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2024 Baseball Roster

19 Joseph Salvo

  • Position Catcher
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 191
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Seabrook Island, S.C.

Biography

2022 Spring Academic All-Southern Conference Team

2023 (Junior): Played in 14 contests, starting in eight … knocked five hits in 20 at-bats for a .250 average … scored five times while driving in one … posted a .444 on-base percentage … logged a pair of two-hit performances against Alabama State (March 1) and Morehead State (March 4).

2022 (Sophomore): Played in 29 games, earning the starting nod nine times … posted a .989 fielding percentage … recorded seven runs scored with six base hits … recorded a pair of base hits and a season-high 11 putouts against Jacksonville State on April 19.

2021 (Freshman): Saw action in 10 games . . . batted .333 hitting .333, with base hits that broke up a Texas A&M shutout in College Station and another against the Crimson Tide.

Summer League: Caught in the Great Lakes Collegiate Summer League for the Lima Locos in 2022, where he hit .304 with a .430 on-base clip and was named to the league's all-star squad .. has been selected to play for the Keene Swampbats in the New England Collegiate Summer League in 2023
 
High School: Salvo spent his first two high school years at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, training under the tutelage of Santiago Nessy, a former member of the New York Yankees Organization who is currently responsible for training the Yankees top catching prospects ... moved to Atlanta to play travel ball with Team Elite (Atlanta Braves Scout Team) and wound up catching for nationally-ranked (Top 10) Buford High School in his junior year in 2019 ...  hit over .300 his junior campaign, with an on-base percentage of over .400 ... was a battery mate with first-round MLB Draftee Dylan Lesko while at Buford ... was tabbed by Perfect Game as the third best catcher in that state of South Carolina, and by Georgia PBR as top Pop Time in the 2020 graduating class of catchers.

Statistics

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2024

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Historical Player Information

  • 19

    2021Freshman

    Catcher
    5'10" 183 lbs
    19
  • 19

    2022Sophomore

    Catcher
    5'10" 191 lbs
    19
  • 19

    2023Junior

    Catcher
    5'10" 191 lbs
    19
  • 19

    2024Senior

    Catcher
    5'11" 191 lbs
    19
  • 19

    2024Senior

    Catcher
    5'10" 191 lbs
    19
  • 19

    2024Senior

    Catcher
    5'10" 191 lbs
    19