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Sean Keys Named Patriot League Player of the Week, Now Ranked No. 8 in D1Baseball Position Rankings
4/2/2024 1:00:00 PM | Baseball
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell junior Sean Keys continued his torrid season at the plate last week, and on Tuesday he was honored with his first Patriot League Player of the Week citation of 2024 and fourth of his career. In addition, Keys is listed as the No. 8 third baseman in the nation in D1Baseball.com's mid-season positional rankings.
In four games last week, Keys went 9-for-16 (.563), with six of the nine hits going for extra bases. Last Tuesday at Mount St. Mary's, he sparked Bucknell's 16-14 victory with a 4-for-5 afternoon and became just the fourth player in team history to hit for the cycle. Bucknell's last cycle came from Bob Donato against Toledo in Winter Haven, Fla., in 2009. The only other cycles in team history were authored by Hall-of-Famer Ted Aceto against Pittsburgh in 1989 and Brian Hirschberg against Bloomsburg in 2003.
Keys went 5-for-11 with another long home run in the three-game series at Holy Cross over the weekend, and for the week he slashed .563/.632/1.250 for a whopping 1.882 OPS. He drove in seven runs and scored five times in the four games.
Over the full season, Keys is now slashing .427/.545/.854 for an OPS of 1.399. He leads the Patriot League in all four of those categories, and nationally he ranks ninth in OPS, 12th in slugging, and 16th in on-base percentage.
Keys was listed as the No. 7 third baseman in D1Baseball's preseason positional rankings, and he is holding steady at No. 8 in the site's midseason rankings.
Georgia star Charlie Condon, who many analysts project to be the No. 1 pick in the 2024 MLB Draft, sits atop DIBaseball's list of top-50 third basemen. Keys is the only player in the top 12 not from a team in the SEC or ACC. Ranked ahead of him are Condon, Tennessee's Billy Amick, Virginia Tech's Carson DeMartini, LSU's Tommy White, Alabama's Gage Miller, Florida State's Cam Smith, and Clemson's Blake Wright.
Keys' home run at Holy Cross on Sunday was the 22nd of his career, moving him into the No. 5 spot on Bucknell's all-time list. He is one behind Donato for fourth. Keys is also up to 97 career RBIs, and he is close to becoming just the 12th player in team history to hit the 100-RBI mark.
Bucknell's game at Penn State was rained out on Tuesday, and now the Bison turn their attention back to Patriot League play with road doubleheaders at Lafayette and Lehigh this weekend.
In four games last week, Keys went 9-for-16 (.563), with six of the nine hits going for extra bases. Last Tuesday at Mount St. Mary's, he sparked Bucknell's 16-14 victory with a 4-for-5 afternoon and became just the fourth player in team history to hit for the cycle. Bucknell's last cycle came from Bob Donato against Toledo in Winter Haven, Fla., in 2009. The only other cycles in team history were authored by Hall-of-Famer Ted Aceto against Pittsburgh in 1989 and Brian Hirschberg against Bloomsburg in 2003.
Keys went 5-for-11 with another long home run in the three-game series at Holy Cross over the weekend, and for the week he slashed .563/.632/1.250 for a whopping 1.882 OPS. He drove in seven runs and scored five times in the four games.
Over the full season, Keys is now slashing .427/.545/.854 for an OPS of 1.399. He leads the Patriot League in all four of those categories, and nationally he ranks ninth in OPS, 12th in slugging, and 16th in on-base percentage.
Keys was listed as the No. 7 third baseman in D1Baseball's preseason positional rankings, and he is holding steady at No. 8 in the site's midseason rankings.
Georgia star Charlie Condon, who many analysts project to be the No. 1 pick in the 2024 MLB Draft, sits atop DIBaseball's list of top-50 third basemen. Keys is the only player in the top 12 not from a team in the SEC or ACC. Ranked ahead of him are Condon, Tennessee's Billy Amick, Virginia Tech's Carson DeMartini, LSU's Tommy White, Alabama's Gage Miller, Florida State's Cam Smith, and Clemson's Blake Wright.
Keys' home run at Holy Cross on Sunday was the 22nd of his career, moving him into the No. 5 spot on Bucknell's all-time list. He is one behind Donato for fourth. Keys is also up to 97 career RBIs, and he is close to becoming just the 12th player in team history to hit the 100-RBI mark.
Bucknell's game at Penn State was rained out on Tuesday, and now the Bison turn their attention back to Patriot League play with road doubleheaders at Lafayette and Lehigh this weekend.
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