Indiana Baseball player Devin Taylor earns USA Baseball National Team Training Camp Invite

Indiana baseball player Devin Taylor has earned an invite to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp after another exceptional season.

The sophomore outfielder was one of the 56-player roster featuring the top, non-draft-eligible athletes in college baseball to be selected to participate in the training camp this summer.

After bursting onto the season as a freshman in 2023, Taylor followed that season up with another impressive campaign. He was named to the All-Big Ten First team after his sophomore season where he batted .357, with 20 home runs and 54 RBIs.

A late-season push led by Taylor and others saw the Hoosiers sneak into postseason play despite injuries and inconsistent play throughout the season. Their late-season run ended in Knoxville as they failed to advance past the regional round of the postseason.

Taylor is now the first Indiana baseball player invited to participate in the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp since Sam Travis and Kyle Schwarber in 2013.

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CARY, N.C. – Fresh off a prolific sophomore campaign for the Indiana Baseball team, outfielder Devin Taylor was selected to participate in the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp this summer. The 56-player roster features the top, non-draft-eligible athletes in college baseball.

The collection of invited players will feature in a two-game Stars vs. Stripes intrasquad series in North Carolina on June 26th and 27th before naming a final squad for a series of summer events. USA Baseball will announce a final Collegiate National Team-inclusive roster for an International Friendship Series against Chinese Taipei.

There will also be a Summer League Tour roster that takes on select teams from both the Appalachian League and the Coastal Plain League. The two sides will end the summer of USA Baseball with a Fourth of July friendly in Fayetteville, N.C.

Taylor, a back-to-back First Team All-Big Ten selection, tore up the competition in 2024 for the Hoosiers. The Cincinnati, Ohio native hit .357 across 59 games, smashing 20 home runs with 54 RBIs, 86 hits, 11 doubles, 67 runs and 37 walks. He became the first IU player with 20 home runs in a season during the BBCOR bat era (since 2011).

In just two seasons of college baseball, Taylor has hit .338 over 114 games with 149 hits. His 36 home runs are second most in program history across the first two years of a player’s career behind only Alex Dickerson (38 – 2009-10). Taylor is the first player in IU history to earn First Team Big Ten honors in both of his first two seasons of college baseball.

The last Hoosiers to participate in the Collegiate National Team system were Sam Travis and Kyle Schwarber, following their sophomore seasons in 2013. Taylor will be the sixth player in program history to feature in the USA National Team Training Camp.

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