ASU baseball puts 3 on All-America team

Three Arizona State baseball players were named All-Americans by Collegiate Baseball, the publication announced Thursday. Starting pitchers Brady Rodgers and Trevor Williams each garnered a second-team selection while first baseman Abe Ruiz earned third-team honors.

Rodgers and Williams were both named to the All-Pac-12 first team this
season, and Ruiz was named all-conference honorable mention.


Rodgers, a junior from Richmond, Texas, finished the year with a
10-3 record and a 2.27 ERA, and he led the team in innings pitched with
115 and strikeouts with 79. He had three complete games this season and
began the year with 23 consecutive scoreless innings, the sixth-best streak in school history. He has walked just 36 batters in three seasons at ASU.


Rodgers has a career ERA of 2.39 in 286 total innings, which puts him second
on the school's career ERA list behind Floyd
Bannister (74-76), who had a 1.88 ERA.


Williams, a sophomore from San Diego, Calif., tied for first in
Division I with 12 victories this season and was the Pac-12's
only 12-game winner. He finished the season with a 2.05 ERA in 109 2/3
innings pitched and struck out 59 while walking just 13. Williams recorded
two complete-game shutouts this season.


Ruiz, a senior who hails from Pacific Grove, Calif., tied for the Pac-12
lead in home runs with 13 and finished second in the conference in
slugging percentage at .595. He appeared in all 56 games for the Sun
Devils, hitting .305 with a team-high 53 RBIs on 61 hits, including a
team-best 19 doubles.


ASU was one of only six schools in Division I to place at least
three players on the All-America teams. Florida State and Baylor each placed four, while Texas A&M, Stony Brook, Arizona and ASU have three.

ASU and Arizona tied for the most selections among Pac-12 teams, followed by Oregon with two and one each from Cal, Stanford and UCLA.