TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - Former Mississippi State pitcher Chris Stratton and former Ole Miss second baseman Alex Yarbrough were named first-team All-Americans by Baseball America on Friday.
Stratton was a first round draft pick of the San Francisco Giants and signed with the club earlier in the month.
The Tupelo-native posted an (11-2) record in his final season with the Bulldogs to go along with a 2.38 earned run average. Stratton also struck out 127 batters (including 17 in a game against LSU) and closed out Mississippi State's SEC Tournament championship game.
Yarbrough was a fourth round draft pick of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and signed with the Angels earlier in June.
Yarbrough hit .389 in his final season as a Rebel, the second-highest batting average of any SEC player. He had three homers, 17 doubles and 41 RBI.
2012 BASEBALL AMERICA ALL-AMERICA TEAMS
FIRST TEAM
C Mike Zunino, Florida
1B Chris Serritella, Southern Illinois
2B Alex Yarbrough, Ole Miss
3B Kris Bryant, San Diego
SS Jimmy Rider, Kent State
OF Jeff Gelalich, UCLA
OF Travis Jankowski, Stony Brook
OF James Ramsey, Florida State
DH Josh Ludy, Baylor
UT Marco Gonzales, Gonzaga
SP Andrew Heaney, Oklahoma State
SP Nick Petree, Missouri State
SP Carlos Rodon, North Carolina State
SP Chris Stratton, Mississippi State
RP Robert Benincasa, Florida State
UT Marco Gonzales, Gonzaga
SECOND TEAM
C Kevin Plawecki, Purdue
1B D.J. Hicks, Central Florida
2B Jamodrick McGruder, Texas Tech
3B D.J. Peterson, New Mexico
SS Alex Mejia, Arizona
OF Michael Conforto, Oregon State
OF Mitch Haniger, Cal Poly
OF Brandon Miller, Samford
DH William Carmona, Stony Brook
UT Brian Johnson, Florida
SP Mark Appel, Stanford
SP Kevin Gausman, LSU
SP Kurt Heyer, Arizona
SP Michael Wacha, Texas A&M
RP Jimmie Sherfy, Oregon
UT Brian Johnson, Florida
THIRD TEAM
C Mitchell Garver, New Mexico
1B Goose Kallunki, Utah Valley
2B Brock Hebert, Southeastern La.
3B Trenton Moses, Southeast Mo. State
SS Matt Wessinger, St. John’s
OF Tyler Naquin, Texas A&M
OF Danny Poma, Hofstra
OF Raph Rhymes, LSU
DH Patrick Kivlehan, Rutgers
UT Stephen Piscotty, Stanford
SP Tyler Johnson, Stony Brook
SP Adam Plutko, UCLA
SP Marcus Stroman, Duke
SP Josh Turley, Baylor
RP Michael Morin, North Carolina
UT Stephen Piscotty, Stanford
