Attended Eastlake High School in Chula Vista and was rated as the 45th-best player overall in California as a senior in 2017...Schmitt led Eastlake High to the CIF championship game in 2016 and 2017...His father, Dan, is a retired commander at the San Diego district attorney’s office and currently works in law enforcement. His mother, Tina, works in bankruptcy court...Schmitt has a brother, Nick, who is six years older than him. Nick is a firefighter with Cal Fire...Schmitt says he modeled part of his game after former Giants IF Evan Longoria...Before attending and playing baseball collegiately at San Diego State, Schmitt used to go to their games when he was younger. He went to the games with his mom, who is also a San Diego State alum...SDSU offered him a scholarship when he was in 10th grade...Spent summer 2020 during the pandemic shutdown working out at home. He and his dad built a batting cage on the side of the house and his dad helped him work on groundballs...In 2022, Schmitt’s best friend and high school teammate, Micah Pietila-Wiggs, was killed in a car accident at age 21...Schmitt was in Arizona for Spring Training at the time. He went home to San Diego for three days to spend time with Micah’s parents...A year later, Micah’s parents attended Schmitt’s MLB debut...Schmitt spoke at Micah’s memorial service. He has a tattoo on his wrist of the letters LLM (Live Like Micah).
2025
Made his first career Opening Day roster and appeared in a career-high 95 games...Made 49 starts at second base, 23 at third, 12 at first base and one at shortstop...Slashed .237/.305/.401 with 34 runs, 15 doubles, 12 home runs and 40 RBI in the 95 games...Landed on the 10-day injured list on April 19 with a left oblique strain…Suffered the injury right before the game while hitting in the batting cage…An MRI revealed a Grade 2 strain...Reinstated from the IL on May 19 after missing 28 games...Assumed starting third base duties when Matt Chapman was placed on the injured list on June 10...Slashed .257/.360/.557 with three doubles, six home runs, 34 RBI, 11 walks and a .918 OPS in 87 plate appearances with RISP...Had a .761 OPS against right-handed pitchers with 10 homers and a .601 OPS with two homers vs. left-handers...Hit his first career grand slam on June 13 at Dodger Stadium off Yoshinobu Yamamoto…Became the fourth SF Giant to have his first career grand slam be at Dodger Stadium, joining Chris Speier (Sept. 23, 1972), Gary Matthews (Sept. 3, 1974) and Darin Ruf (July 21, 2022)...Hit another grand slam the next night off Enrique Hernández in the ninth inning to become the first player in franchise history with a grand slam in consecutive team games (Elias)...Was placed on the 10-day injured list on June 30 with right hand inflammation after being hit by a pitch on June 25...X-rays and a CT scan came back negative...Returned to the lineup but was scratched on both June 28-29...Was reinstated from the IL on July 7…Missed a total of 10 games...Was the team’s starting second baseman for the remainder of the season.
2024
Had four stints at the Major League level and appeared in 40 games with SF...Slashed .283/.477/.760 with six homers and 16 RBI in the 40 outings...Started the year at Triple-A Sacramento and recorded 31 RBI across 33 games with the River Cats leading up to his recall...Was recalled on May 10 and recorded his first career walk-off hit and RBI on May 12 vs. Cincinnati, hitting a game-ending double in the 10th inning...Owned a .991 OPS in 49 plate appearances vs. left-handed pitching with SF...After his fourth recall of the season on Sept. 18, Schmitt went 9-for-21 with two doubles, a homer, six RBI and three walks in nine games to finish the season...Spent most of the season at Triple-A Sacramento, where he hit .274 with 16 doubles, 13 homers, 58 RBI, 11 steals and an .812 OPS in 74 games...Hit 19 homers between San Francisco (six) and Sacramento (13).
2023
Made his MLB debut on May 9 vs. Washington…became the 19th player in Giants history to homer in his debut for his first MLB hit...also became the youngest Giant (24 years, 69 days) to homer in their ML debut since Will Clark (22 years, 26 days)...Was the 22nd Giant in the SF-era to record two or more hits in ML debut...Recorded at least one hit in nine of his first 10 big league games…his 16 hits through 10 games are the second-most in SF Giants history, only behind Al Gallagher’s 18 in 1970...Slashed .342/.351/.500 in first 20 MLB games through May 29…struggled at the plate from May 30 until he was optioned on Aug. 6, with a line of .121/.207/.161 in 49 games...Logged 42 games at shortstop, 35 at third base and 19 at second base...Had the top-26 hardest throws by a Giants infielder in 2023, with his top two registering at 94.1 mph...His 92.5 mph average on throws was second-hardest in MLB behind Cincinnati’s Elly De La Cruz (95.9mph) for second basemen, shortstops and third basemen...Had his first multi-homer game in the final game of the season vs. LAD on October 1...Was SF’s No. 4 prospect according to MLB.com entering the season…was named the 2023 Barney Nugent Award winner out of Spring Training...He slashed .300/.346/.435 with 28 runs, 13 doubles, a triple, four home runs and 33 RBI in 47 Triple-A games.
2022
Began the year with High-A Eugene and hit .273 with 14 doubles, 17 homers and 59 RBI in 93 games with the Emeralds... His 17 homers were tied for third-most in the Northwest League while his slugging percentage (.272) and OPS (.837) both ranked second... Earned a mid-season promotion to Double-A Richmond on Aug. 10 and appeared in 29 games for the Flying Squirrels, hitting .342 with 10 doubles, three homers and 16 RBI... Was promoted to a Triple-A after Richmond’s season ended and went 5-for-15 (.333) with a homer and three RBI in four games with the River Cats... Stood out for his impressive arm and was named 2022 MiLB Gold Glove winner after committing 10 errors across all levels (169 total chances)... According to Baseball America, Schmitt has the best infield arm and is the best defensive infielder in the Giants system for the second consecutive year.
2021
Logged his first season of pro ball, spending the entire year with Single-A San Jose but only playing in 64 games. He missed time a majority of the time after suffering a left wrist fracture after being hit by a pitch. He was also hit in the face earlier in the season and missed some time.
