2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team
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Conference | Southeastern Conference |
Division | West |
Record | 40–24 (16–14 SEC) |
Head coach |
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Hitting coach | Lane Burroughs (4th season) |
Pitching coach | Butch Thompson (4th season) |
Home stadium | Dudy Noble Field |
Seasons |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eastern | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 2 South Carolina xy | 18 | – | 11 | .621 | 49 | – | 20 | .710 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 6 Florida y | 18 | – | 12 | .600 | 47 | – | 20 | .701 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 19 Kentucky y | 18 | – | 12 | .600 | 45 | – | 18 | .714 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 25 Vanderbilt y | 16 | – | 14 | .533 | 35 | – | 28 | .556 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Georgia | 14 | – | 15 | .483 | 31 | – | 26 | .544 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tennessee | 8 | – | 22 | .267 | 24 | – | 31 | .436 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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No. 11 LSU x†y | 19 | – | 11 | .633 | 47 | – | 18 | .723 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 3 Arkansas y | 16 | – | 14 | .533 | 46 | – | 22 | .676 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mississippi State ‡y | 16 | – | 14 | .533 | 40 | – | 24 | .625 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ole Miss y | 14 | – | 16 | .467 | 37 | – | 26 | .587 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Auburn | 13 | – | 17 | .433 | 31 | – | 28 | .525 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alabama | 9 | – | 21 | .300 | 21 | – | 34 | .382 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 26, 2012[1] Rankings from Coaches' Poll |
The 2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team represented Mississippi State University in the NCAA Division I baseball season of 2012. The team was coached by John Cohen, in his 13th year as a collegiate head coach, and his 4th at Mississippi State.
Mississippi State wins the 2012 SEC Tournament championship winning a school record 5 games against 1 loss,[2] is then eliminated in the NCAA tournament in the Tallahassee Regional, and finishes ranked in some polls.
Pre-season
The 2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs Baseball team was looking to continue rebuilding after the 2011 MSU Baseball team had a winning record and returned to the NCAA tournament, both for the first time in 4 years. The 2012 MSU baseball team welcomes a recruiting class ranked 14th by Baseball America, which is the third consecutive top 20 ranked recruiting class.[3]
The SEC coaches pick this team to finish 5th in the West division.[4] The team is not ranked in the top 25 in any of the four major preseason polls. The team went on to finish tied for 2nd in the SEC West, to win the SEC Tournament and at one point is ranked as high as 14th.
Senior RHP Caleb Reed is selected 1st team NCBWA Preseason All-American.[5] Reed is also selected 1st team SEC Preseason All-Conference by College Sports Madness, while sophomore OF C.T. Bradford, and sophomore SS Adam Frazier are selected 2nd team.[6]
Regular season
Going 4–0 to open the season, they were ranked 18th on February 27, 2012, by Perfect Game.[7] They will end the regular season ranked as high as 21st (See Ranking Movements below).
Mississippi State entered the final series of the regular season at 31–21, 13–14 in conference play. In that final series, they swept, at that time, #2 Kentucky, at home, in Starkville, to finish the regular season 34–21, 16–14.[8] For the regular season, they won all five conference series at home, including a sweep of Tennessee in addition to Kentucky, and lost all five series on the road, including being swept by South Carolina.
Games Schedule, results, and box scores can be found at the reference.[9]
SEC Tournament
In the SEC tournament, with all rankings according to the final Coaches' Poll, Mississippi State beat #3 Arkansas then #11 LSU, before losing to #19 Kentucky; they then beat #11 LSU, again, #19 Kentucky, winning the rematch, and #25 Vanderbilt to win the SEC Tournament championship.[10] SS Adam Frazier is the Tournament MVP. Frazier, OF Demarcus Henderson, and P Jonathan Holder make the All-Tournament team.[11] Frazier, in 6 games, hits 0.522 with one double, has an OBP of 0.560, scores 4 runs, has 3 rbi, and successfully hits a sacrifice bunt.[12] Holder, in 4 games, has 3 saves and 1 win, giving up 0 runs.[13]
In the championship game Mississippi State beats Vanderbilt, shutting them out 3–0. Pitchers Brandon Woodruff, Ross Mitchell, Caleb Reed, and Chris Stratton combine for the shutout.
After, going 5–1 in, and winning the SEC Tournament, at 39–22 overall, they are ranked as high as 14th by Baseball America.[14]
NCAA tournament
In the NCAA tournament, Mississippi State is regionally seeded 2nd, in the Tallahassee Regional. They lose in an upset to 3rd seed Samford, then win to eliminate 4th seed UAB, and then lose to be eliminated by 3rd seed Samford. In the losing effort, four Mississippi State players make the 11 man, Regional All-Tournament team, Matthew Britton (FR 2B), Adam Frazier (SO SS), Wes Rea (FR 1B), and Mitch Slauter (JR C).[15]
After the post season ends, going 1–2 in the NCAA tournament, they are ranked as high as 22nd by Baseball America.[16]
Season Awards
RHP Kendall Graveman is the first Mississippi State player to be named to this team, since the conference started this all-defensive team in 2008.[17] He only committed 1 error in 89.2 innings pitched.[18]
- SEC Coaches' All-Defensive Team.[19]
RHP Jonathan Holder saw limited action as a true freshman, in 2012. He did lose the game, in relief, to eliminate Mississippi State from the NCAA tournament. But at one point, he set a school record scoreless streak at 27.1 innings, which was his entire start to the season. Overall, he had an ERA of 0.32, 30 strikeouts, and 5 base-on-balls, in 28.1 innings. The only runs given up were 2 runs, 1 earned, in 1.0 inning pitched, in the NCAA Regional elimination game. Overall, he went 2–1 with 9 saves. In the last 11 games, in which he appeared, he had 8 saves and went 1–1.[20][21]
- SEC Coaches' All-Freshman Team.[22]
- NCBWA Freshman All-American Team.[23]
- Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American.[24]
- Baseball America's Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-American Team.[25]
- Perfect Game Freshman All-American.[26]
RHP Chris Stratton went 11–2 with a 2.38 ERA with 127 strikeouts and 25 base-on-balls in 109.2 innings.[27] He was the first Consensus All-American for Mississippi State since Will Clark in 1985.[28]
- C Spire Ferris Trophy for the best college baseball player in the state of Mississippi.[29]
- Southeastern Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Year.[30]
- Consensus All-American.
- American Baseball Coaches Association All-American
- Baseball America All-American
- Collegiate Baseball All-American
- National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association All-American
MLB Draft
Player | Position | Round | Overall | MLB Team |
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Chris Stratton | RHP | 1 | 20 | San Francisco Giants |
Nick Routt | LHP | 16 | 502 | Cincinnati Reds |
Kendall Graveman | RHP | 36 | 1097 | Miami Marlins |
[31] NOTE: Kendall Graveman will not sign, finishes his senior year at Mississippi State and then goes in the 8th round the next year.[32]
Ranking movements
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Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Final |
Coaches' | * | 25 | 22 | ||||||||||||||||
Baseball America | 23 | 21 | 25 | 24 | 14 | 22 | 22 | 22 | |||||||||||
Collegiate Baseball^ | 29 | 30 | 21 | 17 | 24 | 24 | 24 | ||||||||||||
NCBWA† | 34 | 26 | 21 | 28 | 30 | 30 |
^ Collegiate Baseball ranked 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranked 30 teams weekly during the season.
† NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season.
* A new poll was not released for this week, so for comparison purposes, the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.
Notes: The Coaches' and Baseball America had no rankings for week 16 and 17, June 5 and June 11; the Final rank is used.
Roster and Stats
Coaches
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Name | Title | First Season at MSU | Alma Mater |
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John Cohen | Head coach | 2009 | Mississippi State University (1990) |
Butch Thompson | Associate Head Coach | 2009 | Birmingham Southern (1992) |
Lane Burroughs | Assistant coach | 2009 | Mississippi College (1995) |
Players
# | Player | Pos | B | T | YR | Hometown | AVG% | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SLG% | OB% | SB-SA | FLD% |
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2 | Demarcus Henderson | OF | R | R | FR | Waynesboro, MS | .245 | 36 | 102 | 17 | 25 | 0 | 10 | .275 | .342 | 6–9 | .919 |
3 | Phillip Casey | 2B/3B | L | R | FR | Sugar Land, TX | .206 | 20 | 34 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 7 | .324 | .372 | 1–2 | 1.000 |
5 | Daryl Norris | 3B | R | R | SO | Fairhope, AL | .273 | 45 | 139 | 17 | 38 | 1 | 25 | .353 | .380 | 2–3 | .949 |
7 | Taylor Stark | OF | R | R | SO | Flowood, MS | .245 | 17 | 49 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 4 | .286 | .339 | 2–3 | .917 |
8 | Sam Frost | 2B | L | R | JR | Hoover, AL | .214 | 56 | 140 | 18 | 30 | 0 | 20 | .271 | .319 | 8–11 | .917 |
9 | Tyler Fullerton | OF | R | R | FR | Murfreesboro, TN | .215 | 35 | 93 | 12 | 20 | 0 | 7 | .269 | .318 | 1–2 | .955 |
10 | C.T. Bradford | OF | L | L | SO | Pace, FL | .258 | 34 | 124 | 19 | 32 | 2 | 17 | .339 | .345 | 3–4 | .968 |
12 | Adam Frazier | SS | L | R | SO | Bishop, GA | .371 | 64 | 245 | 45 | 91 | 0 | 26 | .445 | .482 | 9–15 | .957 |
13 | Brayden Jones | 3B | R | R | FR | Madison, MS | .174 | 15 | 23 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | .217 | .296 | 1–1 | .813 |
15 | Matthew Britton | 2B | L | R | FR | Cullman, AL | .177 | 52 | 124 | 17 | 22 | 0 | 9 | .185 | .288 | 3–3 | .947 |
17 | Nick Ammirati | C | S | R | JR | Sparta, NJ | .250 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | .250 | .308 | 0–1 | 1.000 |
22 | Luis Pollorena | OF | L | L | JR | Laredo, TX | .182 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .182 | .231 | 0–0 | .929 |
24 | Brandon Woodruff | OF | L | R | FR | Wheeler, MS | .105 | 13 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .105 | .227 | 0–1 | 1.000 |
29 | Mitch Slauter | C | R | R | JR | Olathe, KS | .232 | 64 | 220 | 35 | 51 | 3 | 23 | .327 | .354 | 0–2 | .990 |
32 | Trey Porter | 1B | L | R | JR | Hurley, MS | .259 | 60 | 205 | 26 | 53 | 5 | 24 | .376 | .388 | 1–4 | .933 |
34 | Hunter Renfroe | OF | R | R | SO | Crystal Springs, MS | .252 | 61 | 230 | 24 | 58 | 4 | 25 | .374 | .328 | 7–8 | .984 |
35 | Wes Rea | 1B | R | R | FR | Gulfport, MS | .249 | 64 | 217 | 24 | 54 | 5 | 41 | .392 | .326 | 0–2 | .991 |
42 | Brent Brownlee | OF | R | R | SR | Oxford, MS | .204 | 41 | 98 | 12 | 20 | 0 | 11 | .235 | .304 | 1–1 | .980 |
49 | Kendall Graveman | PR | R | R | JR | Alexander City, AL | .000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | 0–0 | .972 |
99. | ² Totals | – | – | – | – | --------- | .251 | 64 | 2085 | 287 | 524 | 21 | 255 | .333 | .358 | 45–72 | .969 |
99. | ²² Opponents | – | – | – | – | --------- | .240 | 64 | 2156 | 219 | 517 | 17 | 192 | .313 | .314 | 52–74 | .975 |
NOTE: The use of 99. and ² have no significance other than to maintain Totals and Opponents at the bottom when sorted ascending for those columns.
Pitchers
# | Player | T | Yr | Hometown | ERA | W-L | G-GS | SV | IP | H | BB | SO | FLD% |
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44 | Andrew Busby | R | JR | Gardendale, AL | 0.00 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 |
14 | Jonathan Holder | R | FR | Gulfport, MS | 0.32 | 2–1 | 24–0 | 9 | 28.1 | 17 | 5 | 30 | 1.000 |
4 | Ben Bracewell | R | SO | Chelsea, AL | 0.93 | 0–0 | 9–3 | 0 | 19.1 | 13 | 10 | 19 | .667 |
39 | Tanner Gaines | R | FR | Baldwyn, MS | 1.08 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 0 | 8.1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | .500 |
48 | Ross Mitchell | L | FR | Smyrna, TN | 1.18 | 3–0 | 24–1 | 0 | 38.0 | 24 | 8 | 24 | 1.000 |
22 | Luis Pollorena | L | JR | Laredo, TX | 1.85 | 4–0 | 16–4 | 0 | 34.0 | 24 | 6 | 24 | .929 |
28 | Chris Stratton | R | JR | Tupelo, MS | 2.38 | 11–2 | 17–12 | 1 | 109.2 | 84 | 25 | 127 | .952 |
24 | Brandon Woodruff | R | FR | Wheeler, MS | 2.38 | 1–2 | 12–6 | 0 | 34.0 | 25 | 17 | 37 | 1.000 |
37 | Caleb Reed | R | SR | Cleveland, MS | 2.47 | 1–5 | 31–1 | 9 | 58.1 | 51 | 22 | 52 | 1.000 |
49 | Kendall Graveman | R | JR | Alexander City, AL | 2.81 | 4–4 | 16–16 | 0 | 89.2 | 84 | 21 | 59 | .972 |
21 | Jacob Lindgren | L | FR | Bay St. Louis, MS | 3.18 | 2–2 | 14–2 | 1 | 28.1 | 31 | 7 | 24 | 1.000 |
31 | Trevor Fitts | R | FR | Helena, AL | 3.29 | 3–0 | 8–0 | 0 | 13.2 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 1.000 |
51 | Evan Mitchell | R | SO | Marietta, GA | 3.52 | 2–1 | 13–4 | 0 | 38.1 | 31 | 28 | 43 | .900 |
7 | Taylor Stark | R | SO | Flowood, MS | 3.68 | 1–0 | 8–0 | 1 | 7.1 | 11 | 5 | 5 | .917 |
36 | Nick Routt | L | JR | Silver Spring, MD | 3.80 | 3–5 | 18–7 | 0 | 45.0 | 58 | 15 | 39 | .923 |
38 | Will Cox | R | FR | Amory, MS | 4.64 | 2–1 | 7–6 | 0 | 21.1 | 22 | 3 | 22 | .800 |
18 | Chad Girodo | L | JR | Hartselle, AL | 5.87 | 0–1 | 11–0 | 0 | 7.2 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 1.000 |
10 | C.T. Bradford | L | SO | Pace, FL | 10.12 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0 | 2.2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | .968 |
99. | ² Totals | – | – | ------ | 2.58 | 40–24 | 64–64 | 21 | 585.0 | 517 | 181 | 536 | .969 |
99. | ²² Opponents | – | – | ------ | 3.82 | 24–40 | 64–64 | 14 | 568.1 | 524 | 261 | 443 | .975 |
NOTE: The use of 99. and ² have no significance other than to maintain Totals and Opponents at the bottom when sorted ascending for those columns.
Players Not Played
These players were on the roster, but did not appear in a game, and may have been redshirted or left the program.
# | Player | Pos | B | T | YR | Hometown |
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6 | C.C. Watson | P | L | L | SO | Heflin, AL |
25 | Nick Flair | SS | R | R | FR | Belle Chasse, LA |
33 | Preston Brown | P | R | R | FR | Germantown, TN |
Schedule and results
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