Sterlin Thompson #30

Sterlin Shaw Thompson...Slashed .332/.424/.524 across 121 career games at Florida...In 2021, earned spots on the Freshman All-SEC Team and the SEC All-Tournament Team...Earned SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll honors in 2021 and SEC Academic Honor Roll honors in 2022...Grew up a Rockies fan and his favorite player was Troy Tulowitzki...Became the highest-drafted outfielder in Florida Gators baseball history...Named Perfect Game’s No. 55 overall prospect in the 2020 class coming out of high school.

2024

Spent the entire season with Double-A Hartford, slashing .245/.319/.385 with 13 home runs, 57 RBI and 12 stolen bases in 119 games...Appeared at four different defensive positions for the Yard Goats: 80 games in left field, 11 at first base, one at third base and one at second base while also serving as the designated hitter in 27 games...178 total bases led Hartford while tied for fifth-best in the Eastern League...His 113 hits were second on the Yard Goats and were tied for seventh-most in the Eastern League.

2023

Split the season between High-A Spokane and Double-A Hartford, slashing a combined .293/.376/.487 with 25 doubles, 14 home runs, 56 RBI and 17 stolen bases...Combined, logged 499.0 innings at third base, 107.0 innings at second base and 79.0 innings in the outfield...Began the season with an eight-game hitting streak for the Indians, going 16-for 30 (.533) with four doubles, one home run, eight RBI and four stolen bases...Was slashing .323/.399/.520 with seven home runs and 14 stolen bases in 60 games with Spokane before being promoted to Hartford on Aug. 8...Reached base in 79 of his 94 games...Slashed .338/.460/.475 in 21 games with 13 RBI and seven stolen bases while with the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League … named a 2023 AFL Rising Star...Named a Northwest League Post-Season All-Star and an MiLB.com Organizational All-Star.

2022

In his first professional season, slashed .307/.351/.436 through 26 games between the ACL Rockies (15 games) and Single-A Fresno (11 games)...Went 5-for-11 with one RBI and one stolen base through his first three professional games in the ACL...Promoted to Single-A Fresno at the end of August, recording a hit in each of his first eight games (11-for-32)...Appeared in eight postseason games: four in the ACL (5-for-16) and four with Fresno (4-for-17) … five of his nine total hits fell for extra bases.