Kent State University, OH

Kent, OH

20 MLB Alumni

MLB Players Who Attended Kent State University

Kent State University, OH — MLB Players Who Attended Kent State University
Player Name Debut Year Final Year G AB H HR AVG
Rich Rollins 1961 1970 1002 3303 887 77 0.269
Gene Michael 1966 1975 973 2806 642 15 0.229
Thurman Munson 1969 1979 1423 5344 1558 113 0.292
Art Kusnyer 1970 1978 139 313 55 3 0.176
Steve Stone 1971 1981 340 219 22 - 0.100
Bill Laskey 1982 1988 160 210 22 - 0.105
Randy Bockus 1986 1989 40 8 1 - 0.125
Chris George 1991 1991 2 - - - -
Jeff Tabaka 1994 2001 139 4 1 - 0.250
Dustin Hermanson 1995 2006 358 322 30 2 0.093
Travis Miller 1996 2002 203 - - - -
Joe Crawford 1997 1997 19 11 - - -
Mike Gulan 1997 2001 11 15 - - -
Joey Long 1997 1997 10 - - - -
Paul Hoover 2001 2010 40 100 25 - 0.250
John Van Benschoten 2004 2008 26 21 2 1 0.095
Andy Sonnanstine 2007 2011 135 24 7 - 0.292
Emmanuel Burriss 2008 2016 326 768 182 1 0.237
Dirk Hayhurst 2008 2009 25 3 - - -
Chris Carpenter 2011 2012 18 - - - -

Kent State University in the major leagues

Kent State University (Kent, OH) has 20 alumni in the major league record. Debuts run from 1961 (Rich Rollins) to 2011 (Chris Carpenter). The games column peaks with Thurman Munson at 1423. Among alumni with long careers at the plate, Thurman Munson has the best average, .292. Rows with no batting line, such as Chris George, Travis Miller, and Joey Long, are players who did not bat in the majors, most of them pitchers. More of the school's major leaguers debuted in the 1990s than in any other decade. Nearby on the site: Kenyon College, Lake Erie College, and Lakeland Community College, also in OH. Only schools where a player's college baseball is documented in the Lahman database appear here.