CAREER STATISTICS
ACADEMIC HONORS
Sun Belt Conference Commissioner’s List, 2021-22
Dean's List, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
Athletic Director’s Honor Roll, Spring 2020; Fall 2021; Spring 2021; Fall 2022; Spring 2024
ATHLETIC HONORS
• All-Sun Belt Conference (second team), 2024
• Freshman All-America (Collegiate Baseball), 2020
AT GEORGIA STATE: Five-year letterwinner as a third baseman from 2020-24 ... All-Sun Belt Conference selection and one of the most prolific offensive players in program history ... Career batting average of .313 with 34 homers, 51 doubles, 164 RBI and 139 runs scored ... Finished tied for seventh in GSU history in homers, fourth in hits, sixth in doubles, third in total bases, fifth in RBI, sixth in runs scored and fourth in games played (220, including 199 starts) ... Over his last two seasons, he hit .327 with 26 homers and 109 RBI ... Became the 13th player in GSU annals with at least 200 hits, 100 RBI and 100 runs scored. who has also started at shortstop and second base and played some first base ... Started games at shortstop and second base earlier in his career ... Freshman All-America in 2020.
2024: Second-team All-Sun Belt Conference ... Led Georgia State in batting average (.344), home runs (17), RBI (60), runs scored (57) and doubles (17) ... Collected 86 hits, including 36 extra base hits ... His 17 homers are the sixth-highest season total in school history ... Also ranks on GSU season lists for hits (86, fourth), total bases (157, second) and RBI (60, 10th) while setting the school record with 250 at-bats ... Had 10 homers, 11 doubles and 41 RBI in Sun Belt games.
Had a 21-game hitting streak late in the season, one shy of the school record of 22; during the streak, he hit .417 and slugged .813 with eight homers, 12 doubles, a triple and 28 RBI ... Collected 27 multi-hit games, including four four-hit efforts ... Huge series at Coastal Carolina when he went 8-for-18 with three homers and two doubles. Hit go-ahead homer in eighth inning to help GSU to a 10-9 win in Game 2 ... Hit game-tying 2-run homer in the top of the ninth in win at Mercer, when he was 4-for-5 ... Hit two homers and drove in a career-high six runs in win at Western Carolina, part of a doubleheader in which he was 5-for-9 with three homers and seven RBI ... Drove in three runs each in back-to-back wins over Southern Miss.
2023: Starting third baseman who was second on the team with 49 RBI while hitting .308 with nine home runs ... Delivered numerous key hits throughout the season, including driving in the winning run in 10th inning at Old Dominion in the game that clinched GSU’s berth in the Sun Belt tourney ... Had three hits in win over Georgia Tech, including game-tying, RBI-single in bottom of the ninth ... Homered and drove in four runs in 9-7 win at Georgia ... Hit a 3-run homer in the 6th to spark 14-8 win over Kennesaw State ... Had a 2-run, game-tying double in the ninth inning at Mercer ... Drove in five runs in the first two innings at App State with a 2-run homer and a 3-run double ... Hit a solo homer for the go-ahead run in fourth inning of sweep-clinching, 5-1 win over Marshall ... Hit game-tying homer in top of eighth at Texas State.
2022: Played in 37 games, including 18 starts, primarily at third base ... Hit .236 with three doubles, one triple, two homers and 13 RBI ... Had two doubles and five RBI in Opening Weekend sweep of Purdue Fort Wayne ... Went 3-for-4 with a solo homer and four runs scored in Sunday win vs. Little Rock ... In Sunday win vs. South Alabama, he drove in the tying run in the sixth inning and then homered in the eighth ... Had an RBI-triple vs. Louisiana.
2021: Hit .290 with five homers, a team-leading 13 doubles and 25 RBI ... Primarily the starting shortstop but moved third base late in the season, starting the final eight games there.
Doubled and homered in GSU’s 11-run first inning vs. Mo. 14 West Virginia, en route to a 20-4 win ... Homered, doubled and drove in three in 10-1 victory at No. 10 Georgia Tech ... Hit a 2-run homer vs. Kennesaw State ... Doubled home the go-ahead run in the seventh inning in series-clinching, 3-2 win over Georgia Southern ... Homered in back-to-back games against Coastal Carolina, including a solo shot in GSU’s 2-1 victory..
2020: Named to the Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America team ... Started every game at shortstop ... Led the Panthers and ranked fifth in the Sun Belt with 17 RBI ... Hit .373, second on the team and No. 10 in the Sun Belt Conference ... Led all Sun Belt freshmen in RBI and ranked second in batting average ... Only seven freshmen in the nation had more RBI... Led the team with seven multi-hit games ... Finished the season with an 11-game hitting streak.
Went 7-for-17 with a homer and eight RBI in a four-game stretch vs. Western Carolina and ETSU ... Hit his first homer at ETSU ... Drove in the tying run in the eighth inning and the go-ahead run in the 10th in 10-9 victory at Western Carolina. Also had an RBI-single in the fifth inning... Went 4-for-6 with four RBI to lead a 7-4 victory over Bryant ... Drew a bases-loaded walk for the tying run in the bottom of the ninth vs. North Alabama, allowing the Panthers to win on a walk-off one batter later.
HIGH SCHOOL: First-team all-state by Georgia Dugout Preview … First-team All-Gwinnett County as a senior at Brookwood High School, when he hit .460 with 27 RBI, 33 runs scored, 15 extra-base hits and a 1.174 OPS … Rated the No. 7 shortstop and No. 48 overall player in Georgia by Perfect Game … Named to Perfect Game’s 2018 Preseason Underclass All-America team (honorable mention) and 2019 All-America team (Southeast Region honorable mention) … Helped Brookwood to the Class AAAAAAA state semifinals in Georgia’s largest classification in 2018 as well as the quarterfinals in 2017 and the final 16 in 2019.
PERSONAL: Full name is Joseph William Mize III … Born Nov. 26, 2000 … Parents are Rebecca and Joseph Mize Jr. … Related to baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize ... Plans to major in exercise science.
