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12 Cole Zaffiro

  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 185
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Manhasset, N.Y.
  • Highschool Manhasset

Biography

Career Honors
2024:
Second-team All-Ivy (SP)
2024: Ivy League All-Tournament Team
2023: First-team All-Ivy (SP)
2023: NCAA All-Regional Team
Ivy League Pitcher of the Week (3/25/24)
Ivy League Pitcher of the Week (3/18/24)

2024: Signed with the New York Yankees as an Undrafted Free Agent ... Second-team All-Ivy (SP) ... Ivy League All-Tournament Team ... Named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week in back-to-back weeks (3/18, 3/25) ... Paced Ivy League pitchers in innings (77.2) and strikeouts (96) ... Led team in innings pitched, Ks, and games started (13) … Picked up the win throwing seven shutout innings while striking out a career-high 11 against Brown (3/22) … Struck out 10 and allowed just one run across 6.1 innings at Princeton (4/20) … Named to the Ivy League’s All-Tournament team after earning the win against Cornell (5/20) in Game 6 of the Ivy League Tournament after tallying six strikeouts over three innings of relief … Got the start in the NCAA Regional opener at Virginia (5/31), tossing six innings with three earned runs … Totaled at least five innings of work in eight starts ... Closed Penn career with 225 strikeouts, the second-most in program history, over 198.0 innings in 44 appearances, making 37 starts.

2023: First-team All-Ivy (SP) … NCAA All-Regional Team … Led team in innings pitched (72.0) and WHIP among starting pitchers (1.14) … Second on the team in strikeouts (80) and third in opponent batting average (.211) … Struck out seven in 4.2 innings in first start of the year, at South Carolina (2/25) … Earned first win of the year after seven strikeouts over seven shutout innings against Massachusetts (3/18) … Struck out nine, allowing one run over six innings, earning the win over Harvard (3/26) … Allowed just two hits in six shutout innings, striking out four and earning conference win over Brown (4/15) … Struck out career-high 10 in 6.1 shutout frames in conference win over Yale (4/22) … Struck out eight over career-high eight innings, allowing just two runs on four hits in NCAA Regional win over Samford (6/3).

2022: Started 10 of his 14 appearances on the mound, pitching to a 4.57 ERA with 51 strikeouts in 45.1 innings of work … Struck out five, allowing just one run in four innings in first appearance of the season, against SEC member Texas A&M (February 27) … Struck out five in four scoreless innings of work, picking up the win against Charleston (March 9) … Struck out three in 1.1 scoreless, hitless frames against Monmouth (March 16) … Struck out five in three scoreless innings, earning the win against Wagner (March 19) … Struck out five, allowing just one earned run over four innings in Ivy League win over Cornell (April 17) … Tossed three scoreless frames, striking out three against Yale (April 30).

2021: Season was limited to 14 games due to Ivy League restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic … Made three appearances and one start on the mound … Was one of two Quakers to not allow an earned run … In six innings of works, he stuck out four batters and scattered five hits … Pitched two-thirds of an inning of hitless relief against Villanova on March 28 … Got the start at La Salle on May 1 and pitched four shutout innings. 

High School: A four-year letter winner who captained the baseball team his senior year under head coach Mark Giardino … Perfect Game Preseason Honorable Mention All-American Team honoree in the Northeast Region … Also lettered three times in basketball, captain and Tom Emma Memorial Award recipient as Team MVP as a senior … Earned all-county as a senior … Manhasset High School Booster Club All-Sports Award recipient as a senior … Nassau County Basketball Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete Award recipient as a senior … Service and Citizenship Award recipient.
 
Personal: Son of Laura and John Zaffiro ... Enrolled in The Wharton School of Business.

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2021Freshman

    RHP
    6'2" 170 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2022Sophomore

    RHP
    6'2" 185 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2023Junior

    RHP
    6'2" 190 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2024Senior

    RHP
    6'2" 185 lbs
    12