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RaphaelPelletier

  • position C
  • height 6-0
  • Weight 200
  • class Senior
  • Hometown Mascouche, Quebec
  • Previous School Kansas State
BIO

• All-Big 12, Honorable Mention (2023, 2024)
• Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Fall 2021, Fall 2020)

 

PRIOR TO KENTUCKY
A two-time All-Big XII Honorable Mention performer who has played in 151 games with 122 starts in his career…Has hit 19 home runs and 17 doubles in his career and is a.237 hitter with a .764 OPS…Enters the 2025 season needing one hit for 100 career.

2024 (KANSAS STATE)
Named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention..Appeared in 60 games, starting 57 behind the dish…Batted .210 with a .761 OPS in 181 at bats…Smacked seven doubles and nine home runs…Drove in 29 runs and walked 40 times…Threw out 12 runners attempting to steal…The wildcats advanced to the NCAA Super Regional.

2023 (KANSAS STATE)
Named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention …Played in 57 games with 53 starts behind the plate in 2023 … Slashed .257/.336/.383 with five doubles, six home runs and 28 runs batted in … Walked 22 times and scored 30 runs … Caught a league-high 16 runners stealing … Produced 10 multi-hit games and six games with multiple RBI, recording a season-high three RBI twice … Recorded season-high three hits during three contests … Put together a seven-game hitting streak from March 3-20 … Started all 24 games during Big 12 play, slashing .256/.344/.372 with three doubles, two home runs and 11 RBI.

2022 (KANSAS STATE)
Played in 34 games with 12 starts at catcher in 2022 … Slashed .264/.339/.585 with five doubles, four home runs and eight RBI … Had two multi-hit games and one outing with multiple RBI … Threw out eight runners in 22 stolen base attempts … Appeared in 11 games (two starts) during Big 12 play, slashing .273/.385/.636 with a double, homer and RBI.

2022 (KANSAS STATE)
Redshirted.

HIGH SCHOOL
Attended Ontario Virtual High School … Played for Academy Baseball Canada in Montreal under coach Maxime Hockhessen … Rated the No. 1 catching prospect in Quebec (No. 6 overall), according to Perfect Game … Originally committed to TCU … Represented Team Canada at the Pan-Am Games in 2018 … A 25th-round selection (No. 745 overall) by the Texas Rangers in the 2019 MLB Draft.

PERSONAL
Full name is Raphael Xavier Pelletier…Son of Annie Fournier…Has a sister, Roxanne…Committed to TCU out of high school before switching to Kansas State…Major is Social Science.
*Kansas State Athletics Communications contributed to this bio

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