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: All-ACC Academic selection … ACC Academic Honor Roll member … 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.