Primary starter at first base in 2025 ... a career .317 hitter with a .524 slugging percentage and .405 on-base percentage in 107 games (104 starts) over two active seasons, including one at Purdue and one at Clemson ... has 22 doubles, three triples, 18 homers, 103 RBIs, 88 runs, 52 walks, 13 hit-by-pitches and four steals.
Career Stats
Primary starter at first base in 2025 … a career .317 hitter with a .524 slugging percentage and .405 on-base percentage in 107 games (104 starts) over two active seasons, including one at Purdue and one at Clemson … has 22 doubles, three triples, 18 homers, 103 RBIs, 88 runs, 52 walks, 13 hit-by-pitches and four steals.
2025: Hit .271 with 26 runs, seven doubles, five homers, 39 RBIs, a .388 slugging percentage, .357 on-base percentage, 23 walks, seven hit-by-pitches and two steals in 54 games (51 starts, including 45 at first base and six at catcher) … tied for second in Tiger history in sacrifice flies (9) … tied for fourth in the nation in sacrifice flies … first in the ACC in sacrifice flies … led the team in sacrifice flies … had 12 multiple-hit games … hit .347 with four homers, six doubles and 26 RBIs in 31 games at home … went 3-for-5 with a homer and two runs against North Carolina A&T on Feb. 22 … went 1-for-3 with three runs and a walk against Davidson on March 8 … went 1-for-3 with a two-run homer and walk against Liberty on March 11 … went 1-for-3 with a homer and walk against Liberty on March 12 … went 3-for-4 with a double, RBI and two runs against The Citadel on March 19 … went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run against No. 11 Wake Forest on March 21 … went 1-for-2 with a game-tying, run-scoring single with two outs in the eighth inning, a run, two walks and a hit-by-pitch against No. 11 Wake Forest on March 23 … went 1-for-3 with a homer and four RBIs against Presbyterian on March 26 … went 3-for-4 with an RBI, run and walk in the second game of a doubleheader at No. 19 Georgia Tech on March 29 … went 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI against Stanford on April 12 … went 2-for-5 with a two-run homer and two runs at No. 5 Florida State on May 4 … went 3-for-5 with a double, RBI and two runs against Duke on May 10 … went 2-for-3 with two RBIs against Duke on May 11 … preseason second-team All-American by NCBWA … No. 30 transfer in the nation in the preseason by Baseball America … No. 9 first baseman in the nation in the preseason by D1Baseball … No. 66 junior in the nation in the preseason by Perfect Game … No. 99 college prospect for the 2025 draft in the preseason by D1Baseball … No. 21 ACC prospect for the 2025 draft in the preseason by D1Baseball.
Before Clemson: Member of the Purdue program for two seasons, as he played in 2024 as a redshirt freshman under Head Coach Greg Goff … second-team freshman All-American by Baseball America, D1Baseball and NCBWA … Big Ten Conference Freshman-of-the-Year … Second-Team All-Big Ten Conference selection … All-Big Ten Conference Freshman selection … five-time Big Ten Conference Freshman-of-the-Week … hit .359 with 13 homers, three triples, 15 doubles, 64 RBIs, 62 runs, a .646 slugging percentage, .449 on-base percentage and two steals in 53 games in 2024 … tied the school record for runs … set school freshman records for hits, homers, RBIs, runs, total bases and slugging percentage … first-team all-state selection as a senior at Boyle County High School … No. 12 player and No. 3 catcher in Kentucky by Perfect Game … hit .462 with 10 homers, 13 doubles and 46 RBIs in 33 games as a senior … hit .430 with seven homers, 10 doubles and a school-record 49 RBIs in 36 games as a junior … valedictorian as a senior … lettered four times in baseball at Boyle County High School, where he was coached by Adam Blair.
Personal: His sister, Grace, played soccer at Morehead State … majoring in economics … born Robert Lukas Gaffney on Oct. 9, 2003 in Danville, Ky.
