Career Stats
Catcher and outfielder who emerged as one of the team’s best hitters in 2013 and 2014 after playing sparingly in 2012 … started the 2014 season sharing the catcher role with Chris Okey, but moved to left field in early May due to injuries to other players … a career .295 hitter with a .372 on-base percentage in 150 games (138 starts) over three seasons … had 30 doubles, one triple, 12 homers, 82 RBIs, 88 runs, 56 walks, 13 hit-by-pitches and five steals … two-time Johnny Bench Award Watch List member … drafted two times in his career.
2014: Drafted in the 16th round (No. 485 overall pick) by the Cincinnati Reds and signed in June … team co-captain … Johnny Bench Award Watch List member … Second-Team All-ACC selection … second-team All-ACC by CollegeSportsMadness.com … hit .302 with 38 runs, 16 doubles, four homers, 35 RBIs, a .380 on-base percentage, 29 walks against only 24 strikeouts, four hit-by-pitches and one steal in 61 games (61 starts, including 24 as the DH, 20 at catcher and 17 in left field) … tied for fourth in Tiger history in sacrifice flies (8) … tied for 10th in the nation in sacrifice flies … tied for 10th in the ACC in doubles … hit .383 with seven doubles, three homers, 19 RBIs, 16 runs and a .447 on-base percentage in 24 games as a catcher … went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs against Maine on Feb. 23; was 6-for-10 with a double, five RBIs and three runs in the series … went 3-for-5 with a homer, two RBIs and three runs against Virginia Tech on March 9 … went 3-for-5 with a double, three runs and a walk in the second game of a doubleheader at Wake Forest on March 15 … went 2-for-4 with a homer, two RBIs and two runs against No. 1 Florida State on March 21 … went 2-for-4 with a homer, three RBIs and a walk at No. 2 Virginia on April 12 … went 4-for-5 with a homer, double and three runs against Coastal Carolina on April 15 … went 3-for-4 with a double, run and hit-by-pitch at Pittsburgh on April 20; was 6-for-12 in the series … went 1-for-1 with a double, two RBIs and three walks against UNLV on May 5 … went 3-for-6 with two runs and a walk against Boston College on May 17; scored the walkoff run from first base on Jay Baum’s two-out double in the 13th inning … No. 20 ACC prospect for the 2014 draft in the preseason by Baseball America.
2013: Gregg Olson Award semifinalist … Johnny Bench Award Watch List member … ACC Academic Honor Roll member … won the Mitchell Award, given to the team’s most valuable player; just the second catcher since 1979 to win the award … hit .308 with 43 runs, 12 doubles, one triple, eight homers, 45 RBIs, a .377 on-base percentage, 22 walks, five hit-by-pitches and two steals in 61 games (60 starts at catcher) … led the team lead in homers, RBIs, total bases (108) and slugging percentage (.476); became the first catcher to lead Clemson in slugging percentage since 1997 and homers since 2004 … committed only two errors and had a .995 fielding percentage … had 21 multiple-hit games and a team-high 10 multiple-RBI games, including a team-high four games with four RBIs or more … hit a team-high .368 with runners on base and .329 with runners in scoring position … hit a team-best .361 with five homers and 33 RBIs in 34 games at home … named ACC Co-Player-of-the-Week on March 25 for his performance in five games from March 19-23; went 8-for-16 (.500) with one homer, eight RBIs, three runs and three walks … went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBIs and two runs against William & Mary on Feb. 17 … went 4-for-5 with a team-tying-season-high two homers, a team-tying-season-high five RBIs and a team-tying-season-high three runs at No. 8 NC State on March 8; had a team-season-high 10 total bases; those were his first two career homers; his first long ball was a three-run homer off Carlos Rodon and broke a 4-4 tie in the fifth inning … went 3-for-5 with a homer, triple, a game-high four RBIs, two runs and a walkoff single with two outs in the ninth inning against No. 12 Virginia on March 16 … went 2-for-4 with a homer and four RBIs against Morehead State on March 19 … went 2-for-2 with one RBI, two runs and two walks against Morehead State on March 20; was 4-for-6 with one homer, five RBIs, three runs and two walks in the midweek series … hit the go-ahead, run-scoring groundout in the 11th inning and added a double and run at No. 1 North Carolina on April 1 … went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer and walk against Gardner-Webb on April 3 … went 2-for-5 with a homer against Presbyterian College on April 10 … went 3-for-4 with four RBIs, two runs and a steal against Western Carolina on April 24 … went 2-for-5 with one RBI, a walkoff run and one walk in the second game of a doubleheader against No. 19 Georgia Tech on April 26 … went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a walk against Georgia Southern on May 10 … went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs against Georgia Southern on May 12; was 6-for-10 with four RBIs, five runs and one walk in the series … went 2-for-5 with a team-tying-season-high two doubles at No. 8 Florida State on May 18 … went 3-for-4 with a homer and double against No. 9 NC State in the ACC Tournament on May 22; earned All-ACC Tournament honors by going 4-for-13 (.308) with one homer and one double in three games … went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI against Liberty in the Columbia Regional on June 2 … No. 8 college prospect in South Carolina for the 2014 draft in the preseason by Perfect Game … one of eight participants in the TD Ameritrade College Home Run Derby in Omaha, Neb. on July 3.
2012: Hit .214 with seven runs, two doubles, two RBIs, a .323 on-base percentage, five walks, four hit-by-pitches and two steals in 28 games (17 starts, including 16 in left field and one at catcher) … had a team-tying-high .500 on-base percentage when leading off an inning … was 6-for-18 (.333) with two doubles and a .429 on-base percentage in his last 11 games (seven starts) … was 5-for-16 (.313) with two doubles, five runs and a .421 on-base percentage in April … hit a run-scoring single in the second game of a doubleheader against UAB on Feb. 18; it was his first career game and start … went 2-for-3 with a double and run against Winthrop on April 3 … went 1-for-2 with two runs and a hit-by-pitch against Western Carolina on April 4 … went 2-for-3 with a double and run at Duke on April 7 … went 1-for-2 with a run against Furman on May 15 … played for New Market in the Valley Baseball League in the summer, where he hit .222 with five doubles, 10 RBIs and three steals in 24 games.
Before Clemson: Drafted in the 42nd round (No. 1,283 overall pick) by the San Diego Padres … No. 141 player in the nation and No. 5 player in South Carolina by Perfect Game … No. 12 player and No. 2 catcher in South Carolina by Diamond Prospects … No. 23 prospect in South Carolina for the 2011 draft by Baseball America … Anderson Independent-Mail Player-of-the-Year as a senior … hit .533 with nine homers, 27 RBIs and 21 walks in limited at-bats as a senior … lettered four times in baseball and four times in football at T.L. Hanna High, where he was coached by Adam Comstock.
Personal: His brother, Ben, was a freshman linebacker on the 2013 Clemson football team who had 25 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss in 11 games … majoring in management … born Garrett Andrew Boulware on Sept. 9, 1992 in Atlanta, Ga.