Trio Tabbed Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America
6/7/2023 1:00:00 PM | Baseball
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - After a 10th NCAA Tournament and its fourth NCAA Regional final appearance in program history, the Indiana baseball team saw three student-athletes earn Freshman All-America honors from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
The trio of Brayden Risedorph, Devin Taylor and Craig Yoho were each honored by the publication. Risedorph and Taylor each earn the honor as true freshmen, while Yoho was named to the team after spending most of his first four collegiate seasons injured with the 2023 season signaling his first full season of college baseball.
It is the second straight season Indiana has seen multiple freshmen honored with Freshman All-America honors, as the trio of Carter Mathison, Josh Pyne and Brock Tibbitts each earned the honor in 2022.
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). 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)
Risedorph became just the second Indiana freshman to reach the 60-strikeout mark in a season as he fanned 60 batters in 52 1/3 innings of work. Over 25 appearances - five starts - Risedorph posted a 3-1 record with a team-best six saves. He did not allow a run of his own in 11 appearances and limited the opposition to three-or-fewer runs in 23 of 25 appearances. Along with his 60 strikeouts he walked just 19 batters - 13 appearances with zero walks - and posted a .255 batting average against.
Yoho was injured during his 2019 season and then saw his 2020 campaign canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An injury forced him to miss the 2021 and 2022 seasons, at which point he moved from a position player to the mound and appeared in 18 games with a 3.41 ERA over 37 innings of work. he struck out 63 of the 174 batters he faced (46%) and walked just 19 to compile a 4-1 record with one save.
The trio of Brayden Risedorph, Devin Taylor and Craig Yoho were each honored by the publication. Risedorph and Taylor each earn the honor as true freshmen, while Yoho was named to the team after spending most of his first four collegiate seasons injured with the 2023 season signaling his first full season of college baseball.
It is the second straight season Indiana has seen multiple freshmen honored with Freshman All-America honors, as the trio of Carter Mathison, Josh Pyne and Brock Tibbitts each earned the honor in 2022.
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). 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)
Risedorph became just the second Indiana freshman to reach the 60-strikeout mark in a season as he fanned 60 batters in 52 1/3 innings of work. Over 25 appearances - five starts - Risedorph posted a 3-1 record with a team-best six saves. He did not allow a run of his own in 11 appearances and limited the opposition to three-or-fewer runs in 23 of 25 appearances. Along with his 60 strikeouts he walked just 19 batters - 13 appearances with zero walks - and posted a .255 batting average against.
Yoho was injured during his 2019 season and then saw his 2020 campaign canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An injury forced him to miss the 2021 and 2022 seasons, at which point he moved from a position player to the mound and appeared in 18 games with a 3.41 ERA over 37 innings of work. he struck out 63 of the 174 batters he faced (46%) and walked just 19 to compile a 4-1 record with one save.
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