MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia sophomore
JJ Wetherholt has been tabbed as the NCBWA District 2 Player of the Year, becoming the fourth Mountaineer to earn the honor, joining Jedd Gyorko (2009 & 2010), Braden Zarbnisky (2017), and Alek Manoah (2019).
The latest in a long list of accolades for Wetherholt comes a day after being named a finalist for the Dick Howser Trophy and Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger Award. He has also already been named Big 12 Player of the Year and a first-team All-American by Collegiate Baseball.
Wetherholt put up the greatest offensive season in WVU history as he hit a nation-leading .449 with 16 home runs, 24 doubles, two triples, 60 RBI, 67 runs scored, and 36 stolen bases. He is also among the NCAA leaders with 1.84 hits per game (first) and a .787 slugging percentage (11
th).
The Mars, Pennsylvania native is just one of two players to hit 15 home runs and steal 35 bases this season as well as the first player since Adam Greenberg of North Carolina in 2002 to have 35 stolen bases and 40 extra-base hits.
Other District Players of the Year include Jeremiah Jenkins (District 1, Maine), Jac Caglianone (3, Florida), Rhett Lowder (4, Wake Forest), Brock Vradenburg (5, Michigan State), Max Anderson (6, Nebraska), Dylan Crews and Paul Skenes (7, LSU), Austin Deming (8, BYU), and Alberto Rios (9, Stanford).
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