North Carolina State University Athletics
Brackman Gets Call To The Yankees
9/23/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Sept. 23, 2010
The New York Yankees summoned former NC State baseball and basketball standout Andrew Brackman to New York on Thursday. He will remain with the big league team for the remainder of the 2010 regular season.
Brackman, selected by the Yankees in the first round of the 2007 MLB First-Year Player Draft, is one of several Yankees farmhands called up to The Bronx to absorb the major league experience over the final two weeks of the regular season.
Brackman, who underwent reconstructive elbow surgery on Aug. 24, 2007, shortly after signing a major league contract with the Yankees, was 10-11 with a 3.90 ERA this season at Tampa (Class A) and Trenton (AA).
Brackman allowed just three earned runs over his final six starts at Trenton. He pitched five innings of one-hit, shutout ball and was the winning pitcher in relief of Andy Pettitte in Trenton’s 3-2 win over Altoona in the first game of the Eastern League Championship Series.
Brackman was 6-4 with a 3.81 ERA as a junior at NC State in 2007. For his three-year career he was 11-7 with a 3.81 ERA and 149 strikeouts in 149 1/3 innings. His best season was as a freshman in 2005 when he went 4-0 with a 2.09 ERA in 10 appearances, all NC State victories.
Brackman also played basketball for two seasons for the Wolfpack. He scored 7.6 points and averaged 3.5 rebounds per game as a sophomore in 2005-06. He averaged 7.4 points and 3.5 boards per game as a freshman in 2004-05.
