Taylor Kohlwey #20

Taylor Scott Kohlwey graduated from Holmen (WI) High School before attending the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse... Was the 2016 Division III Player of the Year...Was named to the D3baseball.com 2010's All-Decade First Team in August 2020... Recorded a 51-game hitting streak across his 2015 junior and 2016 senior seasons, the second-longest streak in NCAA Division III history.

2023

Was with the Padres for 10 days in July, appearing in five games...Made his Major League debut on July 19 as the starting right fielder...Recorded his first career hit in that game.

2022

Spent the entire season with Triple-A El Paso, playing in a team-high 128 games and leading the Pacific Coast League in hits (149)....Hit for the cycle Aug. 10 vs. Sugar Land, the fourth time in team history an El Paso hitter hit for the cycle (first since Jason Vosler, July 25, 2019, at Las Vegas)....Hit .297 (149-for-501) with 32 doubles, four triples, 11 home runs, 82 RBI, 68 walks and a .389 OBP, .443 SLG, and .832 OPS...set career-high in hits, runs scored (87), doubles, home runs, RBI, and walks....His 149 hits in 2022 led the entire PCL and ranked fourth among all those at the Triple-A level...in the PCL, he finished T-3rd in doubles (32), fourth in OBP (.389), fifth in average (.297), T-7th in walks (68), and T-8th in RBI (82). ...Had a pair of 4-hit games in 2022 (June 29 vs. Oklahoma and Aug. 9 vs. Sugar Land)....His 14-game hitting streak ended on June 25, the longest of his professional career (previous career-long hit streak was 12 back in 2021 with the Chihuahuas)...Kohlwey became the third El Paso hitter in 2022 to attain a new career-long hitting streak, following OF Nomar Mazara and OF Shogo Akiyama...Had a 30-game on-base streak that ended on May 22 at Round Rock...it was the longest on-base streak of his professional career and tied for the longest of the season by an El Paso player.

2021

Began the season with San Antonio (AA) before being assigned to El Paso (AAA) on May 12...was assigned back to SA on June 2 before being re-assigned to ELP on June 16 where he remained for the rest of the season... While with the Missions, he hit .269 (18-for-67) with 5 2B, 1 HR, 13 RBI and 12 runs scored in 18 games for the Missions... Finished 3rd among Triple-A West leaders in batting average (.319) while with the Chihuahuas... Ranked among ELP club leaders in on-base percentage (.381, 2nd), RBI (56, 2nd), total hits (109, 3rd), walks (37, 4th), doubles (18, T-5th), runs scored (47, T-6th) and stolen bases (9)... Collected 27 multi-hit games, three 3-hit games and one four-hit game... Played in 97 games for ELP and made 33 appearances in RF, 23 in LF, 21 in CF, 18 at 1B and one as the DH...recorded 3 OF assists, T-2nd most on the club... Homered July 2 for his first career HR at the Triple-A level... the following night on July 3, he reached base five times out of the leadoff spot, going 4-for-4 with his 2nd career Triple-A home run, two RBI and one BB...his four hits and four runs scored both tied his career highs... In a July 11 game that was suspended and resumed on July 12, he hit an inside-the-park grand slam, the first in team history, and the fifth inside-the-park homer in team history... Had three triples on July 15, the most by a Chihuahuas player in a single game in team history. From 1913-2021, only 29 Major League players had three triples in a single game, with Yasiel Puig for LAD being the last to do so on July 25, 2014...in addition, the three triple game would have tied the old Pacific Coast League record for most triples in a game...it had happened only nine times in PCL history dating back to the early 1900's, and was last done by OF Peter Bourjos for the Salt Lake Bees on April 16, 2010 at Tacoma...no player in the recorded history of Major League Baseball has hit four triples in a single game... Overall in 25 July games, he slashed .379/.427/.568 with 3 2B, 3 3B, 3 HR, 17 RBI, 8 BB and 20 SO while converting all three of his stolen base opportunities... Posted a season and career-long 12-game hitting streak from Sept. 5-18, reaching base multiple times in each of those contests with a .452 batting average.