PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Former Rutgers All-American and current Cincinnati Reds prospect has been selected as a starter in the Double-A Southern League All-Star Game to be held Monday, July 13 at Regions Park in Birmingham, Ala.
Frazier, who plays for the Reds’ Double-A affiliate Carolina Mudcats, was chosen as the starting left fielder for the North Division team in the July 13 contest. An everyday starter for the Mudcats, Frazier has primarily played left field, while also seeing time at first base and third base. The slugger bats cleanup for Carolina where he is hitting .316 with 97 hits in 79 games this season. He has eight home runs, and 31 doubles, 43 RBI and 41 runs on the year. He enters the week on an eight-game hitting streak. Frazier is in his third season with the Reds after he was drafted in the first round of the 2007 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the organization.
Frazier, a consensus First Team All-American at Rutgers, was the unanimous selection as the 2007 BIG EAST Player of the Year and was a semifinalist for the Golden Spikes and Brooks Wallace awards, recognizing the National Player of the Year. He was also named the New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association Division I Player of the Year. Frazier finished the 2007 season fourth in the nation in both home runs (22) (including three grand slams) and runs per game (1.38), eighth in the country in walks per game (0.98), and 10th in the nation in slugging percentage (.757) and home runs per game (0.35). He broke the Rutgers single-season record for home runs (22), home runs by a leadoff hitter (22), runs scored (87), walks (62), doubles (24) and total bases (187) and finished in the top-6 in every offensive category, excluding triples. He led the BIG EAST in home runs, runs scored, slugging percentage and walks, and finished second in doubles, total bases and on-base percentage and ranked among the BIG EAST leaders in virtually every other offensive category. Frazier reached base safely in all but one of RU's 63 games during the 2007 season, including the final 57 contests.
In just three seasons with the Scarlet Knights, he placed himself on several Rutgers career record charts. Frazier is the Scarlet Knights' all-time leader in home runs (42) and runs scored (210), and is second in walks (138) and total bases (434), and third in hits (241), slugging percentage (.625) and stolen bases (65), and fifth in runs batted in (152). Frazier started all 174 games in his career with the Scarlet Knights, owning a .347 career batting average.
Todd is one of seven former Scarlet Knights currently with a Major League Baseball organization.
