#28 Raider Tello Season 2023-24

2024

• Started 54 games. 
• Led the team at the plate with a .357 batting average.
• Earned 79 hits in 221 at-bats.
• Tied for second on team with seven home runs. 
• Team-high 60 RBIs.
• Recorded a five-hit game versus Western Illinois on March 16th.
• Batted in six runs against Grand View on March 19th. 
• Team-high 19 doubles. 
• ABCA/Rawlings All-Midwest Region Second Team selection.
• First-Team All-Big Ten
• Agreed to terms as an undrafted free agent with the Philadelphia Phillies.

2023

• Started 59 games, all at third base.
• Had a .315 batting average with 14 doubles and four home runs.
• Posted a .958 fielding percentage.
• Started the season on a seven-game hit streak, followed by an 11-game hit streak from March 7th through March 31st.
• Went 5 for 5 with five RBIs against Western Michigan on March 25th.
• Hit his first home run as a Hawkeye against South Dakota State on March 19th.
• Registered five three-hit games, including both games against Indiana State at the NCAA Regional (3 for 4 and 3 for 5).
• Hit 14 doubles — good for third on the team, including three multi-double games (Grand View 3/22, Western Michigan 3/25, Northwestern 5/18).

2022 at Pasadena City College 

• ABCA All-America Pacific Association third-team All-American, first-team all-state (CCCBCA) and first-team all-conference in 2022
• Was named Pasadena’s 2022 Male Athlete of the Year
• Slashed .403/.454/.639 with 77 hits, 19 doubles, one triple, eight home runs, 53 RBIs and 42 runs scored
• Struck out 20 times with 14 walks
• Had 22 multi-hit games and 15 multi-RBI games
• Went 5-for-6 with two doubles, two singles and a home run and finished with four runs and seven RBIs in a win over LA Harbor, one of two games with five hits
• Pasadena record holder for single season hits (77), doubles (19), RBIs (53) and at-bats (191)
• Led team to regional CCCBCA Playoffs
• Team was ranked 15th in the state and finished fourth in South Coast Conference
• Team went 28-15 — the most wins since 1951

Portland (2021) 

• Redshirted

High School

• Pacific League Player of the Year as a junior
• Two-time first-team All-Pacific League and first-team all-area selection
• First-team All-CIF and second-team all-state as a junior
• Team MVP as a junior
• Second-team all-area as a sophomore and freshman team MVP
• 2019 Sportsman of the Year at Arcadia High School
• High school coach was Nick Lemas

Personal

• Born Feb. 25, 2001, in Baldwin Park, Calif
• Given name is Dominick Raider Tello
• Son of Jayson and Vanessa Tello
• Has a younger sister, Rylee
• Majoring in human physiology.