May 23, 2000
WALNUT CREEK, CA -
University of California junior third baseman Xavier Nady and junior catcher Mike Tonis have been selected to the 2000 All-Pac-10 Baseball Team, it was announced Monday by Pac-10 Commissioner Tom Hansen. Two other Cal players were selected All-Pac-10 Honorable Mention, junior first baseman Clint Hoover and freshman outfielder David Weiner. The All-Pac-10 Team is selected by the league coaches.
Nady, who has been named one of 12 semifinalists for the 2000 Rotary Smith Award, batted a team-leading .329 (.340 vs. Pac-10) with a team-high 19 home runs and 59 RBI this season. He also led the Bears in runs scored (53), total bases (133), slugging percentage (.643) and had a team-high 22 multiple hit games and 16 multiple RBI games.
Nady established Cal school records for career home runs (57, third-best mark in Pac-10 history), career RBI (191, tied for the 10th-best mark in Pac-10 history), career total bases (479, sixth-best mark in Pac-10 history) and career slugging percentage (.729). He broke the school record of 50 home runs (Troy Penix, 1990-92) Apr. 14 versus USC, and is also third on the Cal all-time doubles list (53), fourth in runs scored (174), fifth in hits (243) and fifth on the Bears career batting average list (.370). Nady is also the all-time Pac-10 leader for career slugging percentage (.729), topping Mark McGwire's .718 slugging percentage at USC from 1982-84.
As a freshman in 1998, Nady was named the National Freshman of the Year, and this past spring he was named the National Preseason Player of the Year. He is also a two-time All-American, now a three-time All-Pac-10 selection, a two-time member of the USA National Baseball Team and was Baseball America's Summer Player of the Year in 1999.
This past season, Tonis batted a team-high .329 (team-high .363 vs. Pac-10) with a team-best 70 hits and 20 doubles. He also hit 13 home runs and had 47 RBI. Tonis is fourth on the Cal all-time career home run list (40), fourth on the career slugging percentage list (.611), sixth on the Bears all-time total bases list (367), seventh on the RBI list (140) and eighth on the career doubles list (44). He finished the season on a 12-game hitting streak (21-for-52, .404, 6-2B, 3-HR, 15 RBI) from Apr. 21 and earlier in the season had a team-high 14-game hitting streak this season (23-for-57, .404, seven doubles, five home runs, 18 RBI) from Mar. 10-Apr. 4.
Defensively, Tonis only allowed one passed ball the entire season and threw out 24 of 60 baserunners (40.0 percent). In a series against Arizona State Mar. 24-26, he threw out five Sun Devil baserunners, including three runners Mar. 26 in a 7-2 Cal victory. He has been named one of 10 semifinalist for the inaugural Johnny Bench National Collegiate Catcher of the Year and this is his second All-Pac-10 honor.
Hoover batted .296 (.340 vs. Pac-10) with 12 doubles, four triples, 13 home runs and 47 RBI for the Bears this season. He is now seventh on the Cal all-time career home run list (28) and earlier this season was named Pac-10 Player of the Week Apr. 24 after going 7-for-12 with two doubles, two home runs and five RBI in the Apr. 14-16 USC series. Hoover also hit a game-winning three-run homer Mar. 28 at Wichita State and had a game-winning homer in the 11th inning Mar. 3 versus Washington State.
Weiner batted .306 (.307 vs. Pac-10) in his first season at Cal with four doubles, a triple, five home runs, 24 RBI and a team-leading 12 stolen bases. He had a grand slam Apr. 25 versus Pacific and helped the Bears to a 9-5 win over USC Apr. 15, breaking a 5-5 tie by hitting a two-run homer in the eighth inning. Weiner also had the game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the ninth versus the Trojans on Apr. 16.
