2016 Baseball Roster
Bruce Steel
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 180
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Jupiter, Fla.
- High School:
- Cardinal Newman HS
2017:
ACC Co-Player of the Week (May 15)
All-ACC Academic Team
Career Summary
Spent five years at Wake Forest before signing a free agent contract with the Kansas City Royals ... Finished his career with a .237 average, playing in 133 games and starting 122 of them ... Totaled 103 hits, including 23 doubles and 24 homers to go along with 71 RBIs, 78 walks and 12 stolen bases.
2019 (Redshirt-Senior)
Played in 44 games and made 42 starts, 36 of them at third base and six at shortstop ... Served as a team captain ... Recorded the second double-digit home run season of his career, leaving the yard 10 times ... Also batted .252 with seven doubles, a triple and 25 RBIs ... Drew 30 walks for a career-best .387 on-base percentage ... Matched his career high with five stolen bases ... Recorded a trio of multi-homer games, going deep twice against Coastal Carolina (March 6), Virginia Tech (Apr. 6) and Davidson (May 7) ... Also homered against Furman (March 3), App State (Apr. 2), Charlotte (Apr. 23) and Clemson (May 18) ... All five stolen bases came in the last month of the season, against Gardner-Webb (Apr. 30), Miami (May 10, May 11), Clemson (May 18) and Florida State (May 21)
2018 (Redshirt-Junior)
Missed the majority of the season ... Started nine games (eight at shortstop) and went 5-for-28 with six walks for a .179 average and .361 on-base percentage ... Also hit a double ... Recorded a .971 fielding percentage at shortstop.
2017 (Redshirt-Sophomore)
Returned to the lineup in a big way, finishing the year with a .264 average, 13 homers, 10 doubles, 38 RBIs and 37 runs scored ... Also drew 35 walks and stole five bases in 52 starts ... Was stellar defensively, earning a .968 fielding percentage at shortstop, committing just one error over the final 36 games ... Recorded first-career multi-homer game at Florida State (May 14), also totaling five RBIs and a stolen base ... Added a trio of four-RBI games: against Southern Cal (Feb. 26), Radford (March 5) and at Louisville (Apr. 9) ... Went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs against Coastal Carolina (Apr. 11) ... Had a 10-game hitting streak from May 6-19 ... Blasted a big two-run homer to start a comeback in an NCAA Regional win over West Virginia (June 3) ... Totaled seven homers during ACC play and hit .278 during the NCAA Tournament ... Played summer ball with the Newport Gulls in the NECBL.
2016 (Sophomore)
Redshirted after tearing a ligament in his thumb during preseason practice ... Spent the summer with the Charlottesville TomSox in the Valley League.
2015 (Freshman)
Had a great defensive season at shortstop while showing flashes of a high-level bat ... Committed just three errors in 27 games at shortstop, good for a .959 fielding percentage ... Started 19 games ... Went 2-for-4 with a double and his first collegiate home run at Florida State (March 15) ... Posted first-career three-hit game against Miami (March 22), also scoring a pair of runs ... Went 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles and three RBIs against Charlotte (March 24) ... Didn't commit an error his first 18 games.
High School
2013 Honorable Mention All-American by Perfect Game ... Ranked in the top 500 prospects by Perfect Game and inside the top 100 in Florida ... Sun Sentinel's Class 5A-4A-3A-2A Player of the Year ... Had a .514 batting average with 22 RBI and drew 24 walks with five home runs, nine doubles and three triples and .900 slugging percentage in his senior season ... Was 23-of-23 in stealing bases ... Graduated with a 4.65 honors GPA and ranked 14th in his graduating class ... Hit .407 with 3 home runs and 33 RBI, while going a perfect 26-of-26 stealing bases in the spring of 2013 ... Selected to the 40-man USA Baseball 17U Trails in 2013 and named to the All-Trials Team ... Named to USA Baseball's 2014 National Development Team ... Invited to USA Baseball 2014 Tournament of Stars ... Named First Team All-County by the Sun Sentinel.
Personal
Born Dec. 26, 1996 in White Plains, N.Y. ... Parents are Thomas and Linda Steel.
