Will be counted on to hit in the middle of the order while starting at third base.
Tanner Biagini's Career Statistics
2009: Hit .317 with a career-best 16 doubles as a junior...Ranked second on the team with nine home runs, 47 runs scored and 114 total bases...Started every game at third base and reached base safely in 51 of 55 contests...Against Big South opponents, had hits in each of the first 18 games and ended up reaching base safely in 24 of 25 league games...In league play, ranked second in the Big South with 30 runs scored, third (tied) with seven home runs and eighth (tied) with 63 total bases...Was 4-for-5 with a run scored in VMI's first Big South Championship win, as eighth-seeded VMI upset fifth-seeded Gardner-Webb (5/19)...Hit a three-run home run to give VMI the lead in game one at Winthrop (4/24)...Hit a bases-loaded, walk-off single against Norfolk State (4/22)...Had the first multiple home run game of his career by going 4-for-6 with two home runs and four RBIs in game one against Gardner-Webb (4/10)...Was 3-for-6 with a home run, four RBIs and three runs scored in game two at Charleston Southern (3/29)...Drafted for the second time, being selected by Oakland in the 50th round.
Summer: Played in 32 games for the Fayetteville SwampDogs of the Coastal Plain League...Hit .291 with five doubles and 18 RBIs...Helped lead the SwampDogs to a 30-23 record and the fifth seed in the Petitt Cup Playoffs.
2008: Named First Team All-State after enjoying a breakout season as a sophomore...Led the Keydets with 74 hits, 46 RBIs and 114 total bases...Also ranked second on the team with .343 batting average, .528 slugging percentage, .417 on-base percentage, 10 doubles, 41 runs scored and 12 multiple-RBI games...Had hits in 44 of the team's 55 games and reached base safely in 49 of those games...Started all but one game at third base...His 74 hits were the second-most by a Keydet in a single-season (tied), while his 46 RBIs (tied) and 114 total bases each ranked seventh on the school's single-season charts...Went 3-for-5 with a career-best five RBIs against Coppin State (4/23)...Had a career-best five hits in game two against High Point (3/22), going 5-for-5 with five singles...Had a career-best 14-game hitting streak dating back to 2007 that saw him hit .500 (26-for-52) with 3 HR and 15 RBIs...Had four RBIs against Old Dominion (3/11), going 3-for-5 with a three-run double...Gave VMI their first lead of the weekend in game four at Auburn (3/9) with a solo HR in the second inning over the 30-foot wall in left field while going 3-for-4...Hit his first career home run in game two against Lafayette (2/23), a three-run shot off of the top of the right field wall.
Summer: Played for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Grays, based out of Kansas City, of the Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas (M.I.N.K.) League...Led the team with five home runs, 29 RBIs and 66 total bases, hitting .273 with nine doubles, two triples and a slugging percentage of .475...Was also 7-of-8 in stolen bases.
2007: Saw action in 32 games at third base, starting 22...Collected a pair of doubles with a run scored and an RBIs in a 5-3 win in game three against UNC Asheville (4/29)...Went 1-for-3 with an RBIs single to give VMI the lead for good in a fourth-inning rally against Norfolk State (3/6)...Made first career start, playing third base in an 8-4 win vs. Niagara (2/24), going 1-for-3 with a walk...Led VMI with ten sacrifice bunts.
Summer: Played in 49 games for the Wilson Tobs of the Coastal Plain League...Hit .221 with eight doubles and 17 RBIs.
High School: Two-year letterwinner at D.H. Conley...Named All-Area, All-Conference and All-State by NCPreps.com...Helped lead Conley to State Championships as a junior and senior...Also earned SASI Sportsmanship Award... Also lettered for two seasons as a forward on the basketball team.
Personal: Son of Vickie and Greg Biagini...Drafted in the 48th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2006 MLB First Year Player Draft...Won both the Cameron and an American Legion Scholarship...Won the N.C. Jaycees Outstanding Teenager Award...Helped lead American Legion Post 39 to a State Championship in 2005...Father, Greg Biagini, coached in the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers & Boston Red Sox organizations, as well as in Dominican Republic and Venezuela...Also played in the Montreal Expos and Seattle Mariners farm systems and the Mexican League...Majoring in psychology.
