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Jersey Number 9
Jacob Anderson
- Position:
- INF
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 204
- B/T::
- R/R
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Oakland Township, Mich.
- High School:
- Notre Dame Prep
CAREER NOTES: Named to the 2025 Lou Gehrig Community Impact Team, annually recognizing the giving character and community impact of collegiate baseball players, and was the only player from the Big Ten Conference on the nine-player list and only of only two players from a Power 4 conference team ... A three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and garnered Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition once.
2025 (REDSHIRT-JUNIOR): Named to the 2025 Lou Gehrig Community Impact Team, annually recognizing the giving character and community impact of collegiate baseball players, and was the only player from the Big Ten Conference on the nine-player list and only of only two players from a Power 4 conference team ... On the field, was a team leader and captain, as well as versatile infielder ... Off the field, involvement in the community included serving as the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Representative for the baseball team, actively participating in various initiatives aimed at giving back to others ... Contributed to events like Teams for Toys, the Student-Athlete Food Drive, and the Student-Athlete Career Mixer, all of which serve to support both the local community and his fellow student-athletes ... Voted one of two team captains with Sam Busch ... Garnered both Academic All-Big Ten accolades and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition ... Played in 34 games with 25 starts, including 24 at third base and one at second base ... Logged 14 hits, including two doubles and two home runs, with 13 RBI and nine runs scored ... Added five walks and one stolen base ... Notched a season-high two hits on March 1 vs. Harvard at Fluor Field in Greenville, S.C., that came one day after a season-high three RBI on a three-run HR to left center field at Fluor Field in the 14-1, seven-inning run-rule Victory for MSU over Harvard ... Also added a solo homer to left in the sixth inning vs. Iowa on March 14 in the Spartans’ 12-8 11-inning win over the Hawkeyes ... Had a season-long seven-game reached base streak March 23-April 11 ... Logged 18 putouts and 44 assists between playing third base and second base.
2024 (REDSHIRT-SOPHOMORE): Collected Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Played in 19 games, making 13 starts, missing action with injuries, making eight starts at first base and five starts at second base ... Posted a .255 average with four doubles and one HR, with six RBI, adding one stolen base ... Bashed home run in season-opener vs. Merrimack (Feb. 16) ... Logged three multi-hit games, led by season-high three hits in season-finale vs. Nebraska (May 18) ... Tallied two RBI for season-highs, first in season-opener vs. Merrimack (Feb. 16) and adding two more vs. Niagara (April 6) ... Had a season-long five-game reached base streak to open the season (Feb. 16-23), including season-long three-game hit streak, with at least one hit in four of the first five games ... Posted ..973 fielding percentage with 59 putouts and 13 assists.
2023 (REDSHIRT-FRESHMAN): Earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition ... Played in 21 games making palindromic 12 starts, with six at designated hitter, five at second base and once at third base ... Shared the team lead for games as a sub with nine, coming as on pinch hitter eight times and once as defensive sub ... Logged a .205 average with a .410 slugging percentage and a .367 on-base percentage ... Knocked five extra base hits out of eight total hits with one HR, two triples and one double, logging three RBI and drawing six walks, while getting hit-by-pitch four times and knocking two sac bunts ... Rapped first collegiate hit in collegiate debut making first start in an MSU uniform on March 3 at Charleston, knocking a single, scoring a run and getting hit-by-pitch along with a walk ... Bashed first HR and first triple of Spartan career vs. Wofford (March 8), finishing a career-high 3-for-4 with all three RBI of season coming in that outing, with one run and a hit-by-pitch ... Knocked a double vs. Ohio State (Arpil 7), and a triple the next day, also against OSU ... In the field, posted 14 assists and 12 putouts, highlighted by nine assists and four putouts in three games in Charleston, with three assists and one putout at Charleston (March 3), two assists at Charleston Southern (March 4), then four assists and one putout at Charleston (March 5).
2022 SEASON (REDSHIRT): Redshirted the 2022 season.
HIGH SCHOOL: Was a four-year letterwinner at Notre Dame Preparatory for head coach Jason Gendreau ... Earned All-District honors as a senior, guiding Fighting Irish to 23-9 record ... Selected to play in the MHSBCA East-West All Star Game at Comerica Park ... Junior season was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic ... Garnered All-District accolades as a sophomore, in helping Notre Dame to a 24-16 mark ... Was a two-year team captain ... Also a three-year letterwinner in basketball for the Fighting Irish, and two-year team captain, earning Most Improved Player award as a junior ... Played summer club league for Arsenal Baseball for coach Eddie DeWalt, helping team to number one ranking 16U team in Michigan, posting a .429 average ... Rated as the No. 8 infielder in Michigan and the No. 36 overall player in Michigan by Prep Baseball Report at time of signing with MSU ... Invited to the 2020 Michigan Top Prospect Games I-East and the 2019 Michigan Prospect Games ... Also a three-year letterwinner on the Notre Dame Prep basketball team, and was a two-time team captain ... A two-time recipient of the Notre Dame Preparatory Highest Honors Academic Scholar Award, and was the Academic Scholar-Athlete of the Year as a senior ... Chose MSU over Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Columbia, Army West Point, Oakland, Bucknell and others.
PERSONAL: Son of Lorelie and David Anderson ... Majoring in kinesiology at MSU ... Has career ambitions of being a professional sports athletic trainer or physical therapist when his baseball career is complete ... Lists his dad as biggest baseball influence because of how much he went through to help him become the player and young man that he is today and how everyday hard work pays off ... Lists greatest athletic experience of hitting a buzzer-beater 3-pointer to send district basketball tournament game into overtime because the adrenaline and energy inside the gym was ecstatic, and his senior baseball season because of bond of brotherhood working hard toward goal and having fun at same time.
2025 (REDSHIRT-JUNIOR): Named to the 2025 Lou Gehrig Community Impact Team, annually recognizing the giving character and community impact of collegiate baseball players, and was the only player from the Big Ten Conference on the nine-player list and only of only two players from a Power 4 conference team ... On the field, was a team leader and captain, as well as versatile infielder ... Off the field, involvement in the community included serving as the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Representative for the baseball team, actively participating in various initiatives aimed at giving back to others ... Contributed to events like Teams for Toys, the Student-Athlete Food Drive, and the Student-Athlete Career Mixer, all of which serve to support both the local community and his fellow student-athletes ... Voted one of two team captains with Sam Busch ... Garnered both Academic All-Big Ten accolades and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition ... Played in 34 games with 25 starts, including 24 at third base and one at second base ... Logged 14 hits, including two doubles and two home runs, with 13 RBI and nine runs scored ... Added five walks and one stolen base ... Notched a season-high two hits on March 1 vs. Harvard at Fluor Field in Greenville, S.C., that came one day after a season-high three RBI on a three-run HR to left center field at Fluor Field in the 14-1, seven-inning run-rule Victory for MSU over Harvard ... Also added a solo homer to left in the sixth inning vs. Iowa on March 14 in the Spartans’ 12-8 11-inning win over the Hawkeyes ... Had a season-long seven-game reached base streak March 23-April 11 ... Logged 18 putouts and 44 assists between playing third base and second base.
2024 (REDSHIRT-SOPHOMORE): Collected Academic All-Big Ten accolades ... Played in 19 games, making 13 starts, missing action with injuries, making eight starts at first base and five starts at second base ... Posted a .255 average with four doubles and one HR, with six RBI, adding one stolen base ... Bashed home run in season-opener vs. Merrimack (Feb. 16) ... Logged three multi-hit games, led by season-high three hits in season-finale vs. Nebraska (May 18) ... Tallied two RBI for season-highs, first in season-opener vs. Merrimack (Feb. 16) and adding two more vs. Niagara (April 6) ... Had a season-long five-game reached base streak to open the season (Feb. 16-23), including season-long three-game hit streak, with at least one hit in four of the first five games ... Posted ..973 fielding percentage with 59 putouts and 13 assists.
2023 (REDSHIRT-FRESHMAN): Earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition ... Played in 21 games making palindromic 12 starts, with six at designated hitter, five at second base and once at third base ... Shared the team lead for games as a sub with nine, coming as on pinch hitter eight times and once as defensive sub ... Logged a .205 average with a .410 slugging percentage and a .367 on-base percentage ... Knocked five extra base hits out of eight total hits with one HR, two triples and one double, logging three RBI and drawing six walks, while getting hit-by-pitch four times and knocking two sac bunts ... Rapped first collegiate hit in collegiate debut making first start in an MSU uniform on March 3 at Charleston, knocking a single, scoring a run and getting hit-by-pitch along with a walk ... Bashed first HR and first triple of Spartan career vs. Wofford (March 8), finishing a career-high 3-for-4 with all three RBI of season coming in that outing, with one run and a hit-by-pitch ... Knocked a double vs. Ohio State (Arpil 7), and a triple the next day, also against OSU ... In the field, posted 14 assists and 12 putouts, highlighted by nine assists and four putouts in three games in Charleston, with three assists and one putout at Charleston (March 3), two assists at Charleston Southern (March 4), then four assists and one putout at Charleston (March 5).
2022 SEASON (REDSHIRT): Redshirted the 2022 season.
HIGH SCHOOL: Was a four-year letterwinner at Notre Dame Preparatory for head coach Jason Gendreau ... Earned All-District honors as a senior, guiding Fighting Irish to 23-9 record ... Selected to play in the MHSBCA East-West All Star Game at Comerica Park ... Junior season was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic ... Garnered All-District accolades as a sophomore, in helping Notre Dame to a 24-16 mark ... Was a two-year team captain ... Also a three-year letterwinner in basketball for the Fighting Irish, and two-year team captain, earning Most Improved Player award as a junior ... Played summer club league for Arsenal Baseball for coach Eddie DeWalt, helping team to number one ranking 16U team in Michigan, posting a .429 average ... Rated as the No. 8 infielder in Michigan and the No. 36 overall player in Michigan by Prep Baseball Report at time of signing with MSU ... Invited to the 2020 Michigan Top Prospect Games I-East and the 2019 Michigan Prospect Games ... Also a three-year letterwinner on the Notre Dame Prep basketball team, and was a two-time team captain ... A two-time recipient of the Notre Dame Preparatory Highest Honors Academic Scholar Award, and was the Academic Scholar-Athlete of the Year as a senior ... Chose MSU over Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Columbia, Army West Point, Oakland, Bucknell and others.
PERSONAL: Son of Lorelie and David Anderson ... Majoring in kinesiology at MSU ... Has career ambitions of being a professional sports athletic trainer or physical therapist when his baseball career is complete ... Lists his dad as biggest baseball influence because of how much he went through to help him become the player and young man that he is today and how everyday hard work pays off ... Lists greatest athletic experience of hitting a buzzer-beater 3-pointer to send district basketball tournament game into overtime because the adrenaline and energy inside the gym was ecstatic, and his senior baseball season because of bond of brotherhood working hard toward goal and having fun at same time.
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