 6 0 0 8 12 6 0/0 113 21 2 .985 2001 45 142 17 47 .331 12 0 2 44 14 8 1/1 255 23 3 .989 2002 28 99 32 41 .414 11 0 5 24 16 7 0-0 166 25 1 .995 Total 106 322 57 113 .351 29 0 7 76 42 21 1/1 534 69 6 .990 |
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