2020-21 Baseball Roster

#24 Alex Brait Baseball Roster

Height 6-4

Weight 215

Class Graduate Student

B/T L/R

Hometown Viera, FL

High School Viera/FGCU

Bio / Statistics

HONORS AND AWARDS

AS A GRADUATE STUDENT (2021 – Notre Dame)

Played in 11 games and made seven starts on the year.
Finished with four hits, one run, one home run, 6 RBI and slashed .174/.174/.304.
In his first at-bat with the Irish, he hit his first career grand slam in the 5-4 win over No. 16 Wake Forest (2/27~2).
Brait graduated with a master’s degree in Nonprofit Administration in May.

AS A SENIOR (2020 – FGCU)

Preseason All-ASUN selection

Became the first player in program history to be named to the Buster Posey National Collegiate Catcher of the Year Watch List
Threw out a pair of runners from behind the dish, pushing him up to 26 runners caught stealing through his career
That effort ranks fourth all-time in the FGCU record book
Finished the season with a .993 career fielding percentage, which checks in at eighth all-time in the Eagle records
Appeared in all but one game during his senior campaign, starting every contest that he played in
Led the team with a total of six multi-hit games
Accounted for both the tying and winning runs during the game against Georgetown (March 10)
Capped off the year slashing .258/.323/.338 with four doubles and five RBI.

AS A JUNIOR (2019 – FGCU) | Game-by-Game Stats

2019 Second Team All-Conference

Second Team All-Conference selection after leading the league with 76 hits
One of two players that started all 55 games for the Eagles, primarily doing so behind the dish
Became the first player in FGCU history to have a perfect single-season stolen base percentage with more than eight attempts (10-10)
Tied for 10th on the FGCU single-season list after catching 11 runners stealing base
Led the team with 23 multi-hit games and finished nine multi-RBI games
Owned the team’s longest hitting streak (12 games) and at one point had a streak of reaching base safely in 17 consecutive games
Scored a single-game high four runs during the win over Bethune-Cookman (Feb. 16)
Pushed the tying run across and layer came around as the final run to cap off the largest comeback in school history in the 10-9 victory over Lipscomb (April 6)
Scored a team-high 48 runs
His season fielding percentage (.998) is the eighth-highest in a single season in FGCU history
Finished the season slashing .321/.414/.390 with eight doubles, one triple and four home runs
Added 30 RBIs and was credited with 98 total bases.

AS A SOPHOMORE (2018 – FGCU) | Game-By-Game Stats

2018 First Team All-Conference

1x ASUN Player of the Week (Feb. 19, 2018)

First Team All-Conference selection after leading the Eagles with a .335 average
Appeared in 48 games with 46 starts, appearing in the outfield and behind the plate
Slashed .335/.404/.467 in his second season
Posted multi-hit games in five of the first six games of the season and multi-RBI games in four of the first seven games
Hit a walk-off single in the first game of the year against Eastern Michigan (Feb. 16), the first of three walk-offs to open the season
Hit his first home run of the year in the finale against Eastern Michigan (Feb. 18)
During the first two weeks of the season, he tied his career-high with three RBI in three games (vs. Eastern Michigan Feb. 16; vs. Eastern Michigan Feb. 17; vs. ETSU Feb. 25)
Posted a career-high and tied a single-game FGCU record with four hits at Jackson State (March 31)
Later matched his career-high with three RBI on two hits against USC Upstate (April 21)
Finished the season with hits in eight of the final nine games, including four multi-hit games
Finished the season with 61 hits, five doubles, two triples, five homes runs, and 26 RBI
Also caught nine of the 28 runners attempting to steal

AS A FRESHMAN (2017 – FGCU) | Game-by-Game Stats

2017 ASUN All-Freshman Team

Appeared in 31 games and made 29 starts behind the plate and at DH
Ranked third on the team with a .296 average
Recorded his first collegiate hit in a 3-for-3 performance vs. #2 Florida (Mar. 7)
Hit his first collegiate home run in a 3-for-4 effort vs. Rutgers (Mar. 19)
Turned in four multi-hit efforts in his first seven games and was hitting .407
Drove in the winning run on a eighth inning RBI single at Miami (Apr. 12) as FGCU earned its first season series win against the Hurricanes in program history
Homered in a losing effort at UNF (Apr. 25)
Went 2-for-3 with a run and RBI as FGCU forced a winner-take-all ASUN Championship vs. Jacksonville (May 27)

PREP AND PERSONAL

In two full seasons at the varsity level, hit .327 with 26 RBI and 23 runs scored
Turned in a .351 clip his senior year
According to Perfect Game, is the 9th-ranked catcher and 90th-ranked player in Florida
2016 Perfect Game Honorable Mention All-American
Academic honors include: Honor Roll
Son of Matthew and Jackie Brait
Has two siblings, Andrew and Anna
Favorite athlete is Kevin Pillar
Favorite book is Moneyball