Vanderbilt Duo Named To USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Roster

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Top: Enrique Bradfield Jr. Bottom: Carter Holton. Photos: Courtesy of Vanderbilt Athletics

Vanderbilt baseball’s Enrique Bradfield Jr. and Carter Holton have been named to the final 26-man roster for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, USA Baseball.

The final squad was named after the completion of the 2022 Collegiate National Team Training Camp—a five-game intrasquad series played across the state of North Carolina. 17 schools have players on the 2022 Collegiate National Team roster, but Vanderbilt is one of five programs to boast multiple student-athletes on the team. The others are Florida State, LSU, Ole Miss and Wake Forest.

Bradfield ended the year with a batting average of .317 in 243 at-bats. He had an on-base percentage of .415 and was perfect this season in stolen bases with 46 steals on 46 attempts. Holton finished the season leading the team in ERA of 3.14 in 15 starts, the best on the team. He pitched 80 innings and struck out 97 batters. His opposing batting average was also the best on the team with .197.

Including the selections of Bradfield and Holton, Vanderbilt has had 27 players on USA Baseball Collegiate National Teams—the second-most among SEC programs. Most recently, Austin Martin and Tyler Brown played on the Collegiate National Team in the summer of 2019.

Team USA will travel to the Netherlands on Wednesday and begin Honkbalweek Haarlem on Saturday. They open against Japan at 7 a.m. CT and then have games against Italy, Cuba, the Netherlands and Curacao to complete group play. All games will be streamed at HonkbalSoftbal.tv.

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