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Gatorade 2024 - 2025: Player of the Year

Baseball - Massachusetts

Gatorade Player of the year

Bradley McCafferty

C
AUSTIN PREP
READING, MASSACHUSETTS
JUNIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-1
Press Release

Peak Performance

.367

Batting Average

23

RBI

.474

OBP

1.024

OPS
“McCafferty was very good against us. He’s a stud and a very good player. First-class kid as well.”
Tim Mitropolous
Head Coach - Phillips Exeter head coach

Athletic Excellence

The 6-foot-1, 195-pound  junior catcher led the Cougars to a 20-2 record this past season. McCafferty batted .367 with two home runs, 23 RBI and 22 runs scored, posting a .474 on-base percentage, .550 slugging percentage and 1.024 OPS. He also threw out 36.8 percent of would-be base-stealers, cutting down seven runners in 19 attempts. A two-time All-New England Preparatory School Athletic Council selection, McCafferty is ranked as New England’s No. 4 prospect in the Class of 2026 by Prep Baseball Report and No. 3 in Massachusetts by Perfect Game. 

Academic Achievement

McCafferty has maintained a 3.47 weighted GPA in the classroom. He has verbally committed to play baseball at Duke University beginning in the fall of 2026.

Exemplary Character

McCafferty has volunteered locally at a rehabilitation center and as a youth baseball coach.