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2013 Baseball Roster

1 Mike Porcaro

  • Height 5-8
  • Weight 170
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Burlington, Wis.
  • Highschool Burlington

Biography

2013: Named Horizon League Player of the Year after an impressive sophomore campaign ... earned honorable mention status on the CollegeBaseballInsider.com Louisville Slugger All-American squad, becoming the first Panther to earn All-American status since 2006 and the first-ever underclassman ... American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings Division I Mideast All-Region First-Team and All-Horizon League First-Team selections ... named a member of the Horizon Academic All-League baseball team ... led the team and league with a .364 batting average ... was the top hitter for the majority of the campaign, carrying a batting average of over .400 into mid-April that ranked in the top 10 of the NCAA at the time ... recorded team-leading totals of 41 runs, 68 hits, 14 doubles, 43 runs batted in and a .497 slugging percentage ... also finished second in the conference in slugging percentage, runs, triples and hits, third in doubles and on-base percentage (.417) and fourth in total bases ... led the league with eight sacrifice flies ... went 8-for-8 in stolen bases ... recorded a .973 fielding percentage on the season, but made just one error in the final 27 games, a span of 118 chances (.992) ... led the team with 20 multi-hit games and 15 multi-RBI games ... went 9-for-15 in the first three games of the season at New Mexico State Feb. 15-16, including a pair of four-hit efforts ... 3-for-4 against #20 Miami Feb. 23 ... tied career-high with four hits, going a perfect 4-for-4 against Wright State March 16 ... scored a career-high four runs against the Raiders that day, driving in two while adding a double and tying the school record with two triples in the contest ... 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI March 30 against Valparaiso ... hit his only home run of the season the next day ... set a career-high with four runs batted in against Youngstown State April 5 ... had two doubles and scored three times that day against YSU ... put together a season-high 12-game hitting streak April 7-May 2, batting .426 (20-for-47) in the span ... career-high six at bats in a win over Wisconsin Lutheran May 6 ... 2-for-2 with three runs scored and two RBI in win over Northern Illinois May 14 ... two hits and three runs driven in during UWM's Horizon League Tournament opener against Wright State May 24 ... three more hits against WSU in the tournament the next day ... named to the Horizon League All-Tournament Team ... U.S. Army ROTC Athlete of the Month in April ... College Sports Madness Horizon League Field Player of the Year and First-Team All-Conference ... also named to the College Sports Madness Second-Team Preseason All-Conference squad ... named to the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll ... co-author of "Diamond Chronicles" on the UWM website, the team player blog ... became the first league sophomore to earn the player of the year award since 1996.

2013 game-by-game in PDF Format

2012: Earned Second-Team All-Horizon League honors after a season in which he batted .316 in 40 games ... also selected to the All-Newcomer team ... made 37 starts, scoring 25 runs, recording 43 hits and knocking in 18 runs ... posted a .411 on-base percentage ... led the team with a .353 average in league contests ... worked his way into the starting lineup at the end of March, batting .367 the rest of the way ... first start and hit came against East Carolina Feb. 18 ... 3-for-5 with a triple, two runs scored and two RBI against Butler April 5 ... pair of hits, runs and RBI in series finale two days later ... season-high four hits, driving in two, at Wright State April 13 ... had three hits in series finale to go 8-for-12 at WSU ... 2-for-3 at Iowa May 1 ... three hits and a season-high three RBI at Butler May 12 ... 3-for-3 with a pair of runs scored against Butler in Horizon League Tournament May 24 ... named to the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll.

2012 game-by-game in PDF Format

2011: Redshirted and maintained freshman eligibility.

High School: Earned Second-Team All-Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association honors, First-Team WBCA All-District honors and First-Team All-Southern Lakes Conference honors as a senior, with team going 25-3 overall ... hit .513 with 11 doubles and 22 RBIs out of the leadoff position, drawing 23 walks, stealing 15 bases and recording a .625 on-base percentage ... committed just one error in the field and broke school records for hits (40) and runs (40) ... hit at a .410 clip with a .541 on-base percentage as a junior ... earned first-team all-conference honors ... also selected First-Team All-County by the Racine Journal Times his last two years and to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel All-Area First Team as a senior ... national scholar athlete award honoree ... was double-play combo with UWM teammate Tell Taylor ... also an honorable-mention all-state volleyball player ... won the Demon Award for top male athlete in class ... National Honor Society ... Badger Boys State representative.

Personal: Son of Anthony and Barb Porcaro ... brother, Anthony, plays baseball at Marian University ... majoring in journalism ... chose UWM because he liked the staff and the direction the team is going ... career goal is to play professional baseball and work for ESPN ... hobbies include video games, playing other sports and hanging out with friends ... most memorable sports moment was winning the 2008 State Legion tournament ... born April 29, 1992.


 
Batting Statistics
Michael Porcaro
Season

G

AB

R

H

2B

3B

HR

RBI

Avg.

TB

Slg%

SB

2011Did Not Play -- Redshirted
2012

40

136

25

43

3

1

0

18

.316

48

.353

4-7

2013

49

187

41

68

14

4

1

43

.364

93

.497

8-8

Totals

89

323

66

111

17

5

1

61

.344

141

.437

12-15

Statistics

Season Statistics

Season Statistics

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Career Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 1

    2012Freshman

    2B
    5'8" 170 lbs
    1
  • 1

    2013Sophomore

    2B
    5'8" 170 lbs
    1