Drafted by the New York Yankees (34th round, No. 1057 overall) on June 6, 2012 – signed on June 9, 2012
PERSONAL ACCOLADES
2012 All-ACC Second Team
2008 All-ACC Second Team
2008 NCBWA Preseason Third Team All-American
2008 Brooks Wallace Award Preseason Watch List
2007 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American
2007 Baseball America Freshman All-American
2007 All-ACC First Team
Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 43rd round of the 2006 MLB Draft
Graduate Student (2012)…
Granted a sixth year of eligbility by the NCAA after missing two full seasons while recovering from Tommy John surgery (2009, 2011)… Selected as a team co-captain at the team’s First Pitch Banquet…One of only two Hurricanes earning All-ACC recognition as one of three starters named to the all-conference Second-Team…Named the team’s “Friday night” starter and did not miss a start on the year…Registered a 2.88 ERA in 16 starts, posting a team-best strikeout-to-walk ratio of 66:11…Led the team with 96.0 innings pitched and a team-best eight wins…Ranked in the conference Top 20 for ERA (2.88, 14th), wins (eight, fourth) and innings pitched (96.0, sixth)…Opened the year with 13 scoreless innings in wins over Rutgers (Feb. 17) and Albany (Feb. 24), striking out 16 batters while walking none over that stretch…Went a season-long 7.2 innings in a series-opening win over Boston College (March 9), allowing three runs and striking out five batters…Delivered seven dominant innings in a shutout of then-No. 3 North Carolina (April 6), striking out five batters and walking none…Earned his seventh win of the season against Bethune-Cookman (May 4), striking out eight batters across seven scoreless frames…Pitched seven strong against North Carolina State in the team’s ACC Tournament opener in Greensboro, N.C., allowing only one run…Finished the last 28 innings (spanning five starts) of his career with combined totals of two wins, no losses, 15 strikeouts, one walk and four runs allowed…
Senior (2011)…
Sat out the 2011 campaign due to medical hardship waiver…
Redshirt Junior (2010)…
Saw action in 11 contests before closing the season early due to injury… Posted the second-lowest ERA on the team with a mark of 2.52 on the campaign… Went 4-1 on the mound with 10 starts across 11 games… Combined for one shutout… Tossed 53 2/3 innings while allowing just 15 earned runs (24 total) with 47 strikeouts against a team-low six walks… Held an average against of .239 with 48 hits surrendered… Returned to the starting rotation after missing the entire 2009 season rehabilitating from Tommy John surgery… Owns a career strikeout-to-walk ratio of 3.9-to-1 (131 Ks, 34 BBs)… Named a Freshman All-American by both Baseball America and Louisville Slugger in 2007… Became the first UM freshman in school history to be named first team All-ACC in 2007… Southpaw who was an elite, top-of-the-rotation starter before his injury…
Sophomore (2008)…
Named Second Team All-ACC… Ranked second on the Hurricanes’ pitching staff with nine wins on the season… Ranked third on the staff in games started (13) and innings pitched (78.0) and fourth in strikeouts (68)… Won each of his first six starts on the season (Cincinnati – 2/22, Florida – 2/29, BC – 3/7, NC State – 3/14, Wake Forest – 3/21, FSU – 4/20)… His four wins in ACC play tied him with fellow starter Enrique Garcia for second-most on the staff… Started exactly one-fourth of team’s Atlantic Coast Conference games (7-of-28)… Lasted at least six innings in eight of 13 starts… Allowed two runs or fewer in six of 13 starts… Had a 3.8-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio (68 Ks, 18 BBs)… Recorded a season-high nine strikeouts against Florida (2/29)… Longest ’08 outing: 7.0 innings (BC – 3/7, Saint Mary’s – 5/3, Ole Miss – 6/1)… Made only relief appearance on the season, picking up a win against Florida State at the College World Series after allowing just one run in five innings of work out of the pen… Struck out at least five batters in nine of 14 appearances… Best outing of the season came against Saint Mary’s (5/3), allowing no runs on just two hits while striking out seven in seven innings of work in Coral Gables… Started and won the Coral Gables Regional championship game against Ole Miss, allowing only two first inning runs while striking out five in seven innings of work…
Freshman (2007)…
Finished 10-4 with a 2.50 ERA and 63 strikeouts in 90 innings in his inaugural season with the Hurricanes… Went 6-2 with a 1.93 ERA in ACC games… Started 13 of 16 games for Miami and recorded one save… His first career start came against Elon on Feb. 24 (UM won, 17-4)… Posted his second win of the season over third-ranked Florida State 5/25), tossing a career-long 8.0 innings in a 9-3 win at the ACC Tournament… Tossed 7.2 innings in a 5-1 win against Duke (5/18) in Coral Gables, holding the Blue Devils to just one run on seven hits while striking out three… At Wake Forest (5/12), tossed three full innings in a continuation of game one of the series, two-hitting the Demon Deacons as Miami won 9-8 in 14 innings. Thirty minutes later, he started game two of the series and tossed five more innings, limiting Wake Forest to just one unearned run on three hits… Scattered six hits over six innings and struck out three in the series finale at FSU (4/29), lifting UM to a 7-1 win over the top-ranked Seminoles… Pitched six innings and limited No. 11 Clemson to three runs in a 10-3 win on the road (3/30)… Struck out a career-high 11 in seven innings at Maryland (3/16), holding the Terps scoreless in a 13-3 UM win… Tossed a career-long eight innings and struck out five in an 8-1 win vs. Fordham (3/3)… Against UCLA (2/9), struck out five in four innings of work and gave up only two hits to earn his first career save in his first career appearance…
High School/Prep…
Played for Clyde Metcalf at Sarasota High School… Compiled a record of 18-2 in his junior and senior seasons to lead Sarasota to a combined 55-6 record… A two-time first team 6A All-State selection… Went 12-1 with a 0.50 ERA for the 6A state runner-up his senior season in 2006… Named the Florida Dairy Farmer 6A State Player of the Year, a Louisville Slugger All-American and a 6A First Team All-State Selection in 2006… Struck out 126 batters on the way to a 6-1 record with a 0.30 ERA his junior year in 2005… Earned 6A All-State First Team honors after leading team to a record of 28-1 and a No. 1 ranking in the country by USA Today until losing a regional playoff game…
Personal…
Son of Barbara and Scott Erickson… Has a younger sister, Kelsey…
