| Joseph DiGeronimo |
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 | Class: Senior
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 | Hometown: Hawthorne, NJ
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 | High School: Hawthorne
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 | Height / Weight: 5-11 / 175
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 | Position: INF
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 | B/T: R/R
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42nd Round (No. 1248) selection by Baltimore in the 2007 MLB First-Year Player Draft
2007 Senior Season
All-NEC First Team ... Team MVP for the second-straight year ... Batted a team-best .347 (69-199), including a team-leading .351 during NEC play, to go along with team-highs in runs (42), hits (69), doubles (10), triples (6), totals bases (100) and stolen bases (29) ... Those numbers all ranked among the leaders in the NEC ... His success wasn't limited to the plate as he recorded a school-record 157 assists while committing just eight errors ... Started all 51 games ... Set the Wagner school-record for hits with his base knock of the day against CCSU (5/12) and finished his career with 219 ... Started the season on fire with hits in his first 20 games ... His walk-off home run gave the Green & White a thrilling 4-3 win over CCSU (5/13) on Senior Day ... Was 7-12 with seven RBI, six runs, three doubles and four stolen bases in leading Wagner to a four-game sweep of FDU (4/28-4/29) ... Went 3-5 with three RBI and two runs in 12-7 win over Winthrop (3/17) ... Was a perfect 4-4 from the plate with two RBI in pacing Wagner to a win over UMBC (3/11) ... At LIU (4/5) went 4-6 with two doubles and two triples in game one win ... Recorded three hits and two runs in game three victory (4/6) against the Blackbirds ... Rapped out four hits, five RBI and three runs over three games at CAA Champ VCU (3/23-3/25) ... Had two three-hit games at Quinnipiac (4/20; 4/22) ... Recorded hits in 19 of 28 NEC games ... Led the team with 20 multi-hit games and 12 multi-RBI games ... Hit .310 for his career raising his average 44 points over the last two years and ranks among the top-10 in runs (3rd), doubles (3rd), triples (3rd), stolen bases (2nd) and assists (1st).
2006 Junior Season
Turned in one of the best offensive-seasons in school history... Hit a team-best .344 (67-195) with a team-high 67 hits, 12 doubles, 87 total bases, 21 stolen bases to go along with 27 runs, two home runs, one triple and 19 RBI ... Also led the team in slugging percent (.446) OBP (.413) and walks (21) ... Started all 51 games he played at shortstop ... Recorded a team-high 19 multi-hit games, including 12 out of 13 at one point ... Had a season-best nine-game hitting streak to along with three other hitting streaks of at least six games ... Hit safely in 31 of his last 36 games and 41 of 51 overall ... Batted an astounding .375 (36-96) in 26 games against NEC opponents and hit safely in 21 ... In game one against Monmouth (5/20), he went 3-4 with two home runs, a double and three RBI while accounting for all of Wagner's offense in the 3-1 win ... In three-game sweep at FDU (4/1-4/2), was 8-13 with eight RBI ... In game two, he fell a home run short of the cycle and had a career-best five RBI ... Rapped out five hits in eight at bats in the last two games at Mount St. Mary's (4/9-4/10) ... Helped the Seahawks take two of three against NEC Champion Sacred Heart (4/14-4/15), reaching base in every game and finishing 6-10 with three runs and two RBI ... Rapped out a season-best four hits, the most by a Seahawk this season, in game one ... Went 1-3 in games against Sacred Heart (5/26) and CCSU (5/26) in the NEC Tourney ... Was 2-3 with a run in Wagner's 4-2 come-from-behind game-one win against Quinnipiac (4/29) ... Had two hits in the final two games of the series ... Was unstoppable in the month of April, hitting .420 in 21 games ... Came out of the gates red-hot, going 3-4 with two runs and a double in game one at CAA regular season champion James Madison (3/4) ... Went 2-4 at UCF (3/13) ... Recorded two hits against Army (3/26), St. John's (3/29), at Lafayette (3/30), at SFNY (5/6) and against Iona (5/11) ... Hit .427 when he led off an inning ... Made his collegiate pitching debut, throwing 0.2 innings of relief in game two at James Madison (3/4).
2005 Sophomore Season
Started all 37 games he played at shortstop ... Hit .266 (38-143) with eight doubles, one triple, two home runs and eight RBI ... Swiped a team-leading 15 stolen bases, ranking fourth in the NEC, getting caught just twice ... Hit .314 (16-51) during NEC play ... Had 11 multi-hit games and a seven-game hit streak ... Went 5-13 with two runs and two stolen bases against SFNY(5/14-5/15), helping Wagner qualify for the NEC playoffs ... In three-game set against NYIT (5/7-5/8), was 4-11 with a home run, two RBI and two stolen bases ... Went 3-8 with a home run helping Wagner split a doubleheader against Mount (5/1) ... Had a monster game vs. Chicago State (3/5), with a double, triple and three runs scored ... Was 3-4 with two runs and two stolen bases in 6-1 victory over CCSU (3/25) ... At James Madison (3/19-3/20), was 5-14 with five runs and three doubles in the three game series.
2004 Freshman Season
Played in and started 47 games at shortstop ... Had a pair of six-game hitting streaks, including the final six games ... Went 4-4 vs. Fordham (4/15) ... Batted .700 (7-10) with a runner on third and less than two outs ... Committed just two errors in the final 21 games.
Scholastic / Personal:
Played his prep ball at Hawthorne High School under John Passero ... Was named the 2002 Passaic County Finals Player of the Game after leading the Bears to the team-championship ... As a senior, helped Hawthorne to a repeat trip to the Passaic Championship game and was named third-team All-State ... Also named first team All-League, All-County and North Jersey ...Also was an all-conference selection in basketball as a sophomore and a junior... Off the court as he was a member of the National Honor Society ... Played this past summer with the Mohawk Valley Cobras in the New York Collegiate Baseball League ... Has two siblings; Matt (33) and Colleen (20) ... Graduated with a degree in sociology with a concentration in criminal justice at Wagner and would like to pursue a career in the FBI after baseball.
Year G/S AB R H RBI AVG. 2B 3B HR SB/A
2004 47/47 170 24 45 12 .265 7 0 1 8/11
2005 37/37 143 24 38 8 .266 8 1 2 15/17
2006 51/51 195 27 67 19 .344 12 1 2 21/27
2007 51/51 199 42 69 37 .347 10 6 3 29/33
Tot. 186/186 707 117 219 76 .310 37 8 8 73/88