KEENE, N.H. (MyKeeneNow) – An alumni of the Keene SwampBats made his Major League Baseball debut this week.

Will Wagner is a graduate of Liberty University and was part of the SwampBats during their championship 2019 season. He became the 36th Bat to make it to the MLB Monday night.

According to the New England Collegiate Baseball League’s archives, Wagner finished the 2019 NECBL regular season and play offs with a .324 average, 7 homeruns, and 34 RBI’s. He was among the top hitters for the Bats.

“We are proud to call Will Wagner a SwampBat,” SwampBats President Kevin Waterson said in a statement. “There was never any doubt that Will was destined for great things in his baseball career.”

Wagner was drafted by the Houston Astros in 2021, then acquired by the Toronto Blue Jays as part of a trade on July 29th, his 26th birthday, that sent pitcher Yusei Kikuchi to the Astros, according to the Associated Press.

Wagner, the son of seven-time All Star and former left-handed pitcher Billy Wagner, was a call-up from Triple-A Buffalo and played second base against the Los Angeles Angels Monday night. He batted sixth and smacked the very first pitch he saw to the right-center gap, landing a second inning double. He ended the night 3 for 4 with an RBI and a run, becoming the fourth player in Blue Jays history to have three hits in his major league debut.

“The first pitch he saw, in his first At Bat, he doubled!!! You can’t make that up,” Waterson said in an email. “Story Book. Oh, and he ended up with three hits that night. Crazy.”

The New Hampshire Fisher Cats, based out of Manchester, are Toronto’s Double-A affiliate.