Brayan Hommy Rocchio...Hobbies include spending time with family, beach and surfing...Favorite singers are Mora and Myke Towers...Favorite player growing up was Asdrúbal Cabrera...Represented his state in national competitions on eight occasions.
2024
Spent first full season in the Majors and was named a finalist for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award at shortstop, finishing the season with 11 defensive runs saved, tied for second among qualified MLB shortstops (FanGraphs), while recording plus-five outs above average (Baseball Savant)...Rocchio and Andrés Giménez were the only pair of qualified middle infielders to finish with 10-or-more defensive runs saved this season...Launched his first career home run on June 7 at Miami, his first of eight in 2024…Also provided his first career postseason round-tripper in ALCS Game 1 at Yankee Stadium...Hit safely in each of Cleveland’s eight postseason tilts, batting .407 (11-for-27) over that stretch...Marked the longest hit streak to begin a player's postseason career in club history and tied for the fourth-longest hit streak by a Clevelander in the playoffs...Also tied with LAD’s Tommy Edman for the longest hit streak of the 2024 postseason by any player...Rocchio was the first player to tally an eight-game hit streak to begin his postseason career since ARI's Ketel Marte, who registered a 20-game hit streak to start his postseason career from 2017-23...Delivered two walk-off plate appearances in 2024…Capped off a three-run 10th inning to give Cleveland a 5-4 comeback victory against Minnesota on Sept. 18…His first career walk-off plate appearance was an RBI single on May 8 vs. Detroit in the 10th inning...Rocchio notched a career-high four RBI in four plate appearances on Sept. 3, registering just one at-bat (SF, HBP, 2R-HR, RBI-BB)...Became the third Clevelander with four RBI in a game with one AB (min. four PA), joining Travis Hafner (May 17, 2006 vs. KC; three BB, GS) and Rick Manning (Aug. 29, 1975 vs. MIN; two BB, two SH, GS)...Rocchio became the first player in MLB history to record four RBI in a game with one AB while hitting ninth (min. four PA)...Was tied for second in the AL with seven bunt hits...Appeared in 142 games at shortstop, making 121 starts...Was fourth on the club with 44 walks...Ranked eighth in the AL in B-R Defensive WAR (1.8) and tied for 17th in CS (six).
2023
Split the season between AAA Columbus and Cleveland, making five separate stints at the Major League level...Finished the season leading the Player Development system in runs, doubles, third in hits, T3rd in XBH, T3rd in triples and fourth in on-base percentage and walks...Enters the 2024 season as Cleveland’s second-ranked prospect and #80 overall, per Baseball America...Named "Clipper of the Year" by the club for his 2023 performance...Winter ball team (La Guaira) won the LVBP title, he batted a combined .328 (40-for-122) in the regular and postseason (37-G, 12 2B, HR, 21 RBI, 25 RS)...Opened the season at Columbus hitting safely in 24 of his first 25 games and 39 of his first 45 games through May 31, including an eight-game hit streak to open the season (3/31-4/8) and a 16-game hit streak from April 11 to May 3...Through the season’s first two months (3/31-5/31) Rocchio owned a .326 (60-for-184) batting average with 17 doubles, one home run, 30 RBI and an .863 OPS...Recorded another 16-game hit streak from July 1-26, hitting .379 (25-for-66) with a 1,013 OPS over that stretch...Four years younger than avg. AAA player, just 6PA vs. younger P's...Was initially called up to the Majors on April 19 but did not record an at-bat before being optioned the following day...Was recalled for the second time on May 16, making his debut as a pinch hitter and collecting his first hit on an infield single...In his longest stint at the Major League level (8/2-24) he hit .250 (13-for-52) with four doubles and four RBI...Started 98 of his 116 games at shortstop at Columbus with 11 starts at second base...Has primarily started at shortstop in his career, starting 314 of his 485 career games at the position (88 games at 2B)...19 of his 21 starts for Cleveland were at shortstop with the other two coming at third base...At Columbus, he owned a slash line of .259/.329/.399/.728 vs. LHP and a slash line of .289/.383/.431/.814 vs. RHP...Hit .299 (38-for-127) with 58 RBI with runners in scoring position.
2022
Spent most of the season in AA Akron before Aug. 20 promotion to AAA Columbus…Finished the campaign second in the organization in runs (83), third in hits (131), T4th in doubles (27) and T6th in homers (18)…Entered season 66th overall prospect in MLB (BA)…Hit .205 (36/176) through his first 48 games (June 12, .308/.313/.621) and a stint on the concussion IL, May 8-16… From June 15-July 30, he batted .360 (45/125) with nine 2B, eight HR, 23 RBI over the next 32 games to raise his average to .269…Enjoyed a pair of four-hit games at Erie on 6/30 and 8/17...At the time of his promotion to Columbus he was 7th in the Eastern League in runs (62) and 9th in hits (99)…Held his own at Triple-A despite nearly being five years younger (21.6) than the average league position player age (26.3)…Switch-hitter owned a slash line of .257/.336/.411/.746 vs. RHP and .260/.342/.462/.803 vs. lefties…Combined on the year appeared in 77 G at SS and 52 G at 2B…Appeared in 10 games for La Guaira in the LVBP (Venezuela) starting in late October.
2021
Enjoyed a very solid season in his first taste of full-season affiliate action and his first game played since 2019...Split the year between High-A Lake County and Double-A Akron, leading the organization in runs scored (79) in 2021... Also finished second in the system in extra-base hits (46), total bases (203) and steals, third in hits (122) and fourth in doubles (26) and RBI (63)...Was hit by 15 pitches (most in the system)... Began the year in Lake County and got off to a pedestrian start, hitting .207 (18-for-87) in May (4 XBH, 8 RBI) before batting .313 (25-for-80) in June with 13 XBH and 13 RBI...Batted .311 (23-for-74) over his last 19 games for the Captains before being promoted to AA Akron (remainder of season) on July 30...Batted .337 (29-for-86) with 8 2B, 3 3B, HR, 14 RBI and 18 runs over his final 20 games of the season (.928 OPS)...At 20 years of age, was nearly four years younger (3.9) than the AA NE league average...Hit safely over the final 12 games of the season (.340, 18/53)... After being promoted to Akron on July 30, Rocchio led the Double-A Northeast in hits (54), extra-base hits (23), total bases (93), runs (34), tied for the lead in triples (4), fourth in RBI (30) and fourth in doubles (13). During his time in Akron, Rocchio was named Double-A Northeast Player of the Week in Week 19 (Sept. 6-12)... On the year he batted .356 (31-for-101) as a right-handed hitter (13 XBH, 1.043 OPS) vs. LHP, hit .298 (36-for-121) with RISP and .311 (59-for-190) with runners on base...Combined on the year he appeared in 79 games at shortstop, 18 games at second base and 12 games at third base...Went 4-for-12 in the three postseason games (4 RS, 2 SB) for the Double-A Northeast champs...Batted .391 (27-for-69) in Venezuela winter league (LVBP) following the season (17G, 11RS, 6 2B, 3B, 2 HR, 6 RBI)...Enters 2022 the 3rd-best prospect in the system and best defensive INF (Baseball America).
