🚨🚨🚨Elon RHP George Kirby drafted
#20
overall🚨🚨🚨
🔥🔥Kirby makes history as the highest draft pick in
#ElonBaseball
history; first 1st rounder ever.🔥🔥
👀He joins former Elon hitter Nick Zammarelli in the Mariners organization.👀
@ElonBaseball
@RyeHSBaseball
🔥🔥THIS IS THE HIGHEST RANKED TEAM ELON HAS BEATEN SINCE 2002, WHEN THE PHOENIX BEAT
#1
CLEMSON!🔥🔥
🚨🚨🚨THIS IS THE HIGHEST RANKED TEAM ELON HAS BEATEN AT HOME..... EVVVVVVVVVVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!🚨🚨🚨
What a year for Elon’s George Kirby
4/8: began season in AA
5/8: skipped AAA to make MLB debut (6 shutout IP)
8/24: MLB record for consecutive strikes to start game (24)
August: AL Rookie of the Month
10/8: MLB playoff debut/1st MLB SV
10/15: 1st MLB playoff start (7 shutout IP)
On this day, 24 years ago,
@Mike_Kennedy12
was named head coach of
@ElonBaseball
.
Today, only 14 D1 baseball coaches have led their schools for longer.
Combining his time as a player & pitching coach, Kennedy has been part of
#ElonBaseball
for 31 of the past 33 years.
One of the best
@ElonBaseball
teams in the last 15 years has its season ended on the last day of the CAA Tournament.
Picked to finish near the bottom of the CAA, Elon nearly finished 1st & also won 3 top-25 games.
Thanks for the memories and good luck to those moving on.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Kenny Mallory Jr., the impact transfer from Vanderbilt, is the early leader in runs scored for
#ElonBaseball
.
It runs in the family.
His dad, Kenny Mallory Sr., led Elon in runs scored (43) in 1992.
🚨MILESTONE REACHED🚨
For 500 wins as part of
#ElonBaseball
’s coaching staff, congratulations to Robbie Huffstetler. He’s kept Elon competitive every single year, has been part of Elon’s winningest season and has helped the team beat numerous top-25 teams over the years.
Elon’s Kirby, who came into the season expected to throw 20-30 innings, reaches 20, lowers ERA to 2.25
⚾️🔥👀His combined 2019 K-BB ratio (Elon & MiLB) is now an incredible 130-6👀🔥⚾️
His last BB was on May 4, the day
@ElonBaseball
clinched its first CAA regular season title
🚨🚨🚨LADIES AND GENTLEMEN....YOUR 2019 CAA REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONS...
@ElonBaseball
!!!!🚨🚨🚨
This is the team’s 1st CAA title and its 1st regular season conference title since 2011!!!
Elon’s 18-2 CAA record (and counting...) is among the best records in
@CAASports
history!!!
Elon’s best hitter is also the best hitter in
@CAASports
.
Here are CAA rankings for Joe Satterfield, who has stepped up big in 2019:
🔥1st in OBP (.510)
🔥1st in AVG (.403)
🔥1st in H (31)
🔥T-3rd in BB (17)
⚾️He also ranks in the top 50, nationally, in H and OBP⚾️
Holy **** 😮😮
This marks the first time Elon has recorded 3 top-25 wins in the same season since 2010. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
And it’s the first time they’ve recorded 2 top-10 wins at home in the same season EVVVVVERRRRRR. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Team’s good.
🚨🚨WOOOOAHHH!!🚨🚨
.
@ElonBaseball
JUST WON ITS FIRST GAME AGAINST ECU IN 5 YEARS, WON ITS FIRST GAME AGAINST A TOP-10 TEAM IN 8 YEARS, WON ITS FIRST HOME GAME AGAINST ECU IN 12 YEARS...
AND WON ITS FIRST GAME AGAINST A TOP-10 ECU TEAM IN SCHOOL HISTORY!!!
#BauerEdgington2021
Assuming his Elon career is over, Jr. Kyle Brnovich was simply the best.
He owns 7 Elon records including career lowest ERA (D1), career lowest opp. AVG (D1) & career Ks/9 (D1).
I’m glad I got to watch him play & am excited to see what he does in pro ball. Good luck,
@kylebrno
!
Elon is 5-0 in Mitrovich's last 5 starts.
Reynolds: 9-for-17 in past week, w/ 5 R, 6 RBI & 3 BB; His on-base streak now at 21 games.
Granatell's H streak now at 6 games, Sprock's to 7 & Cassella's to 7.
Dabagian lowers his ERA to 1.50 over 18 IP.
Team's good.
Most of the mail I receive is either bills or b.s. Not today.
Check out who, out of the blue, signed a bat for me, and then paid to have it shipped across the country.
Thanks so much,
@Zamm94
. Means a lot! Hey
@nzamm5
, you raised a good one!
@ElonPhoenix
@ElonBaseball
Elon’s George Kirby is still expected to start 2020 with the High-A
@ModestoNuts
(as the Ace)...aaaand look who’s expected to join him: Elon’s Ty Adcock (in bullpen). 👀
And you already know their new pitching coach... Elon’s Sean McGrath
@ElonBaseball
Elon has won 30 games in a season for the first time since 2019.
And with Joe Savino’s W, Elon now has 4 pitchers with 5+ wins for the first time since 2013 (when Elon was in the SoCon): Sprague, Dabagian, Mitrovich & Savino.
FINAL | Elon takes Game Two in the DH to complete the
#CAA
series sweep! 🧹Five Phoenix batters had multi-hit efforts in the finale.
#phoenixrising
#elonbaseball
Elon’s team ERA is 2.61, the 2nd best in the CAA so far.
The weekend starters are a big reason why...
Wetherbee: 1-0, 1.64 ERA, 11.0 IP, 17 K, .114 AVG
McCarthy: 2-0, 1.64 ERA, 11.0 IP, 14 K, .200 AVG
Bauer: 1-0, 1.69 ERA, 10.2 IP, 14 K, .152 AVG
.
@UVABaseball
has announced its opening day starter will be:
⚾️Former
#ElonBaseball
Friday starter Brian Edgington 👀
The 2022 CAA 2nd Team performer was named a
@d1baseball
top 100 Impact Transfer in the offseason.
Good luck to Brian this year!
🚨Elon def. NC State, 14-6 🚨
⚾️It’s Elon’s first win vs a top-25 team since 2021.
⚾️It’s Elon’s first road win vs a top-25 team since 2019.
⚾️It’s Elon’s first win vs NC State since 2015.
⚾️It’s Elon’s first win in Raleigh since 2011.
End of regular season conference
#s
for Elon's pitching staff: 2.63 ERA, 245 Ks, .215 Opp. AVG (all lead CAA)
Elon is 26-10 (18-5 in CAA) when part of the '3-Headed Monster' (Brnovich/Kirby/Wetherbee) starts
Since April 6, combined
#s
for Kirby & Wetherbee: 7-1, 0.97 ERA, 74 IP
I feel old. Today is my 10-year Twitter anniversary. I’ve been following
#ElonBaseball
since the 2010 season so I guess I’ll dedicate this to all
@ElonBaseball
players, coaches and families, past and present. Oh, and
@maxgongaware
. Thanks, all, for the memories so far!
On Tuesday,
@Mike_Kennedy12
will become the 1st to reach an incredible milestone: 1,500 games managed at Elon.
No other
@ElonBaseball
head coach has ever reached 200 wins. Mike has 839.
The 839 = 37% of all wins in school history among all 26 known coaches dating back to 1900.
On this day in 1996,
@ElonPhoenix
promoted its 27-year-old pitching coach & former C to run its D-2 baseball program.
In 2003, he became
@ElonBaseball
’s winningest HC.
Today, only 10 active D-1 head baseball coaches have led their current teams for more years than Mike Kennedy.
Elon guarantees itself a top 3 seed in the CAA Tournament and prevents Hofstra from making the tourney.
With a win tomorrow, Elon will reach 20 conference wins for the first time since 2012 (SoCon era).
And Elon still has a chance to win the CAA regular season title tomorrow…
Elon bashes three homers and the Phoenix sweeps the doubleheader! Elon will head to the final day of the regular season with a chance to win the CAA regular season crown.
#PhoenixRising
Up next: season
#24
for Mike Kennedy.
For the first time ever, NONE of the players on
#ElonBaseball
's upcoming roster were alive when Kennedy was named head coach at Elon.
Also a first: Kennedy enters 2020 as the longest-tenured active head coach in the CAA.
#ElonBaseball2020
#ElonBaseball
’s Mike Kennedy prepares for season
#23
as head coach.
Of the 34 players on the 2019 roster, only 2 were alive when Kennedy was named HC at Elon, on Sept. 12, 1996.
There are now just 20 HC’s in D1 baseball who’ve been at their current school longer than Kennedy.
Elon’s George Kirby threw in his first intra-squad game of the summer a few days ago. The Mariners GM said his fastball was sitting between 97-99 mph. 👀👀👀
#ElonBaseball
Some notes from earlier ...
•
#Mariners
trim the roster to 28.
• Last year's first-rounder George Kirby throws in his first intrasquad game in Tacoma.
• MLB hits leader Kyle Lewis gets a deserved day off.
The longest outing of Matt Tabor’s pro career is over.
6.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 8 K
The former Elon recruit lowers his ERA to 2.62 over 10 starts in Low-A.
He’s got a 58-6 K-BB ratio this year.
Good morning.
Elon’s Ryne Ogren remains in AAA today.
He made his debut last night, becoming the first Mariners 2018 draft pick to get to AAA.
He was an emergency call-up, and spent 2+ hours in an Uber to get to his new team.
National champs LSU lost to Wake Forest on June 19 & to Kentucky on April 14…
Elon beat Wake Forest on April 4 and Kentucky on Feb. 17…
#ElonBaseball
= the real 2023 national champions via the transitive property. ✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼
🐯 𝐆𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐱𝐦𝐚𝐡𝐚! 𝐋𝐒𝐔 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞
@LSUbaseball
used a powerful offensive performance and stellar pitching from Thatcher Hurd (
@ThatcherHurd
) to win its seventh national title with a win over Florida.
🔗
Mason Daniels today:
-his best start since 2/28/16
-his most Ks in a game since 3/26/16 (T-2nd most ever in his Elon career)
-his longest outing since 5/1/16
#ElonBaseball
Elon’s Ryan Conroy, over his last 4 appearances for the High-A
@IronBirds
:
0.84 ERA, 10.2 IP, 8 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 11 K
His pro ERA sits under 3.00 as he approaches his 50th MiLB game.
Elon has the 24th best RPI & the 10th toughest schedule in D1 baseball ()🔥
Elon’s RPI is better than these Top-25 teams (
@d1baseball
) 👀
#6
Louisville
#9
Stanford
#12
Tenn.
#13
Ole Miss
#14
Texas Tech
#15
UNC
#19
FGCU
#21
Texas A&M
#24
WV
#25
Grand Canyon
⚾️ Elon’s Nick Zammarelli, whose pro baseball career spanned 5 years/400+ games, has retired ⚾️
Drafted twice (2013 & 2016), Nick was a star at Elon & later made it up to AA, becoming a fan favorite at every stop.
His 24 2B at Elon in 2016 remain tied for the school record.
🔥⚾️🔥⚾️🔥 WE HAVE A NEW STRIKEOUT LEADER IN COLLEGE BASEBALL! NOW AT
#1
IN THE UNITED STATES, FROM
@ElonBaseball
AND
@KRCSbaseball
, KYLE BRNOVICH! 🔥⚾️🔥⚾️🔥
On this day, in 2019, Elon grabbed the CAA Coach & Pitcher of the Year awards.
The legendary Mike Kennedy got coaching honor
#5
(in 3 conferences) thanks to a 19-5 CAA record.
George Kirby became Elon’s 1st pitcher to win conf. Pitcher of the Year since John Brebbia (2011).
This afternoon, Elon’s Ryan Conroy made his 50th professional appearance during his 1st-ever start at the High-A level.
The 2018 8th rd pick is also now just 2 Ks away from 150 throughout his pro career and just 5.1 IP away from 150.
🚨With the win on Sunday, longtime Elon Head Coach
@Mike_Kennedy12
joined the 750 career wins club! 🚨
Kennedy appears among the winningest active D1 baseball HCs (Note: list- heading into season- includes many coaches who moved around; Kennedy has always been at
@ElonBaseball
)
Elon defeats Delaware State 8-0 on Sunday to complete the series sweep! McCarthy earns the win after throwing 6.0 scoreless innings with 7 Ks.
#phoenixrising
#elonbaseball
🎊🍾 Congratulations to
@ElonBaseball
’s
@RobHuffstetler
who just picked up win
#600
as a member of the coaching staff! 👀🙌🏼
Some
#ElonBaseball
freshmen were not yet born when Robbie joined the staff prior to the 2004 season.
Wait wait wait. Take a moment to realize that
@ElonBaseball
just finished 2nd in the CAA standings…
…despite being picked to finish 7th…
Or 8th…
Now, let’s win some more games in Charleston…
🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
Assuming his Elon career is over, Jr. George Kirby is the school’s best pro prospect of all-time.
With a fastball in the upper 90s and an eye-opening K-BB ratio, he is expected to be Elon’s highest-ever draft pick.
Great career and excited to see what’s next for
@gkirb98
!
#ElonBaseball
current *national* ranks:
🔥🔥T-3rd in Ks (180)🔥🔥
🔥🔥T-5th in Ks/9 (11)🔥🔥
Elon's 2017 pitching staff broke a school record with 491 Ks.
Through 16 games, those pitchers had 141 Ks.
🔥🔥Through 16 games in 2018, this staff already has 180 Ks...............🔥🔥
Currently at 339, Elon’s Brnovich will most likely move into 2nd place all-time today, becoming the only pitcher other than Justin Verlander to ever throw more than 340 Ks in a career in
@CAASports
.
Congratulations to a legendary Elon pitcher.
UPDATE: Kyle Brnovich has moved up to 7th on this list, jumping above UNCW’s Mat Batts (‘12-14).
This means that Justin Verlander was the last CAA pitcher to throw more career strikeouts than Brnovich.
This is, by far,
@ElonBaseball
’s most successful MLB Draft of all-time.
🔥This is the first time Elon has ever had 3 players taken in the first 10 rounds of the same draft!
Rd 1, pick
#20
overall: G. Kirby
Rd 8, pick
#241
overall: K. Brnovich
Rd 8, pick
#246
overall: T. Adcock
👀Cam Devanney’s 13-game hitting streak is now the longest of any Elon player this year...or last year.
He has multiple hits in 8 of those 13; multiple RBIs in 7 of those 13.
🔥Cam is now one of the best players in the CAA (ranks):
RBIs- 2nd
Runs- 2nd
SLG%- 2nd
H- 4th
AVG- 4th
Simon Says...
🔥If you watched today’s game, you saw the best start by an Elon freshman on opening weekend...since at least 2003....🔥
Ben Simon:
4.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 4 BB, 7 K.
BOT 5 | That will do it for Simon. He finishes with 7 Ks and 1 R (unearned) on 2 Hs and 4 BBs through 4.0 IP. In to pitch for the Phoenix is Fr. RH Ben Sieracki with Elon still out front, 2-1. 👏👏👏
#phoenixrising
#elonbaseball
Welcome to Monday.
Today,
#ElonBaseball
’s George Kirby is expected to make
@elonuniversity
history by becoming the school’s first 1st round pick in the MLB Draft.
#ElonBaseball
’s pitching staff has become one of the best in Division 1. Take a look at their updated national rankings, following a series win over the team that was picked to win CAA:
3rd in Hs allowed/9 innings
4th in Ks/9 innings
12th in WHIP
🔥⚾️🔥15th in ERA⚾️🔥⚾️
8th-rounder Ty Adcock signs w/
@Mariners
for $150k (pick 246 value = $167k). Elon RHP, 93-97 mph fastball w/riding life, more velo to come once he's a full-time pitcher (showed raw power as two-way guy for Fighting Christians), flashes plus slider in low 80s.
@MLBDraft
🚨Former Elon pitcher promoted🚨
Elon’s Ryan Conroy has been promoted from Low-A to the High-A
@IronBirds
!
And he’ll see a very familiar face on his new team...
Former Elon P Kyle Brnovich.
The two will be teammates again for the first time since 2018, with
@ElonBaseball
!
🚨Elon def. NC State, 14-6 🚨
⚾️It’s Elon’s first win vs a top-25 team since 2021.
⚾️It’s Elon’s first road win vs a top-25 team since 2019.
⚾️It’s Elon’s first win vs NC State since 2015.
⚾️It’s Elon’s first win in Raleigh since 2011.
While you were sleeping, Elon’s Cam Devanney was playing a nearly 5-hour baseball game that lasted 14 innings.
He collected his first 3B and had his first 3-hit game overnight in Rookie.
Through 3 games: 15 AB, 4 R, 6 H, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 RBI, 2 SB, .400 AVG
Matt Tabor, the former Elon commit who signed with the Dbacks after the 2017 draft, is scheduled to make his 8th start in Low-A tonight.
He has a lower ERA, better K-BB ratio, lower opp. AVG & better H allowed/9 ratio in Low-A than he did in Short-Season last year
How about Elon’s Ty Adcock this summer:
Last night, he extended his hit streak to 13 games....
....while also pitching 2 innings (and not giving up a run).
Here are his stats on BOTH sides of the ball:
⚾️(50 AB) .380 AVG/.439 OBP/.500 SLG
⚾️(11 G) 13.2 IP, 2.63 ERA, 18 K
I say we have a game where Ty Adcock isn’t allowed to step off the field...
As a hitter (team rankings):
T-1st in RBI
T-1st in HR
T-1st in 3B
As a pitcher (team rankings):
1st in ERA
1st in SV
🔥🔥Through one month of play, Elon R-Fr. Alex Iadisernia is one of the top hitters in the CAA 🔥🔥
H - 22 (1st in CAA)
R - 15 (T-1st)
AVG - .423 (3rd)
OBP - .508 (4th)
Note: Baseball America did not mention Iadisernia in its season preview for Elon last month.
👀🔥🚨
@ElonBaseball
getting some serious love from Baseball America in the Mariners 2019 draft report card.
Kirby: best fastball, best secondary pitch, closest to the Majors
And Adcock didn’t even need to step on the pro mound to get ‘best athlete’!
In 2021, it took 29 games for someone to beat Fairfield.
This year, it only took 3. Elon knocks off last year’s cinderella as the Phoenix get on the board with win
#1
of the season!
@ElonBaseball
🚨
@ElonBaseball
Milestone 🚨
⚾️ Tonight, Elon's John Brebbia recorded his 100th MLB strikeout ⚾️
🔥🔥🔥 It's now the fastest that an Elon pitcher has ever reached 100 (93 IP) 🔥🔥🔥
@elonalumni
@ElonPhoenix
#BREAKING
@ElonBaseball
’s Ryne Ogren has been promoted to the Low-A
@wv_power
!
Ogren had nearly 200 ABs in Short-Season last year and he even made an emergency appearance in AAA.
He was drafted in the 12th round of the MLB Draft in 2018.
Despite the ending,
@ElonBaseball
showed heart this year for a young team; lost Satterfield/McCarthy from 2020, Wetherbee hurt but still competed vs CAA powerhouses
Elon won 3 vs current top-50 RPI teams including
#8
ranked ECU.
Thank you to those whose Elon careers have ended.
Ryan Conroy’s season is over.
He became Elon’s highest draft pick in 8 years when the Orioles took him in the 8th round (235 overall).
He wasted no time, earning a quick promotion from Rookie to Short Season.
Combined numbers: 3.26 ERA, 15 G (1 GS), 6 SV, 19.1 IP, 21 K
Dean McCarthy’s 28 appearances in 2019 are the most in a season for an Elon pitcher since Thomas Girdwood had 29 in 2009.
Ty Adcock’s 54 RBI in 2019 are the most in a season for an Elon hitter since Ryan Kinsella had 78 in 2013.
#ElonBaseball
The Seattle Mariners are calling up right-hander George Kirby, one of the best pitching prospects in baseball, sources tell ESPN. Kirby, 24, is a former first-rounder who dominated at AA this season. Huge stuff, huge ceiling and the Mariners, who are slumping, could use a boost.
Congrats to
#ElonBaseball
on a great year...one that ended well above expectations and one that saw team and individual records fall. Elon lost in the CAA Tournament to the eventual tournament champions and then to the regular season champions. Great season.
According to the CAA’s updated tournament schedule, Sunday night’s game will be winner-take-all, meaning if UNCW loses, they would be eliminated despite only losing one tournament game…
Another first for Elon’s/
@cbebaseball
’s Robbie Welhaf...
He got his 1st professional start yesterday:
4.0 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 3 K.
His ERA in Rookie ball, through 24.1 innings, is now 2.96.
.
@ElonBaseball
’s Joe Savino this summer, in the prestigious Cape Cod League (
@HarwichMariners
):
3-0, 1.78 ERA, 10 G, 25.1 IP, 19 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 6 BB, 31 K. 👀👀👀
Elon’s
@SheaSprague7
ties the school’s D1-era freshman record for wins, with 6 🔥🔥🔥
He also finishes with the lowest Elon freshman ERA (min. 30 IP) in 21 years 🔥🔥🔥