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LSUDad Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 More: 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted June 14, 2023 Share Posted June 14, 2023 LSU first basemen/DH Jared Jones named to All-Freshmen team By TigerBait Staff June 13, 2023 609 Tweet Share (275) 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted June 18, 2023 Share Posted June 18, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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