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@MizzouBaseball’s Tanner Houck Lands on Golden Spikes Midseason Watch List

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball ace RHP Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) has been named to the Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List, announced Wednesday (April 12) by USA Baseball. Houck has earned a spot on the midseason watch list during each of the last three seasons, making him the first ever Mizzou player to do so in each of his first three seasons.

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Baseball ace RHP Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) has been named to the Golden Spikes Award Midseason Watch List, announced Wednesday (April 12) by USA Baseball. Houck has earned a spot on the midseason watch list during each of the last three seasons, making him the first ever Mizzou player to do so in each of his first three seasons.

On the year, Houck is 3-4 with a 3.04 ERA in 50.1 innings pitched. He has struck out 53 batters in eight starts and is limiting batters to .218 hitting on the year. Houck boasts a career 3.20 ERA in 38 career starts and has amassed 256.1 innings, striking out 250 in his career against only 52 walks. His 250 career strikeouts are the sixth-most in program history, ranking ahead of two-time Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, who had 232 from 2004-06. Houck is widely considered one of the top college arms and is expected to be drafted in the first round of this summer's Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft.

On Wednesday, May 31, USA Baseball will announce the semifinalists for the 2017 Golden Spikes Award. The list of semifinalists will be sent to a voting body consisting of past USA Baseball National Team coaches and press officers, members of the media that follow amateur baseball closely, select professional baseball personnel, current USA Baseball staff and the 39 previous winners of the award, representing a group of more than 200 voters.

Amateur baseball fans across the country will be able to vote for their favorite semifinalists at GoldenSpikesAward.com from May 31-June 9. On Wednesday, June 14, USA Baseball will announce the finalists for the award, and fan voting will once again commence that same day. Fan voting for the finalists will end on Friday, June 23.

The 2017 Golden Spikes Award winner will be named on Thursday, June 29, at a presentation in Los Angeles. The finalists and their families will be honored at the Rod Dedeaux Foundation Award Dinner that evening at Jonathan Club in downtown Los Angeles.

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