Gatorade 2018 - 2019: Player of the Year

Baseball - Georgia

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C.J. Abrams

Shortstop/Second baseman
BLESSED TRINITY HS
ROSWELL, GEORGIA
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-2
Press Release

Peak Performance

0.431

Batting average

27

RBI

0.723

Slugging percentage

42

Runs scored
“C.J. Abrams is a special talent. He has great speed and agility and is an outstanding bunter, but has a short powerful stroke as well. Everything he does looks very easy.”
Donnie Branch
Head Coach Head coach at LaGrange High head coach
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Athletic Excellence

The 6-foot-2, 182-pound senior shortstop and second baseman led the Titans (31-9) to the Class AAAA semifinals this past season, batting .431 with three home runs, 42 runs scored, 27 RBI and compiling a slugging percentage of .723. A 2018 Perfect Game All-American Classic team member and a 2018 Under Armour All-American Game invitee, Abrams is the nation’s second-ranked prep prospect as rated by Baseball America and Perfect Game.

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Academic Achievement

Abrams has maintained a 3.10 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball on scholarship at the University of Alabama beginning this fall, but is projected as an early round selection in June’s Major League Baseball draft.

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Exemplary Character

A devoted parishioner in his church community, Abrams has volunteered locally on behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, CURE Childhood Cancer and as a youth baseball camp counselor.