Matt Lloyd

Matthew Stephen John Lloyd

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 205 lb.

• School Indiana University Bloomington, Iowa Western Community College
• High School Foothills Composite High School

• Born March 17, 1996 in Toronto, ON Canada

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Biographical Information

Matt Lloyd reached AA and has played for Team Canada.

Lloyd was on Canada's team in the 2014 Junior Pan American Games as they won Bronze. He hit .409 as a high school senior. He was excellent as a redshirt freshman in junior college in 2016, hitting .371 with 60 runs and going 7-0 with a 2.78 ERA, fanning 58 in 55 IP. The team made the 2016 NJCAA Division I Baseball World Series.

Transferring to Indiana, he batted .301/.393/.554 with 11 homers and 46 RBI in 58 games, going 3-2 with 9 saves and a 2.78 ERA. He tied Riley McCauley for 4th in the Big Ten Conference in saves, tied for 3rd in doubles and was 5th in slugging. He was second-team All-Conference as a utility man. In 2018, he fell to .275/.356/.458 but was even better on the hill (4-2, 7 Sv, 1.54). He was first-team All-Conference as a utility. He produced at a .280/.390/.573 clip with 17 homers and 59 RBI in 59 contests and went 0-1 with five saves and a 2.70 ERA. He was the "at-large" All-Big Ten pick.

The Cincinnati Reds took him in the 15th round of the 2019 amateur draft. The scout was Ben Jones. While he had been a solid pitcher in college, the Reds only used him in the field, as a 1B/OF primarily. He split 2019 between the Dayton Dragons (.224/.322/.421 in 23 G) and Billings Mustangs (.245/.333/.449 in 27 G). The 2020 minor league season was wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned in 2021 to bat .235/.333/.480 with 7 homers in 98 AB for the Chattanooga Lookotus, also playing four games with the ACL Reds (presumably a rehab stint). He hit only .187/.291/.333 in 20 games for the '22 Lookouts while battling a leg injury.

Released by Cincinnati, he was picked up by the Sioux City Explorers and started 2023 on fire (.367/.487/.689, 26 R, 28 RBI in 25 G) before joining Canada for the 2023 Pan American Games Qualifier. In the opener, he hit cleanup and played third base against Panama. He hit a two-run homer off Julio Denis with Jake Sanford aboard for the first runs of the event.