Travis Wade Swaggerty Jr. is a professional baseball outfielder who plays for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Swaggerty was a member of the baseball team of Denham Springs High School in Denham Springs, Louisiana.
He batted .451 as a senior and was chosen to the Class 5A All-State team by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
He was not taken in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft and went on to play college baseball at the University of South Alabama.
Swaggerty competed in 59 games for South Alabama as a freshman in 2016, hitting.303 with four home runs, 27 RBIs, 12 doubles, and 20 stolen bases.
He appeared in and started 58 games as a sophomore, slashing .356/.484/.571 with 11 home runs, 60 RBIs, and 19 stolen bases. After the season, he was named to the First Team All-Sun Belt.
Swaggerty batted .328/.449/.406 in 19 games for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team that summer, and he also played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
Prior to his junior season, he was selected a first-team preseason All-American by Baseball America, D1 Baseball.com, and Perfect Game, as well as the 2018 Sun Belt Preseason Player of the Year.
Over the course of 57 games, he batted .296 with 13 home runs, 38 RBIs, and a .455 on-base percentage. For the second year in a row, he was chosen to the All-Sun Belt First Team.
Does Travis Swaggerty Have Kids?
Travis Swaggerty and his wife Peyton Swaggerty have a baby girl called Sutton Hollie