Nick Swiney Selected By San Francisco Giants In Second Round Of 2020 MLB Draft
6/11/2020 10:44:00 PM | Baseball
RALEIGH – Junior pitcher Nick Swiney was selected by the San Francisco Giants with the 67th overall pick in the second round of the 2020 Major League Baseball (MLB) on Thursday evening. He joins teammates Patrick Bailey and Will Wilson on the West Coast, as Bailey was drafted on Wednesday by the Giants as the No. 13 overall pick and Wilson was recently traded by the Los Angeles Angels to San Francisco.
Swiney becomes the 20th player in program history to be drafted in the top two rounds. He is also the 112th player to be selected in the MLB Draft under 24th-year head coach Elliott Avent.
After transitioning from a reliever to the #Pack9's ace on the mound this spring, Swiney was named a Collegiate Baseball Second Team All-American. In the shortened season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he led the Wolfpack pitching staff and ACC with a 4-0 record on the mound, compiling a 1.29 earned-run average in 28.0 innings pitched.
The Huntersville, N.C. native held opponents to a .144 batting average, allowing just five extra-base hits all season. He additionally tallied a team-best 42 strikeouts, which ranked 10th in the NCAA this year.
In the team's 6-0 win on Feb. 29 vs. Purdue at the CambriaCollegeClassic, he threw a career-long eight innings and fanned a career-high 15 batters. His 15 strikeouts were the most in a single game by an NC State pitcher since Carlos Rodon on April 25, 2014.
He additionally contributed to the 4-0 shutout win over James Madison on Feb. 14 with seven complete innings and 11 strikeouts, as well as the Pack's 8-2 win vs. Tennessee Tech on Feb. 22 and 6-2 victory at Virginia on March 7.
Swiney becomes the 20th player in program history to be drafted in the top two rounds. He is also the 112th player to be selected in the MLB Draft under 24th-year head coach Elliott Avent.
After transitioning from a reliever to the #Pack9's ace on the mound this spring, Swiney was named a Collegiate Baseball Second Team All-American. In the shortened season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he led the Wolfpack pitching staff and ACC with a 4-0 record on the mound, compiling a 1.29 earned-run average in 28.0 innings pitched.
The Huntersville, N.C. native held opponents to a .144 batting average, allowing just five extra-base hits all season. He additionally tallied a team-best 42 strikeouts, which ranked 10th in the NCAA this year.
In the team's 6-0 win on Feb. 29 vs. Purdue at the CambriaCollegeClassic, he threw a career-long eight innings and fanned a career-high 15 batters. His 15 strikeouts were the most in a single game by an NC State pitcher since Carlos Rodon on April 25, 2014.
He additionally contributed to the 4-0 shutout win over James Madison on Feb. 14 with seven complete innings and 11 strikeouts, as well as the Pack's 8-2 win vs. Tennessee Tech on Feb. 22 and 6-2 victory at Virginia on March 7.
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