Missouri State

Honors
• MVC Player of the Week (April 22, 2024)
• Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
• MVC Honor Roll (2022-23)

Senior/Career Summary
Played in 45 games as a senior and batted .256 with 13 home runs and 36 RBI...Slugged .597 with a .436 on-base percentage...Reached safely in the final 26 games of his career, slashing .345/.782/.513 with 11 homers and 30 RBI over that span...Ranked fifth in the MVC in league games with a .465 on-base percentage...MVC Player of the Week on April 22, which included a stretch of reaching safely in nine consecutive plate appearances...Led off two games with home runs - March 3 vs. Arkansas State and May 18 vs. Southern Illinois...In 91 career games, collected 41 extra-base hits with 25 home runs and 75 RBI, batting .231 and slugging .559.

2023 (Junior)
Started 41 games for the Bears between catcher, first base and designated hitter in his debut season...Batted .211 but slugged .526 with 23 of 32 hits going for extra bases...Ranked 10th in the MVC with 12 home runs while adding 10 doubles and a triple...Drove in 39 runs, good for fourth on the team...Had 12 games with multiple RBI, driving in four runs against UIC (April 15) and Belmont (April 22)...Also had two home runs in the UIC game...Drove in three runs in games against SIUE (March 10), SEMO (March 14), Illinois State (April 1) and Belmont (April 21)...Drew 22 walks and scored 26 runs...Started behind the plate for the Bears’ school record-tying 19 strikeout pitching performance versus SIUE (March 10), recording 18 putouts to finish one short of the MSU record in that category.

Background
Highly-decorated prep catcher in Minnesota who played one season at the University of Minnesota and another at North Iowa Area Community College...Top-rated catcher in Minnesota by Prep Baseball Report as a senior in 2020 and graduated ninth on the state’s career RBI list with 111...Ranked in the top in the state in hits, average and RBI in each of his three high school seasons (senior year in 2020 was canceled due to COVID-19) and was a career .466 hitter...Played in 23 games with 14 starts as a true freshman at Minnesota in 2021, batting .179 with six of his 10 hits going for extra bases...Earned first-team all-region honors at NIACC in 2022, batting .353 with 19 home runs and 51 RBI...Slugged .720 on the season with 35 extra-base hits.

Personal
Cody Kelly is the son of John and Becki Kelly...Born June 29, 2001, in Buffalo, Minn....Father played baseball at Johnson County CC and College of Charleston...Pursuing a general business degree.