Whisenhunt Selected In Second Round By Giants

GREENVILLE, N.C. – East Carolina pitcher Carson Whisenhunt was selected in the second round of the 2022 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the San Francisco Giants (pick 66 overall) Sunday night. With his selection, he becomes the sixth highest draft pick in program history and just the seventh in the first two rounds.

Heading into the 2022 season, Whisenhunt earned inclusion four preseason All-America squads, the Golden Spikes Watch List and was named the American Athletic Conference Pitcher-of-the-Year.

A year ago, the left-hander from Mocksville, N.C. posted a 6-2 record in 13 starts during his first campaign as a member of the weekend rotation. In his first collegiate start he allowed just two runs (both earned) on three hits in four innings where he struck out 10 batters against Rhode Island. The lefty picked up his first collegiate win at Georgia Southern tossing 6.2 scoreless frames with a career-best 11 punch outs and became the first freshman hurler since Brooks Jernigan (1998) to record double-digit strikeouts in consecutive games.

Whisenhunt, who pitched for the Collegiate National Team two summers ago, allowed 28 runs (26 earned) on 50 hits posting a 3.77 ERA. He fanned 79 batters while walking 22 in 62.0 innings. Including the Georgia Southern contest, Whisenhunt also earned victories over Appalachian State, Charlotte, Illinois State, Tulane and UCF.

During the 2021 season, he worked five-plus innings six times with a career-best seven shutout frames versus the 49ers and fanned six or more in an outing on seven occasions. Whisenhunt was named Collegiate Baseball National Player-of-the-Week (Feb. 22), National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Pitcher-of-the-Month (March 3) and American Athletic Conference Pitcher-of-the-Week (March 15).

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