Florida Gators

2018 All-SEC Second Team
2017 & 2018 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2017 Honorable Mention All-American (Perfect Game)
2016 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
 
AS A JUNIOR (2018): Ended his career with 25 wins, tied for seventh in Florida history…Had a career win percentage of .806 (25-6), third-best in school history…His 243 career strikeouts rank 10th all-time…Finished his final season with a 10-5 record and 3.04 earned run average over a team-high 18 starts…His 10 wins tied for 10th nationally and third in the SEC…Final ERA of 3.04 ranked seventh in the SEC…Led the team with 115 strikeouts, fourth-most in the SEC…Earned Second Team All-SEC Honors after going 6-3 with a 3.43 ERA in 10 league starts; six wins tied for the most in league play…In 18 total starts, he notched 13 quality starts of at least six innings with three or less earned runs allowed…Posted a 2.29 ERA in the NCAA Tournament with 24 strikeouts and six walks…Led the team with a 2.17 ERA in 10 starts against ranked opponents, limiting them to a .216 batting average against…Had perhaps the best start of his career in his last outing, going 6.2 shutout innings against Texas in the 2018 College World Series with only five hits allowed and a career-high 13 strikeouts; the 13 strikeouts set a record for strikeouts by a UF pitcher in the CWS and were the most by any pitcher since the CWS moved to TD Ameritrade Park in 2011; he was also the first pitcher in the last 40 years to strike out 13 in less than seven innings in a CWS game…In his penultimate start, he limited Auburn to three hits and one run in the Super Regional but did not qualify for a decision…Limited Texas A&M to just one hit over six innings on May 5 in College Station…Went seven shutout innings at Kentucky on April 20…Selected No. 33 overall by the Kansas City Royals in the 2018 MLB Draft.
 
AS A SOPHOMORE (2017): Moved into the weekend starting rotation and finished the year tied for the best single-season record in school history with a 12-1 record (.923 win percentage)…His 12 wins led the SEC and ranked second in the country…Had a perfect 12-0 record until losing to TCU in his final start of the year at the College World Series…Posted a 4.08 earned run average over 18 starts while also making one appearance out of the bullpen…In Game 2 of the CWS Finals against LSU, he made his first relief appearance of the season and pitched 1.2 scoreless innings to earn his first career save and clinch the first national title in UF history…In his lone start at the CWS, he set a career high with 11 strikeouts against TCU…Set a new career high three times with 7.0 innings pitched against Columbia, at Georgia and vs. Mississippi State…Had an impressive 0.7 flyout-groundout ratio on the season (89 flyouts, 126 groundouts) and had a team leading 12 double plays turned while he was on the mound.
 
AS FRESHMAN (2016): Appeared in 12 games, starting 6…Pitched to a 3-0 record with an ERA of 3.37…Gave up 15 runs (13 earned) on 34 hits and 10 walks with 44 strikeouts in 34.2 innings of work…Held opponents to a .257 batting average against, which ranked second among all UF freshman pitchers…Established himself as a regular starter for midweek games…Picked up his first career win against UCF on March 2, throwing 5 shutout innings with 8 K’s, a career high…Defeated rival Florida State on March 29 by tossing 5 innings of one-run ball…Named to the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: Right-handed pitcher from the Charlotte Christian School who played for head coach Greg Simmons…Taken in the 40th round of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft by the Detroit Tigers with the 1,210th pick…Ranked No. 4 in the state of North Carolina and as the No. 1 right-hander by Perfect Game...Ranked No. 99 on Baseball America’s prospect list for the MLB Draft…Finished 10-1 with a school-record 0.20 earned run average and totaled 118 strikeouts in 71 innings…Fired a three-hitter with 14 strikeouts as Charlotte Christian posted a 7-0 shutout of Wesleyan Christian Academy to win its fifth-straight NCISAA 3A state title last year…Tossed a one-hit shutout and had eight strikeouts in the state semifinals against High Point Christian Academy…Was a first-team High School All-American by Baseball America…Member of the Second-Team All-USA Today North Carolina Baseball Team…Was all-state, All-Charlotte Observer and all-conference both his junior and senior years…Honored as the 2015 South Charlotte Weekly Baseball Player of the Year…Was named as a Honorable Mention All-American and as a Rawlings/Perfect Game Preseason Atlantic All-Region First Team prior to his senior year…Went 10-1 with a 0.79 ERA as a junior, with a school-record 131 strikeouts…Threw a four-hit shutout with nine strikeouts against nationally-ranked Providence…Was a 2014 Perfect Game Underclass Third-Team All-American and a 2013 Perfect Game Underclass Honorable Mention All-American.
 
 

Year	ERA	W	L	App	GS	CG	SHO	CBO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	2B	3B	HR	BF	B/Avg	WP	HBP	BK	SFA	SHA
2016	3.37	3	0	12	6	0	0	2	0	34.2	34	15	13	10	44	7	1	5	152	.254	5	7	0	0	1
2017	4.08	12	1	19	18	0	0	0	1	108.0	116	59	49	44	84	24	4	7	481	.278	10	13	3	2	4
2018	3.04	10	5	18	18	0	0	1	0	112.1	101	47	38	43	115	14	0	10	483	.239	7	9	1	3	5
TOTAL	3.53	25	6	49	42	0	0	3	1	255.0	251	121	100	97	243	45	5	22	1116	.257	22	29	4	5	10

 
 
SINGLE-GAME HIGHS:
Innings pitched: 7.0, 9 times
Walks allowed: 6, at Alabama, May 14, 2017
Strikeouts: 13, vs Texas, June 19, 2018
Batters faced: 34, vs FAU, June 4, 2018
Field chances: 5, vs Auburn, June 10, 2018
Putouts: 2, Missouri, April 14, 2018; vs Auburn, June 10, 2018
Assists: 4, Seton Hall, March 11, 2017
Runners CS: 2, Georgia, May 12, 2018