he gaudy offensive statistics that Marcos Torres posted as a member of the Felician College baseball team are made more impressive by two factors -- he was a full-time catcher, and he played three of his four seasons during the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference’s wood-bat era.
Asked to replace one of the program’s greatest players behind the plate in fellow Hall-of-Famer Mike Rooth, Torres was inserted into the lineup almost immediately as a freshman from South Miami High School. A late-season surge left him with a .301 batting average and Golden Falcon fans with a sign of things to come.
For the rest of his career, Torres caught better than 80% of his team’s games, routinely playing both ends of doubleheaders as the backstop. He moved into the middle of the lineup and delivered offensively as well, hitting .365 with three home runs and 39 runs batted in as a sophomore in 2008, and .335 with four homers and 36 RBI the next year. He was a First-Team All-CACC selection following both seasons, and a 2009 Second Team Daktronics All-East Region choice.
Late in his senior campaign, Torres broke Felician’s all-time hits record. The mark, ironically, had been held by Rooth. A dozen years later, Torres’ 214 hits still rank fifth on the school list. He is also among the top ten in RBI (156, T-4th), home runs (12, T-6th), walks (75, T-6th), doubles (44, 7th), and games played (186, ninth).
A three-time All-CACC honoree and a career .331 hitter, Torres graduated from Felician in 2010 with a B.S. degree in marketing/management. Later in 2010 he signed as a free agent with the Tampa Bay Rays and played one season in the Rays’ organization.
Along with fellow 2022 honoree Jerry Vasto, Torres join Rooth, Frank Quintana, Dennis Hulse, Eric Miceli and Mickey Zudonyi as former baseball players in the Felician Athetics Hall of Fame.
Torres lives in his native Miami, Fla., and is a medical device sales consultant for Johson and Johnson Companies. He is married to the former Laura Serrat and they have one son, Lucca, 2.
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