Ivan Melendez was named the winner of the 2022 Dick Howser Trophy on Friday morning. Melendez becomes the fifth Texas Longhorns player to win the award.
, Melendez leads the nation with his 32 home runs and his 94 RBIs. His .396 batting average is the 16th-best mark. Only eight players have scored more than Melendez, who has crossed home plate 75 times.
"I'd say probably the craziest thing is that you see some people have a good week or two, but he's had a good, I don't know, five months," UT shortstop Trey Faltine said this week."That's the crazy part of the season, he's just continuously doing it. It's almost like you go to the ballpark he does something even crazier than he did the game before."
In addition to being a school record, Melendez's 32 home runs are tied with Southern California's Mark McGwire , Fresno State's Lance Shebelut and New Mexico State's Billy Becher for the 13th-most in the history of Division I baseball. No player has hit more homers in the BBCOR bat era. This season, Melendez has stacked his résumé with the Dick Howser Trophy, the Bragan Slugger Award and Perfect Game/Rawlings and Collegiate Baseball's player of the year honors. He will find out on June 24 if he is UT's first-ever Golden Spikes Award winner. Of the last 10 Dick Howser Trophy recipients, seven have also taken home the Golden Spikes Award.
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