Fort Worth-based Bobby Bragan Award adds three more Texas players to its watch list
The Fort Worth-based Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award has expanded its watch list.
The national college baseball award announced that 14 players have been added to the midseason watch list for the 2022 award, including Texas-based players Justin Wishkoski and Carlos Contreras (Sam Houston) and Brandon Pimentel (UT Rio Grande Valley).
Wishkoski ranks fourth in the country with a .429 batting average, while Pimentel (.409) and Contreras (.408) are also batting above the .400 mark. Contreras is second in the country with 60 RBIs.
“Determining the winner this year will be a challenge moving forward,” said Tracy Taylor, executive director of the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation.
The complete watch list is available on the award’s website BraganSlugger.com. A winner will be announced in June and honored at a gala in the fall at the Fort Worth Club.
The Bragan Award, created by the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation, became a national award in 2020. It’s based on performance at the plate, academics and personal integrity.
The award started in 2017 as an honor going to the top college hitter in Texas, with Texas Tech’s Hunter Hargrove and Dallas Baptist’s Devlin Granberg being the first two recipients. Texas Tech’s Josh Jung won it in 2019, shortly before the Texas Rangers made him a first-round pick in that year’s draft.
Nobody won it in 2020 as the college baseball season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. East Carolina’s Connor Norby was the 2021 recipient.
This story was originally published April 21, 2022 at 4:36 PM.
