Tom Roulis

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Thomas Roulis

  • Bats Both, Throws Right
  • Height 5' 10", Weight 175 lb.

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Biographical Information[edit]

Tom Roulis has played in the indies and for the Greek national team. He is also a third-degree black belt in Soo Bak Do and has won international tournaments. [1]

Roulis was All-county in baseball as a high school junior and senior and All-state in soccer. [2] As a freshman at Dartmouth, he hit .257/.335/.349 with 32 RBI in 41 games; he tied for 6th in the Ivy League in RBI. He was 9 for 23 with two doubles and two homers as a sophomore before a hamstring injury ended his season. [3] As a junior, he was healthy again and batted .300/.344/.407. He was among the league leaders in hits (45, tied for 7th), triples (4, tied for 1st with Alec Keller), RBI (25, tied for 9th), assists (124, 2nd) and hardest to strikeout (1st, 1 K per 10.7 AB). He then missed a year with injury. As a redshirt senior, he hit .328/.373/.420, finishing 8th in the Ivy League in average and OBP. He was All-Ivy League at short. [4]

Turning pro in 2017, he hit .354/.399/.436 in the United Shore League, followed by .311/.387/.390 in the same loop the next year. He then signed with the Trois-Rivières Aigles, producing at a .263/.331/.369 clip and going 6-for-7 in steal attempts, fielding .949 at short. He then played for Greece in the 2019 B-Level European Championship, batting .333/.500/.667 with ten runs in five games, while handling 23 chances error-free. He was among the event leaders in OBP (tied for 7th), runs (tied Viacheslav Vasilev and Mitch Glasser for first), homers (2, tied for 2nd, 4 behind David Castillo) and assists (tied Castillo for 3rd). [5]

At the 2021 European Championship Qualifiers, he drove in 3 against Poland and was 4 for 4 with 4 runs in a rout of Romania. He hit .563/.579/.813 with seven runs and six RBI in four games as Greece won a spot in the 2021 European Championship, though he fielded .846 at short. He wasn't Greece's only Ivy Leaguer; they also had Harvard alum Max Warren. Among all four qualifiers, he tied for 7th in runs, led in doubles (4) and was 4th in average (between Dimitar Nassapov and Predrag Kukoleca). [6] In the 2021 Euros, he grounded out his first at-bat against Italy's Claudio Scotti but singled off Murilo Gouvêa later that day. He hit .250/.276/.357 with five RBI in six games for the Euros, fielding .969. Even though his average and OPS were below the team mark, he still tied for second on Greece in hits (3 behind Ari Sechopoulos) and was second in RBI (3 behind Antonio Torres-Skerrett). [7]

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