FHSU Athletics

Baseball, 1994-95
A native of Sharon, Kansas, Daniel Traffas was a pitcher at Fort Hays State for two seasons. He was the 1995 Mile High Intercollegiate Baseball League Pitcher of the Year as a senior, posting an 8-3 record with a 2.47 ERA. He made 12 starts that season and threw eight complete games. Three of those complete games were shutouts, with the last coming in the Mile High Intercollegiate Baseball League Tournament championship game that the Tigers won 4-0 over Mesa State at Larks Park to end a 34-13 season. Traffas struck out 65 batters in 76.2 innings of work and held opponents to a .213 batting average for the season. Traffas finished with a career record of 14-4 overall, which included a 6-1 campaign his junior year when he had 61 strikeouts in 52.1 innings of work and a 3.44 ERA. His .777 career win percentage at FHSU is still among the Top 10 in program history and his eight complete games in 1995 is tied for the most by a Tiger pitcher in a season since 1980. Traffas ranks seventh in career strikeouts per innings pitched rate (0.98). His 2.86 career ERA is ninth in program history, but best for the program since 1980.