Jacob Walsh isn’t interested in reveling in his accomplishments.

The Oregon Ducks’ home run king is all business.

“We’re in the middle of a season,” Walsh said matter-of-factly when asked about setting the Oregon baseball home run record earlier this season. “So, it’s a cool Twitter post or whatever, but we’re just trying to win ballgames. Maybe looking back on it I’ll be able to enjoy whatever comes with it, but at the end of the day we’re just trying to win a conference and make a regional.”

Walsh’s 39 career home runs are the school record by a healthy margin. He passed Tanner Smith’s previous record of 31 with a solo bomb against UCLA on April 7. And Walsh reached the mountaintop in two fewer seasons. The hulking first baseman is batting .277 this season, slugging .606, and has 17 homers with 50 RBIs.

The Ducks wrap up their regular-season schedule this weekend with a three-game series against Washington State.

The biggest games stand above all other memories at Oregon for Walsh, who is finishing up his third and potentially final season with the Ducks, depending on an MLB decision to come after the postseason wraps.

Walsh is rated the 232nd best overall prospect for the 2024 draft, and 16th best first baseman, according to Perfect Game.

“Playoffs are always the end goal, and we’ve been blessed enough to make a regional my two tries so far. Looking to make one this year,” Walsh said. “Winning that Nashville Regional and playing a super regional here, winning a Pac-12 championship, those are the memories that stand out to me.”

Walsh, who grew up in Las Vegas, is the son of a former college football player at UNLV. He played football growing up, too, primarily as a tight end and defensive end up through high school.

But baseball was always the calling, and his workmanlike approach is something that eventually led him to Oregon and is among the first things people around the program will now bring up.

From playing travel ball year-round in the sunny Las Vegas weather to stamping his name in the Oregon history books, Walsh said his day-to-day approach has largely been the same. And he looks to a fellow Las Vegas product as an example of consistency.

“Being a Vegas guy, obviously Bryce Harper has always been talk of the town,” Walsh said. “If you can map out a career, it would be doing it the way he did it. I’ve always looked up to him. He’s just been able to be really consistent at a high level for a really long time, and he kept his head: 17-year-old, all-world everything, and he just stayed consistent.”

Whether or not Walsh’s decorated career with the Ducks ends this season, as the team pursues yet another deep postseason run, remains to be seen. Walsh said the friendships he made in Eugene will last.

“I’ve grown so much as a person and a player being around this program,” Walsh said. “I’ve made a ton of lifelong friends.”