2024 Baseball Roster
Roster
Billy Butler
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 234
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Foster, R.I.
- High School:
- Ponagansett HS
- Prev School:
- Rhode Island
Named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the Fall 2023 semester…
Played for New England Collegiate Baseball League champion Newport Gulls…Appeared in 36 games for them in the regular season and playoffs and hit .265 with four home runs and 25 RBI…Hit .364 with two home runs and 11 RBI in seven playoff games…Played in the 2023 New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association All-Star game…
Rhode Island: Hit .326 over four seasons at Rhode Island in 87 games (56 starts)…Added 25 doubles, 19 home runs and 65 RBI…Served as a team captain and was an All-Atlantic 10 first team selection in 2023…Led the Rams in nearly every offensive category, including batting average (.349), hits (68), RBI (44) and total bases (124)…Notched a team-best 21 multi-hit games and 14 multi-RBI games…Ended the season with a 13-game streak of reaching base safely…Homered eight times in 10 outings to close out the year…Hit at a staggering clip of .417 in Atlantic 10 play…Slashed .349/.396/.636…Recorded a four-hit game against VCU (4-for-5), which helped Rhode Island secure its playoff spot (May 19)…Started in 49 of 50 games that he appeared…Fielded .984 as the team’s primary left fielder…Hit a home run in his only at bat of the season in 2022 before suffering a season-ending injury…Appeared in 24 games and made 23 starts in 2021…Led the team with a .337 batting average and a .584 slugging percentage…Collected 30 hits, including seven doubles and five home runs…Also drew 10 walks, scored 21 runs and drove in 17…The 2020 season was canceled after just 13 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic…Had not appeared in any games by the time the season was canceled…Appeared in 12 games and made five starts in 2019…Finished his rookie campaign with an .080 average…Was 2-for-25 on the season with three RBI and two runs scored…
High School: Played his prep baseball at Ponagansett High School…
Personal: Son of Bill Butler, Jr., and Madelynn Butler…Brother Rob is a catcher on the Rhode Island squad…Majoring in Liberal Studies.
