Honors and Awards
- 2023: ABCA Second Team All-American
- 2023: ABCA First Team All-West Region
- 2023: Collegiate Baseball Second Team All-American
- 2023: Pac-12 All-Conference
- 2023: Dick Howser Trophy Semifinalist
- 2023: Pac-12 Player of the Week (3/13)
2023 MLB Draft
Selected by the New York Yankees in the seventh round of the 2023 Major League Baseball Draft.
Arizona 2023 (Junior)
Rewrote the Arizona record books in his one season with the Wildcats...Started all 59 games at first base...Set the Arizona single-season RBI record with 89, breaking a nearly 50-year-old record last set by Ron Hassey (86) in 1974...Picked up a pair of Second Team All-America nods from the ABCA and
Collegiate Baseball...Also named to Pac-12 All-Conference team and ABCA First Team All-West Region squad...Earned semifinalist distinction for the Dick Howser Trophy...Led the Pac-12 and ranked sixth nationally in RBI; also ranked fifth in the nation with 1.51 RBI/game...Hit .345 with 60 runs scored, 17 doubles, four triples, 21 home runs, 89 RBI, and a .724 slugging percentage...Drew 36 walks, second most on the team, to post a .441 on-base percentage...Even with teammate Chase Davis for the team and Pac-12 lead with 21 home runs, tied for the third most in a single season by a Wildcat...One of six Wildcats to notch double-digit home runs, believed to be a program record...Posted one of the greatest slugging seasons in program history, ending the year with single-season Top 10 marks in RBI (89, 1st), extra-base hits (42, 3rd) home runs (21, t-3rd), home run ratio (11.05, 4th), total bases (168, t-4th), and slugging percentage (.724, 7th)...Collected multiple hits in 25 games and led the team with 24 multi-RBI performances, the latter of which was the most by a Wildcat since 2005...Strung together a 15-game on-base streak and finished the year reaching base safely in each of his last seven games...Drove in a season-high six RBI three times: March 10 against California (4x4, 5 R, 3B, 2 HR, 6 RBI), May 5 against Air Force (4x5, 4 R, 2B, HR, 6 RBI), and May 14 at Stanford (2x6, 2 R, HR, 6 RBI)...Voted as the Pac-12 Player of the Week on March 13 after hitting .647 (11x17) with eight runs, one double, one triple, three home runs, and 10 RBI during a 4-0 week that included a sweep of California...Dominated Pac-12 pitching, posting a .319 batting average with 28 runs, six doubles, one triple, 10 home runs, and 43 RBI across 30 starts...Led the team in home runs and RBI during conference play...Finished Arizona career with a .724 slugging percentage, the best mark in program history (min. 200 AB)...Started all 59 games at first base and posted a sparkling .995 fielding percentage...Committed only three errors on a team-leading 557 total chances.
POSTSEASON: Started all six postseason games and notched an impressive .333 batting average...Collected six runs, four home runs, and nine RBI during postseason run...Walked off Oregon State with a ninth inning RBI single in the Wildcats second game at the Pac-12 Tournament, securing Arizona a spot in the semifinals...Hit safely in 3-of-6 postseason games; drove in runs in 4-of-6 postseason contests...Broke Arizona single-season RBI record with three RBI against TCU in the opener of the NCAA Fayetteville Regional.
Before Arizona
Played three seasons at Central Arizona College (2019-22)…Saw time in 156 games and hit .346 with 182 runs scored, 41 doubles, 15 triples, 36 home runs, 167 RBI, a .674 slugging percentage, and a .473 on-base percentage…As a junior in 2022, hit .366 with 95 runs, 22 doubles, five triples, 25 home runs, and 84 RBI while leading Vaqueros to NJCAA World Series Championship…Named 2022 NJCAA World Series MVP and Outstanding Hitter after tying tournament record with six home runs…Prepped at Canyon Del Oro High School in Tucson and lettered three years in baseball under head coach Jason Hisey…2017 and 2018
Perfect Game Preseason Underclass All-American…2019
Perfect Game Preseason All-American and All-Region…Also lettered one year in golf.
Personal
Enrique Teyechea Romero…Son of Daman and Ana Romero…Two brothers, DJ and Alex…One sister, AnaMaria…Enjoys golfing, fishing, hunting, and team roping in his free time…Majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in Sports and Society...Chose Arizona because, “It is my hometown school and the coaches are very knowledgeable. Coach Hale is an excellent instructor and he is a big reason for my commitment.”
