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Clay Grady Season 2025

PositionIF
Weight170 lbs
Height5-9
ClassJunior
HometownSuffolk, Va.
High SchoolNansemond River
Bat/ThrowR/R

2024 at Virginia Tech

  • Statistics: Played in 52 games, making 52 starts ... Batted .335 through 188 at-bats ... Registered 63 hits, three doubles, four triples, and a home run ... Scored 38 runs and totaled 20 RBIs ... Drew 18 walks and four HBPs, posting a .394 on-base percentage ... Stole seven bases on 10 attempts ... Flexed a .982 fielding percentage, committing three errors at shortstop.

2023 at Virginia Tech

  • Statistics: Played in 48 games, making 37 starts ... Batted .307 through 150 at-bats ... Registered 46 hits, five doubles, a triple, and four home runs ... Scored 33 runs and totaled 34 RBIs ... Drew 15 walks and five HBPs, posting a .386 on-base percentage ... Stole four bases on five attempts ... Flexed a .992 fielding percentage, committing one error at shortstop.

Travel

  • Played three years with the Dirtbags as a shortstop under Coaches Jon Walker and Chad Anderson … Team was the 2021 WWBA Jupiter Tournament runner-up … Ranked the #14 player and #4 shortstop in Virginia and the District of Columbia by PBR VA/DC

High School

  • Played four years of varsity baseball as a shortstop under Coach Mark Stuffel at Nansemond River High School … Earned All-District, All-Tidewater, All-Region, and All-State honors throughout his four years and was awarded the Outstanding Metro Scholastic Baseball Player of the Year Award his senior year … Named to the 2020 and 2021 Perfect Game Preseason Underclass All-American team and to the 2022 Perfect Game Preseason All-American team … Played high school golf freshman year and made it to the Virginia Regional Championships under Coach Brandon Fry

Personal

  • Born February 5, 2004 in Norfolk, Virginia to David and Tracy Grady … Has two older brothers, Jake and Ben Grady, and one older sister, Ginna Grady … Interested in studying Business at Virginia Tech … Hopes to play professional baseball in the future … Elected high school class president, member of the Beta Club, named an honor graduate with a GPA of 4.4167, and graduated from the Project Lead the Way Engineering Program at Nansemond River High School