PISCATAWAY, N.J. –
Todd Frazier, a Rutgers baseball legend and 2019 inductee into the Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame, announced his retirement after playing 11 MLB seasons.
Frazier owns the legacy of being one of the greatest players in the history of Rutgers baseball. He was named consensus First Team All-America and was the unanimous Big East Player of the Year in 2007. That season, Frazier led Rutgers to 42 wins, tying the school record, and a Big East Tournament championship, where he received the Jack Kaiser Award as tournament MVP after hitting .520 (13-for-25) with three homers and seven RBIs.
His name is all over the Rutgers record books, as Frazier is currently the all-time leader in home runs (42) and runs scored (210), second in walks (138) and total bases (434), third in hits (241), slugging percentage (.625) and stolen bases (65) and fifth in runs batted in (152) despite only playing three seasons.
Gallery: (4-5-2022) Todd Frazier Through the Years
Frazier was a two-time MLB All-Star in 2014 and 2015 with the Cincinnati Reds and won the 2015 Home Run Derby. He hit 218 home runs in his career, including 131 in a four-year stretch from 2014-17. The 34th overall selection in the 2007 MLB Draft by the Reds, he made his debut in 2011 and also appeared with the White Sox, Yankees, Mets, Rangers and Pirates.
Frazier most recently earned a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games last summer. He started all games hitting in the middle of the lineup, including going 2-for-5 with a double and run scored against Japan in the quarterfinals.
Originally from Point Pleasant, New Jersey, Frazier previously starred on the Toms River East American Team that won the 1998 Little League World Series title.
