{"id":199144,"date":"2026-03-11T01:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:13:29","slug":"caden-ferraro-earns-big-12-newcomer-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/199144\/","title":{"rendered":"Caden Ferraro earns Big 12 Newcomer of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">IRVING, Texas \u2013 After hitting 7-for-9 with three doubles, a home run and five RBIs, Texas Tech outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/caden-ferraro\/14093\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14093\" target=\"_blank\">Caden Ferraro<\/a> was named the Big 12s Newcomer of the Week, the league announced Monday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Big 12s leader in average and on-base percentage, Ferraro helped the Red Raider sweep Penn State, as Tech outscored the Nittany Lions 50-17 over the three game weekend series.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Pearland, Ferraro is now hitting .471 on the season with an impressive on-base percentage of .608.<\/p>\n<p>After going 2-for-4 with a home run and two runs scored in the Red Raiders 15-7 win over Penn State on Friday, Ferraro went 2-for-2 and reached base in all four trips to the plate in Saturday&#8217;s 21-6 run-rule win.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Ferraro one-upped his 2-for-2 day, going 3-for-3 with two walks to close the weekend on an 11-plate appearance reached base streak, the longest in Big 12 play since Ivan Melendez reached base in 13-straight trips to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Ferraro is the second Red Raider to earn the league&#8217;s Newcomer of the Week award, as SS Linkin Garica was the Feb. 23 recipient of the award. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winners of 10-of-11 overall, the Red Raiders close a 15-game homestand this week when they welcome No. 24 UTSA for a two-game midweek series (Tuesday and Wednesday) and face Kansas on the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVING, Texas \u2013 After hitting 7-for-9 with three doubles, a home run and five RBIs, Texas Tech outfielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-199144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}