Four Earn ABCA All-Region
6/13/2023 2:00:00 PM | Baseball
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Honors have started to roll in for the Indiana baseball program as the American Baseball Coaches Association tabbed four Hoosiers a part of the Midwest All-Region Team on Tuesday (June 13).
The quartet of senior Phillip Glasser, freshman Devin Taylor, sophomore Brock Tibbitts and sophomore Luke Sinnard were each honored as second-team All-Region selections from the ABCA. Head coach Jeff Mercer is a part of the ABCA NCAA Div. I All-America & Coach of the Year Committee, which coordinates the Midwest Region nomination and voting, along with selecting the organizations All-America teams.
Just the eighth Hoosier to score 70-plus runs in a season, Glasser also finished tied for No. 5 on the single season hits chart with 95 and equaled the longest reached base streak at Indiana since at least 2005 as he reached in 45 straight games to start the season. The 11th Hoosier all-time and first since 2012 to reach the 90-hit mark, Glasser reached base safely in 61 of 63 games with a hit in 49 of those. He posted 32 multi-hit games and 19 multi-run scored games on the season.
Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Taylor finished the season with the most RBIs (59) for an Indiana freshman in program history and finished No. 2 on the freshman home run charts with 16. Overall, he led all Big Ten freshmen in nine major stat categories, which included batting average (.315), OPS (1.080), home runs (16), RBIs (59), total bases (130) and walks (36) to earn first-team All-Big Ten honors. His 16 home runs are No. 3 all-time by a freshman in Big Ten history behind teammate and 2022 Freshman All-American Carter Mathison and Iowa's Brad Carlson (21; 1999)
The sixth Hoosier in program history to reach 60 runs scored, 85 hits and 65 RBIs in a single season, Tibbitts earned second-team All-Big Ten in his sophomore campaign. His 68 RBIs are tied for No. 6 all-time at Indiana and he drove in at least one run in 35 games in 2023, with 22 games of both a run scored and RBI. He reached base safely in 58 of 63 games with a hit in 48 of those contests. His 20 multi-RBI games mark just the third time since 2005 a Hoosier hitter produced 20-plus multi-RBI games.
A second-team All-Big Ten pick, Sinnard made a start on the mound in each of the 16 weekends of the season and set the program record for strikeouts in a single season (114). His 114 punchouts were the most in the Big Ten in 2023, ranked No. 18 nationally and broke an 89-year-old IU record set by Vernon "Whitey" Wilshere in 1934 at 109 and equaled by Eric Arnett in 2009. He walked just 25 batters and ranked No. 2 in the conference with a 4.56 strikeout-to-walk ratio. He tied for a team-high with six victories and logged a team-best 86 1/3 innings of work.
The quartet of senior Phillip Glasser, freshman Devin Taylor, sophomore Brock Tibbitts and sophomore Luke Sinnard were each honored as second-team All-Region selections from the ABCA. Head coach Jeff Mercer is a part of the ABCA NCAA Div. I All-America & Coach of the Year Committee, which coordinates the Midwest Region nomination and voting, along with selecting the organizations All-America teams.
Just the eighth Hoosier to score 70-plus runs in a season, Glasser also finished tied for No. 5 on the single season hits chart with 95 and equaled the longest reached base streak at Indiana since at least 2005 as he reached in 45 straight games to start the season. The 11th Hoosier all-time and first since 2012 to reach the 90-hit mark, Glasser reached base safely in 61 of 63 games with a hit in 49 of those. He posted 32 multi-hit games and 19 multi-run scored games on the season.
Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Taylor finished the season with the most RBIs (59) for an Indiana freshman in program history and finished No. 2 on the freshman home run charts with 16. Overall, he led all Big Ten freshmen in nine major stat categories, which included batting average (.315), OPS (1.080), home runs (16), RBIs (59), total bases (130) and walks (36) to earn first-team All-Big Ten honors. His 16 home runs are No. 3 all-time by a freshman in Big Ten history behind teammate and 2022 Freshman All-American Carter Mathison and Iowa's Brad Carlson (21; 1999)
The sixth Hoosier in program history to reach 60 runs scored, 85 hits and 65 RBIs in a single season, Tibbitts earned second-team All-Big Ten in his sophomore campaign. His 68 RBIs are tied for No. 6 all-time at Indiana and he drove in at least one run in 35 games in 2023, with 22 games of both a run scored and RBI. He reached base safely in 58 of 63 games with a hit in 48 of those contests. His 20 multi-RBI games mark just the third time since 2005 a Hoosier hitter produced 20-plus multi-RBI games.
A second-team All-Big Ten pick, Sinnard made a start on the mound in each of the 16 weekends of the season and set the program record for strikeouts in a single season (114). His 114 punchouts were the most in the Big Ten in 2023, ranked No. 18 nationally and broke an 89-year-old IU record set by Vernon "Whitey" Wilshere in 1934 at 109 and equaled by Eric Arnett in 2009. He walked just 25 batters and ranked No. 2 in the conference with a 4.56 strikeout-to-walk ratio. He tied for a team-high with six victories and logged a team-best 86 1/3 innings of work.
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