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Jersey Number 17
Bryce Kelley
- Position:
- OF/LHP
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 205
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Rockford, Mich.
- High School:
- Rockford
Bio
CAREER NOTES: Became the new MSU career stolen base king this season, as he broke the record on April 11 vs. Purdue, swiping his 80th career base, passing Anthony Cheky’s previous record of 79 from 2012-15. Kelley broke the record in the first inning, by stealing third ... He reached on a walk, then moved to second on a groundout, before swiping third ... After swiping No. 80, he was congratulated by third base coach Graham Sikes, and presented the record setting base by a member of the MSU Facilities grounds crew in a special presentation, while the small crowd of family of the student-athletes gave Kelley a standing ovation ... Kelley’s record-setting moment was No. 5 on NCAA Baseball’s Player of the Week. Kelley padded his record finished his Spartan career with 83 swipes ... Three-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honoree ... Four-time Academic All-Big Ten selection ... Two-time recipient of the MSU SASS Scholar-Athlete Award for having the highest GPA on the baseball team ... Also a three-time honoree of Highest Honors for MSU Athletics Honor Roll.
2021 (SENIOR): Garnered Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition ... Earned Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Collected the Jerry Sutton Student-Athlete MSU team award ... Earned the MSU SASS Scholar-Athlete Award for 2021 for having the highest GPA on the baseball team ... Also recognized with Highest Honors for MSU Athletics Honor Roll ...Led MSU and ranked sixth in the B1G with 11 stolen bases ... Became the new MSU career stolen base king this season, as he broke the record on April 11 vs. Purdue, swiping his 80th career base, passing Anthony Cheky’s previous record of 79 from 2012-15 ... Broke the record in the first inning, by stealing third; after reaching on a walk, moved to second on a groundout, before swiping third ... After swiping No. 80, was congratulated by third base coach Graham Sikes, and presented the record setting base by a member of the MSU Facilities grounds crew in a special presentation, while the small crowd of family of the student-athletes gave Kelley a standing ovation ... The record-setting moment was No. 5 on NCAA Baseball’s Player of the Week ... Padded his record finished his Spartan career with 83 swipes ... At the plate, also led the team and ranked third in the B1G with 30 walks, as well as ranking sixth in the league in walks/game (0.68) ... Also finished third on the team in runs scored (26), fifth in hits (39) and on-base percentage (.357) ... Was one of two players to both start and play in all 44 games, joining Zaid Walker ... Posted a .239 average with 39 hits, 26 runs scored and 15 RBI ... In the field, logged 84 putouts and four outfield assists, including career-high two assists vs. Maryland (March 6-gm 2), adding an assist vs. Northwestern (March 12) and vs. Iowa (May 28) ... Finished the season on a season-high seven games hitting streak (May 16-30), as well as at least one hit in nine of last 10 games ... Registered nine multiple hit outings, with seven coming in first 10 games of season, including season-high three hits in two games that came in a three-game span, vs. Northwestern (March 13-gm 2) and vs. Illinois (March 20) ... Logged lone extra-base hit of season with a double at Michigan (March 21) ... Posted two games with multi-RBI, logging two ribbies in back-to-back games, coming vs. Michigan (May 9) and at Ohio State (May 14) ... Also had streak of at least one RBI in four-straight games (April 4-11) ... Swiped season-high two stolen bases vs. Maryland (March 6-gm 1), part of three swipes in the weekend series, adding one in nightcap ... Scored two runs in a game twice, last doing so vs. Rutgers (May 21), along with opening the season in back-to-back games with two runs (vs. Maryland March 5-6) ... Added two sac flies and one sac bunt ... Came on to pitch in relief role vs. Iowa (May 28) and pitching hitless, scoreless 1.0 inning, ringing up a strikeout.
2020 (SENIOR): Earned 2020 CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic First-Team All-District® accolades ... Earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition ... Collected Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Collected the Danny Litwhiler Defensive Player of the Year MSU team award ... Earned the MSU SASS Scholar-Athlete Award for 2020 for having the highest GPA on the baseball team ... Also recognized with Highest Honors for MSU Athletics Honor Roll ... Played and started in all 15 games of the shortened season, one of only two Spartans to start in every game, along with Bailey Peterson, and one of three players to play in all 15 contests, along with Peterson and Peter Ahn ... Started in center field in 13 games, while starting in left in first two games ... Second on team with a .400 average, ranking tied for fifth in the B1G and tied for 88th in the NCAA ... Also ranked sixth in the conference with a .486 on-base percentage ... Added a .417 slugging percentage ... Ranked second on team, along with tied for fourth in the B1G and tied for 74th in the NCAA with 24 hits ... Shared team and Big Ten lead with eight stolen bases, ranking tied for 45th in NCAA ... Also ranked tied for second in conference and tied for 44th in country with 0.53 stolen bases/game ... Added one double and four RBI, while drawing nine walks ... Also had one sacrifice hit ... In the field, posted perfect 1.000 fielding percentage, with 19 putouts and two assists, along with using speed to cut down several hits, turning doubles into singles ... Highlight outfield assist was his throw to Gabe Sotres for the tag at the plate in top of ninth for defensive walk-off vs. Western Carolina on Feb. 29, to preserve 4-3 Victory for MSU ... With a WCU runner on second with two outs, a single up the middle went to him in center and he charged and came up throwing, firing a frozen rope to Sotres at home and he applied to tag to nab the WCU runner at the plate for the final out and the defensive walk-off ... Other outfield assist came vs. Morehead State on Feb. 16 with a double play on a flyout and doubling-up the runner at second ... Tabbed as the Big Ten Conference Co-Player of the Week on Feb. 17, for his performance in the opening weekend for first career Big Ten Player of the Week award ... He is the first Spartan to collect Big Ten Player of the Week accolades since former teammate Royce Ando earned the honor on May 13, 2019, as Michigan State has now won two of the last three Player of the Week honors dating back to 2019 season ... He hit .647 (11-of-17) for the weekend, which led the Big Ten by over .100, as well as ranking 15th in the NCAA after the first weekend of the season ... He was the only player in Big Ten to hit over .500 that played in four games, leading Michigan State to a four-game sweep of Morehead State in Charleston, South Carolina at Shipyard Park, as the Spartans were the only Big Ten team to win all four of their games on the weekend ... The 11 hits also led not only the Big Ten, but shared the lead for the most in the NCAA, and was three hits more than any other player in the conference ... He had at least two hits in all four games played, including going 4-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored, adding one stolen base in Michigan State’s 15-3 win in the series and season-opener on Feb. 14 ... He also went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored in game one of the doubleheader the next day ... He was also a standout on the basepaths, swiping three stolen bases on the weekend, which shared the lead in the Big Ten with two teammates, Danny Gleaves and Bailey Peterson ... Overall, he posted a .647 on-base percentage, which was second in the Big Ten and a .706 slugging percentage, that was fifth, also ranking fifth in runs scored with five ... He was also second in the B1G in total bases with 12, only trailing teammate Peter Ahn who had 13 ... Led the team with the longest hitting streak of the season, getting a hit in the first 13 games of the season, before going hitless in game 14, but had a hit in the 15th game, giving him at least one hit in 14 of the 15 games of the season ... Also shared the team-lead with reaching base in all 15 games, joining Bailey Peterson ... Tied for second on team with six multiple-hit games, including in each of the first four games of the season, with at least two hits in each of those games, highlighted by four hits in season-opener vs. Morehead State on Feb. 14, along with three hits the next game and two hits the next two games ... Finished season with a pair of three-hit outings and three contests with two hits each, adding three hits vs. Ball State (March 1) and two hits vs. Kansas (Feb. 28) ... Had one multi-RBI game, with two, also in season-opener vs. Morehead State ... Had four stolen bases in first five games, including streak of one in three-straight games (Feb. 15-16), as part of six swipes in the first eight games and eight stolen bases through first 12 games of season ... Had streak of drawing at least one walk in four games, including two walks vs. Louisiana (March 7), his second two-walk outing of the season, joining Feb. 22 vs. Merrimack ... Lone extra-base hit of season was double vs. Morehead State (Feb. 15) ... Defensively, had six games with multiple putouts, highlighted by season-high four vs. Merrimack (Feb. 22), while making two in five other games, including back-to-back contests vs. Louisiana (March 7) and vs. Samford (March 8).
2019 (JUNIOR): Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award Recipient ... Academic All-Big Ten ... Tabbed as the Danny Litwhiler Defensive Player of the Year team award ... Made 53 starts out of the 54 games in the season, the most at any one position for the Spartans ... Led the Spartans and ranked third in the B1G with 18 stolen bases ... Was part of a speedy Spartan trio with junior outfielder Danny Gleaves and senior infielder Marty Bechina that were all ranked in the top 10 of the career stolen base list and the Spartan trio is the only the active threesome in the country to have three players on the respective school stolen base list, at No. 2 with 64 stolen bases, Bechina was No. 9 with 35 and Gleaves at No. 10 with 34 ... At the play, hit .300, ranking second on the team ... Also led MSU’s regular outfielders with a .990 fielding percentage, with 90 putouts and five assists, while committing just one error ... Topped MSU and ranked tied for sixth in the conference with 65 hits, along with ranking fifth in at bats (217) and ranking 12th in total plate appearances (235) ... Was also tied for ninth in the league with five sacrifice bunts ... In B1G only action, was tied for eighth in average, hitting .323, and tied for fifth in hits (31), tied for sixth in at bats (96) ... Let MSU with 16 multi-hit games, highlighted by tying career-high four hits in three different games, first doing so at New Orleans (Feb. 16), then at Rutgers (April 13) and vs. Northwestern (April 27), while rapping three hits in six games and posting pair of hits in seven contests ... Shared team-lead with an eight-game hitting streak (April 19-27), along with having a nine-game on-bast streak (March 30-April 13), including drawing at least one walk in five-straight games, with a pair of walks in two games in that span, part of four games with two walks, drawing 17 free passes on the season ... Posted 12 RBI for the year, including two RBI in two contests, vs. Indiana (April 21) and season-finale vs. Illinois (May 18).
2018 (SOPHOMORE): Academic All-Big Ten ... Became MSU’s single-season stolen base record holder with 33 swipes, topping former teammate’s Brandon Hughes’ record that lasted all of one season, with 30 stolen bases in 2017 ... Led the Big Ten and ranked third in the NCAA with 0.66 stolen bases per game, as well as leading the conference and ranking 10th in the country with the 33 stolen bases ... Nearly doubled his season output in the Niagara series, swiping six in the four games, including two each on March 15 and 16 before swiping five in the three games vs. Michigan ... Stole at least one base in 24 total games, and also had multi stolen bases in seven games, led by a career-high three at Michigan on March 23 ... Teamed with fellow outfielder Danny Gleaves to be not just the only pair in the Big Ten with 20 or more stolen bases, but they were just part of six sets of two or more players in the country with 20+ stolen bases ... Posted a .263 average at the plate, with six doubles and two triples, and scored 28 runs ... In the outfield, tallied a .960 fielding percentage with seven assists.
2017 (FRESHMAN): Collegiate Baseball Freshmen All-American, becoming eighth Freshman All-American at MSU and second under head coach Jake Boss Jr., joining second baseman Ryan Jones in 2010 ... On the Big Ten Conference All-Freshman team ... Earned MSU’s Steve Garvey Most Improved Player award ... Named B1G Freshman of the Week on March 27 ... Was Michigan State’s starting left fielder in all 24 B1G games, playing in 41 games overall with 38 starts ... Led MSU with a .353 batting average overall, ranking third in the B1G ... Was also seventh in the B1G only stats with a .364 batting average ... Hit safely in 22 of 24 conference games, featuring a pair of 10-game hitting streaks in conference only action, with 20 in last 21 league contests ... Ended the season on a 13-game overall hitting streak, which started a day after his previous 13-game hitting streak was halted, finishing the season with a hit in 26 of last 27 games and 29 in 31 games ... Led the Spartans with 12 multi-hit games in conference only games, including three hits in two games (at Illinois on March 24, vs Minnesota on April 1) ... With a .416 on-base percentage, was tied for 14th in the league ... Also tied for 17th in the B1G with 13 stolen bases, ranking tied for 11th in the conference only stats with six swipes.
2021 (SENIOR): Garnered Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition ... Earned Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Collected the Jerry Sutton Student-Athlete MSU team award ... Earned the MSU SASS Scholar-Athlete Award for 2021 for having the highest GPA on the baseball team ... Also recognized with Highest Honors for MSU Athletics Honor Roll ...Led MSU and ranked sixth in the B1G with 11 stolen bases ... Became the new MSU career stolen base king this season, as he broke the record on April 11 vs. Purdue, swiping his 80th career base, passing Anthony Cheky’s previous record of 79 from 2012-15 ... Broke the record in the first inning, by stealing third; after reaching on a walk, moved to second on a groundout, before swiping third ... After swiping No. 80, was congratulated by third base coach Graham Sikes, and presented the record setting base by a member of the MSU Facilities grounds crew in a special presentation, while the small crowd of family of the student-athletes gave Kelley a standing ovation ... The record-setting moment was No. 5 on NCAA Baseball’s Player of the Week ... Padded his record finished his Spartan career with 83 swipes ... At the plate, also led the team and ranked third in the B1G with 30 walks, as well as ranking sixth in the league in walks/game (0.68) ... Also finished third on the team in runs scored (26), fifth in hits (39) and on-base percentage (.357) ... Was one of two players to both start and play in all 44 games, joining Zaid Walker ... Posted a .239 average with 39 hits, 26 runs scored and 15 RBI ... In the field, logged 84 putouts and four outfield assists, including career-high two assists vs. Maryland (March 6-gm 2), adding an assist vs. Northwestern (March 12) and vs. Iowa (May 28) ... Finished the season on a season-high seven games hitting streak (May 16-30), as well as at least one hit in nine of last 10 games ... Registered nine multiple hit outings, with seven coming in first 10 games of season, including season-high three hits in two games that came in a three-game span, vs. Northwestern (March 13-gm 2) and vs. Illinois (March 20) ... Logged lone extra-base hit of season with a double at Michigan (March 21) ... Posted two games with multi-RBI, logging two ribbies in back-to-back games, coming vs. Michigan (May 9) and at Ohio State (May 14) ... Also had streak of at least one RBI in four-straight games (April 4-11) ... Swiped season-high two stolen bases vs. Maryland (March 6-gm 1), part of three swipes in the weekend series, adding one in nightcap ... Scored two runs in a game twice, last doing so vs. Rutgers (May 21), along with opening the season in back-to-back games with two runs (vs. Maryland March 5-6) ... Added two sac flies and one sac bunt ... Came on to pitch in relief role vs. Iowa (May 28) and pitching hitless, scoreless 1.0 inning, ringing up a strikeout.
2020 (SENIOR): Earned 2020 CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic First-Team All-District® accolades ... Earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition ... Collected Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Collected the Danny Litwhiler Defensive Player of the Year MSU team award ... Earned the MSU SASS Scholar-Athlete Award for 2020 for having the highest GPA on the baseball team ... Also recognized with Highest Honors for MSU Athletics Honor Roll ... Played and started in all 15 games of the shortened season, one of only two Spartans to start in every game, along with Bailey Peterson, and one of three players to play in all 15 contests, along with Peterson and Peter Ahn ... Started in center field in 13 games, while starting in left in first two games ... Second on team with a .400 average, ranking tied for fifth in the B1G and tied for 88th in the NCAA ... Also ranked sixth in the conference with a .486 on-base percentage ... Added a .417 slugging percentage ... Ranked second on team, along with tied for fourth in the B1G and tied for 74th in the NCAA with 24 hits ... Shared team and Big Ten lead with eight stolen bases, ranking tied for 45th in NCAA ... Also ranked tied for second in conference and tied for 44th in country with 0.53 stolen bases/game ... Added one double and four RBI, while drawing nine walks ... Also had one sacrifice hit ... In the field, posted perfect 1.000 fielding percentage, with 19 putouts and two assists, along with using speed to cut down several hits, turning doubles into singles ... Highlight outfield assist was his throw to Gabe Sotres for the tag at the plate in top of ninth for defensive walk-off vs. Western Carolina on Feb. 29, to preserve 4-3 Victory for MSU ... With a WCU runner on second with two outs, a single up the middle went to him in center and he charged and came up throwing, firing a frozen rope to Sotres at home and he applied to tag to nab the WCU runner at the plate for the final out and the defensive walk-off ... Other outfield assist came vs. Morehead State on Feb. 16 with a double play on a flyout and doubling-up the runner at second ... Tabbed as the Big Ten Conference Co-Player of the Week on Feb. 17, for his performance in the opening weekend for first career Big Ten Player of the Week award ... He is the first Spartan to collect Big Ten Player of the Week accolades since former teammate Royce Ando earned the honor on May 13, 2019, as Michigan State has now won two of the last three Player of the Week honors dating back to 2019 season ... He hit .647 (11-of-17) for the weekend, which led the Big Ten by over .100, as well as ranking 15th in the NCAA after the first weekend of the season ... He was the only player in Big Ten to hit over .500 that played in four games, leading Michigan State to a four-game sweep of Morehead State in Charleston, South Carolina at Shipyard Park, as the Spartans were the only Big Ten team to win all four of their games on the weekend ... The 11 hits also led not only the Big Ten, but shared the lead for the most in the NCAA, and was three hits more than any other player in the conference ... He had at least two hits in all four games played, including going 4-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored, adding one stolen base in Michigan State’s 15-3 win in the series and season-opener on Feb. 14 ... He also went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored in game one of the doubleheader the next day ... He was also a standout on the basepaths, swiping three stolen bases on the weekend, which shared the lead in the Big Ten with two teammates, Danny Gleaves and Bailey Peterson ... Overall, he posted a .647 on-base percentage, which was second in the Big Ten and a .706 slugging percentage, that was fifth, also ranking fifth in runs scored with five ... He was also second in the B1G in total bases with 12, only trailing teammate Peter Ahn who had 13 ... Led the team with the longest hitting streak of the season, getting a hit in the first 13 games of the season, before going hitless in game 14, but had a hit in the 15th game, giving him at least one hit in 14 of the 15 games of the season ... Also shared the team-lead with reaching base in all 15 games, joining Bailey Peterson ... Tied for second on team with six multiple-hit games, including in each of the first four games of the season, with at least two hits in each of those games, highlighted by four hits in season-opener vs. Morehead State on Feb. 14, along with three hits the next game and two hits the next two games ... Finished season with a pair of three-hit outings and three contests with two hits each, adding three hits vs. Ball State (March 1) and two hits vs. Kansas (Feb. 28) ... Had one multi-RBI game, with two, also in season-opener vs. Morehead State ... Had four stolen bases in first five games, including streak of one in three-straight games (Feb. 15-16), as part of six swipes in the first eight games and eight stolen bases through first 12 games of season ... Had streak of drawing at least one walk in four games, including two walks vs. Louisiana (March 7), his second two-walk outing of the season, joining Feb. 22 vs. Merrimack ... Lone extra-base hit of season was double vs. Morehead State (Feb. 15) ... Defensively, had six games with multiple putouts, highlighted by season-high four vs. Merrimack (Feb. 22), while making two in five other games, including back-to-back contests vs. Louisiana (March 7) and vs. Samford (March 8).
2019 (JUNIOR): Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award Recipient ... Academic All-Big Ten ... Tabbed as the Danny Litwhiler Defensive Player of the Year team award ... Made 53 starts out of the 54 games in the season, the most at any one position for the Spartans ... Led the Spartans and ranked third in the B1G with 18 stolen bases ... Was part of a speedy Spartan trio with junior outfielder Danny Gleaves and senior infielder Marty Bechina that were all ranked in the top 10 of the career stolen base list and the Spartan trio is the only the active threesome in the country to have three players on the respective school stolen base list, at No. 2 with 64 stolen bases, Bechina was No. 9 with 35 and Gleaves at No. 10 with 34 ... At the play, hit .300, ranking second on the team ... Also led MSU’s regular outfielders with a .990 fielding percentage, with 90 putouts and five assists, while committing just one error ... Topped MSU and ranked tied for sixth in the conference with 65 hits, along with ranking fifth in at bats (217) and ranking 12th in total plate appearances (235) ... Was also tied for ninth in the league with five sacrifice bunts ... In B1G only action, was tied for eighth in average, hitting .323, and tied for fifth in hits (31), tied for sixth in at bats (96) ... Let MSU with 16 multi-hit games, highlighted by tying career-high four hits in three different games, first doing so at New Orleans (Feb. 16), then at Rutgers (April 13) and vs. Northwestern (April 27), while rapping three hits in six games and posting pair of hits in seven contests ... Shared team-lead with an eight-game hitting streak (April 19-27), along with having a nine-game on-bast streak (March 30-April 13), including drawing at least one walk in five-straight games, with a pair of walks in two games in that span, part of four games with two walks, drawing 17 free passes on the season ... Posted 12 RBI for the year, including two RBI in two contests, vs. Indiana (April 21) and season-finale vs. Illinois (May 18).
2018 (SOPHOMORE): Academic All-Big Ten ... Became MSU’s single-season stolen base record holder with 33 swipes, topping former teammate’s Brandon Hughes’ record that lasted all of one season, with 30 stolen bases in 2017 ... Led the Big Ten and ranked third in the NCAA with 0.66 stolen bases per game, as well as leading the conference and ranking 10th in the country with the 33 stolen bases ... Nearly doubled his season output in the Niagara series, swiping six in the four games, including two each on March 15 and 16 before swiping five in the three games vs. Michigan ... Stole at least one base in 24 total games, and also had multi stolen bases in seven games, led by a career-high three at Michigan on March 23 ... Teamed with fellow outfielder Danny Gleaves to be not just the only pair in the Big Ten with 20 or more stolen bases, but they were just part of six sets of two or more players in the country with 20+ stolen bases ... Posted a .263 average at the plate, with six doubles and two triples, and scored 28 runs ... In the outfield, tallied a .960 fielding percentage with seven assists.
2017 (FRESHMAN): Collegiate Baseball Freshmen All-American, becoming eighth Freshman All-American at MSU and second under head coach Jake Boss Jr., joining second baseman Ryan Jones in 2010 ... On the Big Ten Conference All-Freshman team ... Earned MSU’s Steve Garvey Most Improved Player award ... Named B1G Freshman of the Week on March 27 ... Was Michigan State’s starting left fielder in all 24 B1G games, playing in 41 games overall with 38 starts ... Led MSU with a .353 batting average overall, ranking third in the B1G ... Was also seventh in the B1G only stats with a .364 batting average ... Hit safely in 22 of 24 conference games, featuring a pair of 10-game hitting streaks in conference only action, with 20 in last 21 league contests ... Ended the season on a 13-game overall hitting streak, which started a day after his previous 13-game hitting streak was halted, finishing the season with a hit in 26 of last 27 games and 29 in 31 games ... Led the Spartans with 12 multi-hit games in conference only games, including three hits in two games (at Illinois on March 24, vs Minnesota on April 1) ... With a .416 on-base percentage, was tied for 14th in the league ... Also tied for 17th in the B1G with 13 stolen bases, ranking tied for 11th in the conference only stats with six swipes.
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