Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Updated: August 25, 5:51 PM ET
Maryland Baseball Player of the Year
ESPNRISE.com
In its third decade of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, Gatorade joined with RISE Magazine to name senior pitcher and first baseman KEVIN BRADY of GAITHERSBURG HIGH as its 2007-08 Maryland Baseball Player of the Year.
The 6-foot-3, 200-pound senior right-handed pitcher started 7-0 with a 0.31 ERA, recording 92 strikeouts in 45.1 innings at the time of selection and leading the Trojans (19-2) to the Class 4A West Region final. The returning Player of the Year as named by the Washington Post, Brady, also a first baseman, had produced a .409 batting average, 23 runs scored, 18 RBI and four home runs through 21 games. A 2007 East Coast Professional Showcase selection, he had compiled a .996 slugging percentage and .606 on-base percentage.
Brady has maintained a 3.36 GPA in the classroom. A member of the school's Key Club International chapter, he volunteers on behalf of multiple community-service initiatives, participating in the Gaithersburg High prevocational training Child & Adolescent Career Program in addition to donating his time as a mentor and instructor at local youth baseball clinics.
"Kevin's a big guy with a power arm, and he's got all the talent in the world," said Jerry Ford, president of Perfect Game USA, the world's largest baseball scouting report service. "He so big and strong and I even think he's got enough ability that he could turn out to be the top guy in the class of 2008. The sky's the limit with him."
Brady has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball at Clemson University this fall.
