@MizzouBaseball’s Tanner Houck Named Preseason All-American
12/20/2016 10:37:00 AM | Baseball
Junior righty lands on Collegiate Baseball’s All-America Third Team
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball junior righty Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) was named a Preseason Third Team All-American by Collegiate Baseball, announced Monday by the national college baseball publication. This is the second consecutive season that Houck has been tabbed a Preseason All-American, earning the same distinction from D1Baseball.com and PerfectGame.com in the preseason a year ago.
Houck is coming off of a stellar sophomore season during which he posted a 2.99 ERA in 105.1 innings pitched, allowing just 82 hits while striking out a career-best 106 against only 27 walks. He went 5-6 in 15 starts and was twice named SEC Pitcher of the Week while garnering Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week honors following his start against Vanderbilt. He limited batters to just .209 hitting in 2016.
Houck, who owns a 13-11 career record and 3.23 career ERA, will anchor Mizzou's pitching staff for first-year head coach Steve Bieser. In two years, Houck has limited batters to .220 hitting and owns a strikeout-walk ratio of 5.1 (197-39). He has thrown more than 100 innings in each of his first two seasons as a Tiger and is expected to be one of the first 10 players selected in next year's Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft as well.
Mizzou will send Houck to the mound opening day on Feb. 17 against Eastern Michigan in Fort Myers, Fla., the first in a four-game series to open 2017. For all the latest on Mizzou Baseball, stay tuned to MUTigers.com and follow the team on Twitter @MizzouBaseball.
