2016 Baseball Roster
Roster
Jon Mayer
- Position:
- Catcher
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 225
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Dillsburg, Pa.
- High School:
- Northern York
Career Statistics:
Hitting - .235, 135 games played, 126 games started, 452 at bats, 61 runs, 106 hits, 22 doubles, 2 triples, 6 home runs, 74 RBIs, 150 total bases, .332 slugging %, 49 walks, 24 hit by pitches, 93 strikeouts, .337 on-base %, 6 sac flies, 1 sac bunt, 1-2 stolen bases, .986 fielding %
Career: First Team All-Patriot League catcher (2014) ... two-time member of Patriot League Academic Honor Roll ... Preseason All-Patriot League (2015) ... member of Charlottesville Regional All-Tournament Team (2014).
2016 (Senior): Team's starting catcher ... appeared in 45 of team's 52 games with 41 starts ... all 41 starts were at catcher ... Bison posted 16 of their 18 wins in his starts ... hit .187 with two home runs and 17 RBIs ... also scored 15 runs and totaled five doubles ... had four multi-hit games and three multi-RBI contests ... had a season-best four-game hitting streak the final week of April ... had hits in seven of final nine games played ... drove in three runs during Patriot League Semifinal Series at Navy ... home runs came against Tennessee Tech and Army West Point ... hit .314 when leading off an inning ... typically hit fourth, fifth or sixth in the lineup ... member of Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
2015 (Junior): Preseason All-Patriot League selection ... two-time Patriot League Player of the Week (Feb. 16, April 13) ... Bison Athlete of the Week (April 13) ... team's starting catcher with 39 starts behind the plate ... played in 41 games overall ... hit .276 with two home runs and a team-high-tying 28 RBIs ... fourth on team with 21 runs scored ... 10 extra-base hits ... threw out eight potential basestealers ... two four-hit games to equal most hits by a Bison ... fourth on team with 10 multi-hit games ... second on team with five multi-RBI contests ... was 4-for-4 with seven RBIs in 14-1 win over Army West Point ... one RBI shy of equaling school record ... seven-game hitting streak from April 11-April 18 was second-longest by a Bison ... 14-for-27 (.519) during streak ... reached base in 14 straight games at one point ... member of Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
2014 (Sophomore): First Team All-Patriot League catcher ... hit .246 with two home runs and 25 RBIs ... became first Bison to hit multiple home runs in a game since 2012 with two homers against Holy Cross on final weekend of regular season ... named to Charlottesville Regional All-Tournament Team after NCAA appearance ... 3-for-9 with one run scored and two RBIs in helping Bison to 1-2 record at Regional ... split time between DH and catcher during season ... started 23 times at catcher and 10 times at DH ... hit .284 when playing at catcher ... started 34 games overall and appeared in 37 ... typically hit in cleanup spot in lineup ... team-high eight multi-RBI games ... seven multi-hit outings ... ended season on two-game hitting streak ... reached base in eight consecutive games at one point ... listed as 10th-best prospect in the Futures Collegiate Summer League by Baseball America.
2013 (Freshman): Started and appeared in 12 games ... 10 starts at catcher and two at DH ... suffered season-ending injury and did not appear in a contest after March 30 ... hit .231 with two doubles, four RBIs and six runs scored ... posted at least one hit in eight of 12 games played.
High School: Graduated from Northern York High School in 2012 ... helped team to 2011 PIAA 3A state title ... two-time Patriot News First Team All-Star ... two-time member of Big 11 Team ... two-time All-Carlisle Sentinel First Team selection ... 2012 Colonial Division MVP ... 2012 team MVP.
Personal: Jonathan Wolfgang Mayer ... born Oct. 28, 1993 in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania ... son of Richard and Cynthia Mayer ... has one sibling, Alex ... majoring in economics.
