Biography
Career Awards & Honors:
2nd Team ABCA NCAA Central All-Region OF (2021)
2x All-MIAA OF (2nd-team in 2021 & Honorable Mention in 2022)
3rd in Career Slugging Percentage at MSSU (.613 from 2020-2022)
T-5th most Single-Season Doubles at MSSU (21 in 2022)
6th most Single-Season At Bats at MSSU (218 in 2022)
T-8th in Career Doubles at MSSU with 46
T-9th most Single-Season Doubles at MSSU (20 in 2021)
T-10th most Single-Season Home Runs at MSSU (14 in 2021)
Professional Career
2022 - Played for the Grand Junction Jackalopes in the Pioneer League helping them to claim the leagues South Division title with a 62-33 record ... For the season Fitzpatrick slashed .344/.544/.398 for a .942 OPS with 160 at-bats in 40 games played, 55 hits, 38 runs scored, 11 doubles, seven home runs, 35 RBIs, 13 walks drawn, two stolen bases while recording 63 putouts and one assist in the outfield.
2022 - Fitzpatrick appeared and started in all 52 games for the Lions in the outfield ... Finished the season with a .294 average, 218 at bats, 47 runs scored, 64 hits, 21 doubles, a triple, nine home runs, 46 RBIs, slugged .523 with 22 walks, a .361 on base percentage while having 66 putouts and three assists.
2021 - Fitzpatrick appeared and started in 42 games for the Lions in the outfield ... On the season hit .369 with team-high 69 hits, 20 doubles, 14 home runs, 135 total bases and a .722 slugging percentage ... Defensively posted a .982 fielding percentage with 54 putouts and two assists.
2020 - Fitzpatrick appeared in 20 games for the Lions starting in 20 at left field... Hit .324 with 23 hits, 20 runs scored and 24 runs driven in... Had 10 extra base hits with five home runs and doubles...Defensively posted a 1.000 fielding percentage with 23 putouts.
Prior to Southern - Fitzpatrick transfers to Southern from Division I Missouri State University ... In 2019, Fitzpatrick saw action in 34 games with ten starts ... he finished with five hits, four RBIs and six runs scored ... In 2018, Fitzpatrick made an immediate impact on the Bears’ roster as a freshman, recording a team-high five pinch hits in his 34 overall games ... Batted .313 (5-for-16) as a pinch hitter and .333 (5-for-15) with runners in scoring position ... Reached base safely in six straight pinch-hit appearances, March 4-25, including hits in five at-bats in a row ... Recorded his first collegiate hit Feb. 18 vs. Texas Southern ... Came off the bench to deliver a pinch single to help spur a four-run rally in an eventual 8-7 win over Pepperdine (March 4) ... Delivered run-scoring pinch-hit singles in four MSU victories, including three in the month of March ... Doubled and scored two runs in a March 27 win at Kansas ... Registered hits in three consecutive Valley contests, April 29-May 6; scored twice as part of a 2-for-4 day that included his first home run — a three-run shot — as a Bear May 4 at Valparaiso ... Plated a run by drawing a bases-loaded walk in the MVC regular-season title-clinching game at DBU (May 19) ... Drew a walk in two plate appearances in his lone postseason action vs. Saint Louis (June 2) at the NCAA Oxford Regional ... Earned a spot on the MVC Academic Honor Roll ... Batted .253 with two homers and 25 RBIs for the Show-Me Collegiate League Cobras over the summer.
High School - Wrapped up a standout prep career at nearby Logan-Rogersville High School, where he was an All-COC-Small and all-district selection in each of his four seasons as a Wildcat ... A three-time Missouri Class 4 All-State selection and a 2017 preseason honorable mention All-Central Region choice of Perfect Game ... Hit better than .400 in three of his four seasons for Logan-Rogersville, including a freshman year in which when he batted .404 for a 26-5 squad that finished third in the state ... Batted .438 with 12 home runs as a senior, driving in 38 runs and scoring 29 more in just 25 games ... The No. 18 overall Class of 2017 prospect in the state of Missouri according to Prep Baseball Report, he was a two-time All-Ozarks pick and earned a Missouri Junior Sunbelt team selection in 2016 as well.
Personal - Jordan McGwire Fitzpatrick is the son of Steve and Tammy Fitzpatrick ... Born Jan. 20, 1999, in Springfield, Mo.
