Sal Frelick #10

Selected in the 1st round of the 2021 MLB Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers out of Boston College... signed on July 20, 2021 through the 2023 season by scout Ty Blankmeyer... name is pronounced “FREE-lick” ... graduated from Lexington (MA) High School, where he also played football and hockey... attended Boston College, where he was named All-ACC First Team in 2021 as a junior (48g, .359, 6 HR, 27 RBIs, 13 SB)... was also named ACC Defensive Player of the Year that season and won a Rawlings/ABCA Gold Glove Award... was a semifinalist for the 2021 Golden Spikes Award... earned All-ACC Second Team and ACC All-Freshman honors in 2019 (39g, .367, 4 HR, 32 RBIs, 18 SB)... is a supporter of Best Buddies in his home state of Massachusetts; the organization assists middle school, high school and college youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities through mentor programs... totaled 12 varsity letters in three sports at Lexington High School as he was twice named a captain for the football, hockey and baseball teams... named the Boston Globe Athlete of the Year as a senior... posted 115 hits, seven home runs, 50 stolen bases and 95 runs in his high school career... earned Gatorade Player of the Year in football for the state of Massachusetts... two-time Middlesex League MVP in football and one-time MVP in baseball... played for the North Shore Navigators of the Futures Collegiate League in the summer of 2018... named the FCBL Top Pro Prospect and a Futures League All-Star as a .361 hitter with seven homers, 36 RBI and 22 steals... as a freshman in 2019 at Boston College, he was voted to the All-ACC Second Team and ACC All-Freshman Team... named a Freshman All-American by D1Baseball.com, Collegiate Baseball News and Perfect Game... honored as the NEIBA Rookie of the Year... as a sophomore in 2020 at Boston College, he started all 15 games and hit .241 (14-for-58) with a .414 slugging and .380 on-base percentage... son of Jeff and Patty Frelick; has two siblings, Nico and Francesca... recipient of the William J. Flynn '39 Memorial Baseball Scholarship Fund and The Gaillus Family Scholarship Fund... entered the 2023 season as the second-best prospect in the organization according to MLB.com and Baseball America; the magazine also named him best hitter for average and best athlete in the organization for the second straight year

2023

Appeared in 5 games with Italy in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, where he hit .304 with four RBIs, a walk, a stolen base and three doubles in 23 at-bats... began the Minor League season at Triple-A Nashville but landed on the injured list on April 20 and missed all of the remainder of April, May and parts of June

2022

Had one of the best first full seasons of anyone in his class as he climbed from High-A to Triple-A while pushing his average up and his K rate down at each stop up the ladder... hit .365/.435/.508 while fanning only 7.4 percent of the time during his 46-game Triple-A stint with Nashville.. entered the season as the third-best prospect in the organization according to Baseball America... batted .331 with 11 HR, 59 RBIs and 24 SB in 119 games between Class-A Wisconsin (21g), Double-A Biloxi (52g) and Triple-A Nashville (46g)... his 163 hits tied for third in all of Minor League Baseball... led the Brewers organization in runs (90), hits (163), batting average (.331), OBP (.403) and total bases (236)...

2021

In his first professional season, he batted .329 with 2 HR, 21 RBIs and 12 SB in 35 games between Rookie ACL Brewers Gold (4g), Class-A Carolina (16g) and Class-A Wisconsin (15g)