Pirate Trio Selected In 2019 MLB Draft
June 04, 2019 | Baseball
GREENVILLE, N.C. – The ECU trio of Jake Agnos, Spencer Brickhouse and Bryant Packard were all selected on the second day of the 2019 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Agnos and Packard's picks marked the first time in program history that two players were Top 5 round selections in the same year in program history.
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Agnos was a fourth round pick (135 overall) by the New York Yankees and was followed by Bryant Packard (fifth round, 142 by the Detroit Tigers) and Spencer Brickhouse (seventh round, 212 by the Arizona Diamondbacks).
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Agnos, a First-Team All-America selection by Collegiate Baseball, owns an 11-2 overall record with a 2.02 ERA in 16 starts. The lefty has fanned an ECU and American Athletic Conference record 140 batters while walking just 42 in 98.0 innings. He has combined on five shutouts and has allowed 25 runs (22 earned) in 98.0 innings and set a modern day school record with 32.2 consecutive scoreless innings that ended on a wild pitch in the AAC Championships against Houston. The 2019 AAC Pitcher-of-the-Year has recorded double-digit strikeouts in five contests fanning a career-high 14 against UConn in a personal-best 8.2 innings on April 18. He was named to the Golden Spike Watch List and a semifinalist for the College Baseball Foundation's National Pitcher-of-the-Year Award.
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Brickhouse, a two-time all-conference performer, ranks fourth on the team with a .335 batting average (67-for-200) with 13 home runs and 55 RBI to rank second on the team. He is tied with Alec Burleson in multi-RBI games (16) and Packard in runs scored (56), while standing fourth in multi-hit RBI contests (18). Brickhouse has drawn 44 walks, slugged .620 and owns a .468 on-base percentage to lead the Pirates.
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Packard, a two-time unanimous First-Team All-AAC selection, is batting a team second-best .363 (77-for-212) with seven home runs and 40 RBI. During the Greenville Regional he hit at a .500 clip (10-for-20) driving in five runs with a home run and scored six times. He currently stands second on the team in doubles (19) and multi-hit games (24), while ranking fourth in multi-RBI contests (nine). Packard, who set the ECU and AAC record a year ago with his 32-game hitting streak and was a named to a program-best All-America Teams, has registered at least one hit in 41 of 54 games played and scored at least one run in 35 contests.
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ECU (47-16) will be back in action on Friday, June 7 when it travels to Louisville (46-16) for a Super Regional match-up between a pair of national seeds with the winner heading to Men's College World Series in Omaha, Neb.
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Agnos was a fourth round pick (135 overall) by the New York Yankees and was followed by Bryant Packard (fifth round, 142 by the Detroit Tigers) and Spencer Brickhouse (seventh round, 212 by the Arizona Diamondbacks).
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Agnos, a First-Team All-America selection by Collegiate Baseball, owns an 11-2 overall record with a 2.02 ERA in 16 starts. The lefty has fanned an ECU and American Athletic Conference record 140 batters while walking just 42 in 98.0 innings. He has combined on five shutouts and has allowed 25 runs (22 earned) in 98.0 innings and set a modern day school record with 32.2 consecutive scoreless innings that ended on a wild pitch in the AAC Championships against Houston. The 2019 AAC Pitcher-of-the-Year has recorded double-digit strikeouts in five contests fanning a career-high 14 against UConn in a personal-best 8.2 innings on April 18. He was named to the Golden Spike Watch List and a semifinalist for the College Baseball Foundation's National Pitcher-of-the-Year Award.
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Brickhouse, a two-time all-conference performer, ranks fourth on the team with a .335 batting average (67-for-200) with 13 home runs and 55 RBI to rank second on the team. He is tied with Alec Burleson in multi-RBI games (16) and Packard in runs scored (56), while standing fourth in multi-hit RBI contests (18). Brickhouse has drawn 44 walks, slugged .620 and owns a .468 on-base percentage to lead the Pirates.
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Packard, a two-time unanimous First-Team All-AAC selection, is batting a team second-best .363 (77-for-212) with seven home runs and 40 RBI. During the Greenville Regional he hit at a .500 clip (10-for-20) driving in five runs with a home run and scored six times. He currently stands second on the team in doubles (19) and multi-hit games (24), while ranking fourth in multi-RBI contests (nine). Packard, who set the ECU and AAC record a year ago with his 32-game hitting streak and was a named to a program-best All-America Teams, has registered at least one hit in 41 of 54 games played and scored at least one run in 35 contests.
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ECU (47-16) will be back in action on Friday, June 7 when it travels to Louisville (46-16) for a Super Regional match-up between a pair of national seeds with the winner heading to Men's College World Series in Omaha, Neb.
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