Antonio Torres-Skerrett

Antonio Torres-Skerrett III

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 190 lb.
• School Cal State Long Beach, Sacramento City College
• High School Antelope (CA) High School

• Born August 27, 1997

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Biographical Information

Antonio Torres-Skerrett has played in the US and Germany and for the Greek national team. He is the brother of Alejandro Torres-Skerrett.

He played baseball and football in high school, then hit .243/.396/? as a junior college freshman and .230/.418/? as a sophomore, fielding .992 the latter year. He hit .338/.509/.488 in Canada's Western Major Baseball League in 2017. Transferring to Cal State Long Beach as a junior, he struggled, going 5 for 34 with a double, though he did draw 9 walks. He fell to .231/.348/.385 his second summer with Regina. He batted .216/.275/.378 between two teams in the 2020 United Shore Baseball League. Moving on to Germany in 2021, he was dazzling for the Bad Homburg Hornets, playing that year in the German minor leagues. He hit .511/.639/1.064 with 6 homers, 24 runs and 33 RBI in 17 games; the lone negative was defense, as he allowed 8 steals in 9 tries and fielded .951 behind the dish. He led the Bundesliga-2 Southwest in average (.029 ahead of Allan Fanhoni), tied Fanhoni for the home run lead, led in RBI by ten, tied for 4th in hits (24), tied for first with six doubles, was second in runs (five behind his brother), led with 20 walks, was 4th-hardest to whiff, led in slugging (.153 ahead of Fanhoni), led in OBP by .057, led in OPS (253 ahead of Fagnoni) and tied for 7th in steals (9).

With Greece for the 2021 European Championship Qualifier, he was 6 for 12 with 5 walks, a double, two runs and two RBI as Greece won a spot in the 2021 European Championship; combining all four qualifying tournaments, he tied for 4th in walks. In the 2021 Euros themselves, he started at catcher for Greece. In their opener, he hit 7th against Italy. He struck out his first at-bat, versus Claudio Scotti, adding a single in the 7th off Murilo Gouvêa. The next day, he drove in four in a win over Austria. In their 5-4 loss to Belgium, he played a role in all Greece's runs, scoring in the 5th after reaching on a fielder's choice, then homering twice off Kenny Vandenbranden. He finished the Euros at .375/.423/.667 with two homers, seven runs and eight RBI in six games, while handling 59 chances error-free and catching 1 of 8 base-stealers. He led Greece in RBI (3 ahead of Tom Roulis), total bases (3 ahead of Ari Sechopoulos), runs (2 ahead of Dimitri Kourtis and Nick Halamandaris), homers (having half their total), slugging (.167 ahead of Sechopoulos) and OPS (142 ahead of Sechopoulos). For the tourney, he tied for 5th in dingers.