MSU Freshman Nick Routt On Watch List For CBF/Mizuno Pitcher Of The Year Award

STARKVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi State University freshman pitcher Nick Routt is among 50 players named to the initial watch list for the inaugural College Baseball Foundation/Mizuno Pitcher of the Year Award.

Routt, a first-year freshman from Silver Spring, Md., has compiled a 4-3 record and a 3.41 earned run average, leading the Bulldogs with 10 starts, 68.2 innings pitched and 72 strikeouts. He leads the SEC with four complete games registered in consecutive league outings against No. 1 Georgia, No. 9 Arkansas, Auburn and Tennessee. The left-hander ranks third in innings pitched and sixth in strikeouts.

The Bulldog rookie averages better than a strikeout per inning pitched and nearly seven innings pitched in his 10 game-opening performances. He joins five other SEC pitchers --- Alabam’s Austin Hyatt, Georgia’s Dean Weaver and Trevor Holder, and LSU’s Louis Coleman and Anthony Ranaudo on the initial watch list. The CBF/Mizuno Pitcher of the Year will be honored July 2 in Lubbock, Texas, at the College Baseball Wards Show.