Jace Jung #17

Played collegiately at Texas Tech University, where he batted .328/.468/.647 with 32 doubles, 39 home runs and 147 RBI in 136 games...Earned First Team All-Big 12 honors and First Team All-America recognition in 2022, ranking fourth in the Big 12 in OPS (1.093) and runs (68), tied for sixth in home runs (14), ninth in batting average (.335) and 10th in RBI (57)...Named Big 12 Player of the Year, was a consensus All-American and was a finalist for the Dick Howser Trophy as a freshman in 2021, slashing .337/.462/.697 with 10 doubles, one triple, 21 home runs and 67 RBI in 56 games...was invited to play for USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team during the summer of 2021...Selected by the Tigers in the first round (12th overall) of the 2022 MLB Draft out of Texas Tech University (signing scout: Steve Taylor).

2023

Combined to appear in 128 games between Single A West Michigan and Double A Erie in 2023...Won a Rawlings Gold Glove Award for Minor League second basemen, posting a .993 fielding percentage with just three errors over 109 games while turning 62 double plays...Named a Baseball America High Class A All-Star and a Tigers Organization All-Star by MiLB.com...also was tabbed a Midwest League Postseason All-Star...Named Midwest League Player of the Week for the week ending June 4, going 13-for-23 with three doubles, two home runs and 10 RBI in six games...Posted a multi-homer performance in back-to-back games on Sept. 5-6 at Somerset, driving in eight runs...Recorded a hit in all four games with Erie during the Eastern League playoffs, going 4-for14 with a RBI...Played in 15 games for Salt River in the Arizona Fall League, hitting .200/.385/.300 with two doubles, a home run and eight RBI...selected to play in the AFL Rising Stars game...Ranked as the No. 4 prospect in the Tigers organization and the No. 81 prospect in baseball by Baseball America following the season.

2022

Played in 30 games with Single A West Michigan during his first professional season in 2022...Ranked as the No. 2 prospect in the Tigers organization and the No. 97 prospect in baseball by Baseball America following the season.