Ben Rice
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- Position:
- Player
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- Year:
- 2025
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- Team:
- Worcester Bravehearts
Bio
The 2020 Futures League Most Valuable Player who spent two years with the Worcester Bravehearts, Rice hit .369 with 16 home runs – which are tied for the fifth-most in league history – and 51 RBI across 73 career games en route to consecutive first-team All-Futures League nods in 2019 and 2020. His 13 RBI in postseason contests rank second all-time. Rice initially joined Worcester amid a 2019 championship run the summer after his freshman year at Dartmouth, posting a team-best .392 average in 27 games before hitting a clutch three-run homer in the deciding title game against the Bristol Blues. The Cohasset, Mass., native was the standout among standouts during the league’s talent-rich COVID summer of 2020, hitting .398 with a league-leading 11 homers, 84 total bases and .683 slugging percentage. He led the regular-season champion Bravehearts with 27 RBI and 43 total hits. With his career at Dartmouth College cut to only 30 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rice’s performance in the Futures League proved to be a launching pad in his career and led to the New York Yankees drafting him in the 12th round in 2021. He hit 26 home runs during his second MLB season with the Yankees in 2025.