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Ex-Rutgers Nick Cimillo has been promoted to the Pittsburgh Pirates High-A team

On August 1, the former All-Big Ten player Nick Cimillo got promoted to the High-A Greensboro Grasshoppers in the Pirates organization. 

Former Rutgers catcher Nick Cimillo signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates in late July. The Pirates signed the former Scarlet Knight with their 16th-round pick, No. 470 overall. Since signing with the Pirates, Cimillo has been climbing the ladder ever since.

While with the Scarlet Knights, Cimillo led the Big Ten conference in batting average (.385), slugging percentage (.707), and on-base percentage (1.199) during the 2022 season. Also, he ranked top ten in walks, hits, home runs, runs, and total bases.

When signing with the Pirates, the New York native from Suffern, New York, started with the Low Single-A team, the Bradenton Marauders. While playing Low Single-A ball, Cimillo appeared in 59 games throughout the 2022 and 2023 seasons. He recorded eight home runs, 50 hits, 29 RBIs, 32 walks, and 48 strikeouts throughout 179 at-bats. In 2023, Cimillo logged a .288 batting average and an OPS of .952. 

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On August 1, 2023, the former All-Big Ten player got promoted to the High-A Greensboro Grasshoppers in the Pirates organization.

In the last two games with the Greensboro Grasshoppers, the 6-foot-3, 215-pound catcher recorded two hits, two RBIs, one walk, two strikeouts, and a batting average of .400 in five at-bats. His best game came on Wednesday, where he produced two RBIs in a 4-3 victory against the Asheville Tourists, a High-A team within the Houston Astros organization. Cimillo has the potential to continue climbing the ladder onto the Pirates’ Double-A team, the Altoona Curve.

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Awards continue to roll in for Rutgers baseball

Rutgers baseball and softball players continued to receive honors over the weekend. See who was honored and how they performed this season.

Awards season continued for Rutgers baseball this past weekend. Players on both the softball and baseball teams received honors this past Friday.

From the baseball squad, junior catcher Nick Cimillo was named the District 2 Player of the Year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA). District 2 consists of players from Connecticut, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Washington D.C. Cimillo finished the season leading the entire Big Ten conference with a .385 batting average, .707 slugging percentage, and 1.199 OPS.

His 16 home runs were tied for the team lead, and he led all Scarlet Knights in walks. He was near the top of every offensive category for Rutgers baseball this season.

Also, this past Friday, Gabrielle Callaway and Kyleigh Sand from Rutgers softball heard their names called when the ECAC announced their All-ECAC teams. Callaway, a graduate student outfielder, was named to the First Team All-ECAC and the sophomore shortstop Sand received honorable mention honors. This is the third set of honors the teammates will share this year, as both previously received National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) First Team All-Region honors and were the Scarlet Knights’ first-ever First Team All-Big Ten selections.

Callaway finished the season in a second-place tie on the single-season leaders’ list in RBIs with 47, and tied for eighth with 10 home runs. She was also near the tops in the Big Ten in multiple categories, including being first in sacrifice flies with six, and sixth in RBIs.

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The Alabama native also finished the season with a slash line of .377 / .472 / .649, good for seventh, eighth, and ninth in the Big Ten, respectively.

Sand was the table-setter all season. The lead-off hitter accrued a 398 batting average, the highest from a Rutgers player since 2011, and her team-leading 49 runs helped the Scarlet Knights score their most runs since 2015. Sand’s season resulted in her name being scattered amongst the best single-season numbers in program history. She finished with second-most hits with 68, third-most runs with 49, fourth-most walks with 33, tied for fifth most steals with 23, and the sixth-best batting average.

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On the Big Ten season leaders page, she finished fourth in both hits and stolen bases, fifth in batting average and on-base percentage (.495), and finished sixth in runs.

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