SEC player of the year and Pitcher of the Year

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HOOVER, Ala. – Four LSU baseball players received All-Southeastern Conference recognition Monday in a vote of the league’s 14 head coaches.

Centerfielder Dylan Crews was named SEC Player of the Year, First-Team All-SEC and SEC All-Defensive Team; right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes was named SEC Pitcher of the Year and First-Team All-SEC; third baseman Tommy White was voted First-Team All-SEC; and first baseman Jared Jones received Freshman All-SEC honors.

 

Crews, a junior from Longwood, Fla., leads the SEC and is ranked seventh nationally with a .423 batting average. He has 14 home runs, 13 doubles and 57 RBI, and he is also the league-leader in on-base percentage (.573), runs scored (79) and walks (56).

Crews is No. 2 in the nation in on-base percentage, No. 2 in runs scored and No. 3 in walks. He has a reached base streak of 59 games, which includes all 55 games of this season and the last four games of the 2022 season.

Skenes, a junior from Lake Forest, Calif., leads the SEC in wins (10), strikeouts (164), earned run average (1.77), innings pitched (86.2) and opponent batting average (.161).  He is ranked No. 2 on LSU’s all-time single-season strikeouts list, trailing only Ben McDonald, who recorded 202 strikeouts in 1989.

Skenes is No. 1 in the nation in strikeouts, strikeouts per nine innings (17.03), WHIP (0.75) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (10.93). Skenes is No. 3 nationally in hits allowed per nine innings (5.19), and he is No. 4 in ERA.

White, a sophomore from St. Pete Beach, Fla., has 89 RBI this season, already the sixth-highest single-season total in LSU history. He is No. 2 in the nation in RBI per game (1.75), No. 2 in total RBI and No. 11 in slugging percentage (.793).

White is hitting .389 on the year, and he leads LSU in doubles (22) and home runs (20). He is No. 1 in the SEC in RBI, No. 2 in doubles, No. 3 in total bases (161), No. 4 in batting average, No. 4 in slugging percentage, No. 5 in hits (79) and No. 7 in homers.

Jones, a product of Marietta, Ga., is hitting .307 this season with 11 doubles, 14 home runs and 45 RBI. He is second on the LSU squad in homers, third in RBI and fourth in doubles as a true freshman.

 

2023 SEC Baseball Awards

 

Player of the Year: Dylan Crews, LSU

Pitcher of the Year: Paul Skenes, LSU
 

 

First Team All-SEC

Cole Messina, South Carolina

1B: Jac Caglianone, Florida

2B: Cade Kurland, Florida

3B: Tommy White, LSU

SS: Josh Rivera, Florida

OF: Dylan Crews, LSU

OF: Wyatt Langford, Florida

OF: Ethan Petry, South Carolina

SP: Paul Skenes, LSU

SP: Hagen Smith, Arkansas

RP: Brandon Neely, Florida

DH/UT: Hunter Hines, Mississippi State

 

Second Team All-SEC

Calvin Harris, Ole Miss

1B: Charlie Condon, Georgia

2B: Emilien Pitre, Kentucky

3B: Luke Mann, Missouri*

3B: Bryson Ware, Auburn*

SS: Jacob Gonzalez, Ole Miss

OF: Kemp Alderman, Ole Miss

OF: Enrique Bradfield Jr., Vanderbilt

OF: Andrew Pinckney, Alabama*

OF: Jared Dickey, Tennessee*

SP: Devin Futrell, Vanderbilt

SP: Brandon Sproat, Florida

RP: Nick Maldonado, Vanderbilt

DH/UT: Kendall Diggs, Arkansas

 

Freshman All-SEC Team

Charlie Condon, Georgia

Ethan Petry, South Carolina

Ike Irish, Auburn

Cade Kurland, Florida

Colby Shelton, Alabama

Jared Jones, LSU

Jace LaViolette, Texas A&M

Alton Davis II, Alabama

Dakota Jordan, Mississippi State

Gage Wood, Arkansas

RJ Austin, Vanderbilt

Luke Heyman, Florida

 

SEC All-Defensive Team

Fernando Gonzalez, Georgia

1B: Drew Williamson, Alabama*

1B: Hunter Gilliam, Kentucky*

2B: Emilien Pitre, Kentucky

3B: Davis Diaz, Vanderbilt

SS: Jim Jarvis, Alabama

OF: Enrique Bradfield, Jr., Vanderbilt

OF: Dylan Crews, LSU

OF: Tavian Josenberger, Arkansas*

OF: Kason Howell, Auburn*

P: Hagen Smith, Arkansas

 

*Ties (Ties are not broken)

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Collegiate Baseball Newspaper released its All-America team on Thursday and 3 LSU players made the cut: pitcher Paul Skenes, outfielder Dylan Crews and 3rd baseman Tommy White.

The team includes 17 of the best players in the country. It has 7 pitchers (3 right-handers, 3 left-handers and 1 reliever) as well as 10 hitters (1 for each of the 8 field positions plus 1 DH and 1 utility player).

LSU is the only team to have 3 All-America honorees on this year’s team. Clemson (2) was the only other program to have multiple All-Americans.

Skenes was also named National Player of the Year by the publication. He’s the first LSU player to win this honor since Lloyd Peever in 1992.

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LSU first basemen/DH Jared Jones named to All-Freshmen team

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June 13, 2023

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BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU first baseman/designated hitter Jared Jones has received Second-Team Freshman All-America recognition from the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

Jones, a product of Marietta, Ga., is hitting .304 this season with 12 doubles, 14 homers, 45 RBI and 37 runs scored. He is fourth on the LSU club in homers and fifth in RBI.

Jones, who was named last month to the 2023 Freshman All-SEC team by the league’s head coaches, homered twice and drove in five runs in LSU’s series sweep over Alabama (April 28-30).

He batted .500 (7-for-14) in a four-game week vs. Tulane (April 11) and Kentucky (April 13-15) with three doubles, two homers, five RBI and six runs. In LSU’s SEC series win over Kentucky, Jones hit .400 (4-for-10) with two homers, five RBI and five runs.

Jones batted .600 (6-for-10) the week of March 28-April 1 with one double, one homer, one RBI and five runs scored. He was 3-for-5 with a double and two runs on April 1 vs. Tennessee

He hit .462 (6-for-13) in the Texas A&M series (March 17-19) with one homer, eight RBI and one run. Jones led the Tigers to the series-clinching victory on March 18 by going 4-for-5 at the plate with a three-run homer and a pair of two-run singles for a total of seven RBI.

Jones was named SEC Co-Freshman of the Week on March 13 after he batted .600 (6-for-10) from March 6-12 with four homers, 11 RBI and five runs. He homered four times in four consecutive plate appearances over the course of the Tigers’ games versus Samford.

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LSU'S DYLAN CREWS WINS 2023

BOBBY BRAGAN NATIONAL

COLLEGIATE SLUGGER AWARD

LSU'S DYLAN CREWS WINS 2023 BOBBY

BRAGAN NATIONAL COLLEGIATE SLUGGER

AWARD

FORT WORTH, Texas - The Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger Award (BBCSA) presented by SR

Bats has announced that Dylan Crews from LSU has won the 2023 award as the nation's top college baseball hitter. Crews will be honored at a gala in the fall in Fort Worth.

The BBNCSA, created by the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation, was open to nominations from all Division I baseball programs in the country. The award is based on performance at the plate, academics, and personal integrity.

Crews, a junior from Longwood, Florida, has a .434 batting average (3rd in the nation) with 17 home runs and 67 RBI in leading LSU to a College World Series berth. In addition, the LSU outfielder's overall game has made him a strong candidate to be the No. 1 pick in the upcoming MLB Draft after being named the SEC

Player of the Year this season.

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FYI: 

 

Award. The 45th Gold Spikes Award will identify the top amateur baseball player in the nation. The award will be presented on June 25 at 2:30 P.M. during the College World Series finals.