BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU sophomore right-hander Ryan Eades has been named the Cape Cod Baseball League Pitcher of the Year.
The Cape Cod League, based in Massachusetts, is a summer wooden-bat league featuring the top collegiate players in the country.
Eades, a native of Slidell, La., made six starts and one relief appearance for the Bourne (Mass.) Braves this summer, posting a 3-0 mark and a 0.84 ERA in 32.1 innings. He struck out 23, walked seven and allowed just 19 hits.
Eades was the starting pitcher for the West squad in the Cape Cod League All-Star Game at Fenway Park in Boston.
Eades, the 19th-round selection of the Colorado Rockies in the 2010 MLB Draft, did not pitch in his senior year at Northshore High School due to a torn labrum and gradually worked his way into the LSU rotation as a freshman during the 2011 season.
Eades was 3-0 for the Tigers in his final four starts, including an SEC victory at Mississippi State in LSU’s season finale. He formed an all-freshman rotation with fellow right-handers Kurt McCune and Kevin Gausman, and the trio will lead a talented LSU pitching staff in 2012.
McCune earned 2011 Freshman all-America honors from Baseball America magazine, and Gausman pitched this summer for the USA Collegiate National Team.